http://www.mundialdetango.gov.ar/reglamento_e.php
It's a legal document setting forth all the terms and conditions to which every couple is bound. I find a few interesting paragraphs to note: 27. The Jury shall select one winning couple in each category. Although #26 states how the jury scores, on a scale of 1 to 10, it doesn't really matter who receives the highest score according to this paragraph. The Jury selects the winning couple. The scores don't matter even if they are tallied. In this way, the Jury chooses the best couple for publicity purposes, not necessarily the best dancers. The winners of the salon category are always from Argentina. 34. ...and avoid remaining in the same place for too long, in a way that may disrupt the regular circulation of dancers around the dance floor. There no more two-musical measures rule. The jury didn't enforce it anyway, especially in 2006 when Peralta got stuck in one spot with Poberaj for more than ten measures. There are no more than ten couples on the huge stage at one time during a finals round, so anyone can stay in one spot as long as they want to; there's plenty of room. And we wonder why the milongas of BsAs are such a mess? 35. No contestant may raise his/her legs above the knee line. This is a new rule. For what? To allow for boleos (which are really for stage, not salon)? Who's going to be enforcing this one with so many female dancers raising a leg before the cross when the left foot is lifted above the knee? I hope they ask for clarification of this rule before the rounds begin. An improvement would be a rule stating that dancers must keep their feet on or near the floor, the way it should be in salon tango. 40. The first place in each one of the two categories will receive a prize of $7,000 Argentine pesos. This is up from $5,000 last year. The salon finals of the Campeonato Mundial will be held Sunday night, August 26. I'll be reading the results in the newspaper and on the website. The only reason I might have attended this year's event would have been if Jose Maria Velazquez had made it to the finals of the Campeonato Metropolitano. I had the pleasure of dancing with him for several nights in Salon El Pial. He has been dancing for 60 years in the milongas, so his style is probably too out of date for the judges. Janis Kenyon Buenos Aires _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
