Ron wrote: > If one cannot travel to Buenos Aires and one wishes to study only with > instructors who are Argentine, be careful in purchasing your product. ... > The overwhelming majority of Argentine tango instructors in the US > amd Europe teach a form of tango that was developed for the stage in > Argentina.
Even in BA, take equal care. Every one of the pre-milonga classes I´ve seen have been in that open-embrace stagey style. The Julio Balmaceda class I saw the other day was a good example. He was teaching exactly the same kind of stuff he does in European festival workshops, bearing no resemblance to the social dancing here. It was a sad sight, expecially when the students (Argentines and foreigners alike) used the first tandas of the milonga to practice and demonstrate their new sequence. I asked a local what she though of this. "His father would be, how you say, spinning in his tomb." I wonder if these people know or care that they are crapping in their own back yard. Don´t they notice so many of their milongas are now half- empty? These people are pissing away their heritage for a fast buck. And when they´ve used it all up, they´ll have neither the tango nor the money to show for it. On the bright side, thank goodness the future of tango does not lie solely in their unfit hands. Chris _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
