Burak has something of a point WRT to the "I show, you do" style of teaching. However, if you come to an "I show, you do" class with strong fundamentals there is no problem. If you don't have strong fundamentals, then your weaknesses as a dancer will be on full display to the knowing eye. Either way you will get something out of it.
Regarding the tango music industry, there's a reason why recorded music dominates. It works for dancing in ways that modern tango groups either can't (no skills) or won't (playing for themselves, not dancers) reproduce. I'll go so far as to say that much music being marketed as tango music is either club music or classical music with banoneon, So, we are indeed supporting the modern tango music industry: we don't buy it if we can't tango to it, so these bands should get their stuff together and produce music dancers like tangoing to. Doesn't sound sentimental to me. Finally, we have lots of tango schools in the US. Metin Yazir's chain, and several places in NYC where many tango teachers on as friendly basis with each other work. The real problem with formal systems of teaching is that they tend to emphasize a non-existent One True Tango over the tango appropriate to the student. The cottage industry model of tango instruction at least allows a wider diversity of styles than if each city was dominated by a few big schools. Christopher _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
