----You are not totally alone, but all of you should stay home. ----They are probably doing it to make you leave. I would. ----Are you sure it is tango you want to learn? ----Cheers (and please don't move to New York),
==== "How to Grow the Tango Community" is a common theme I come across in Tango communities. This thread was started by a member expressing a preference for alternative music like "west coast swing." His post saying he finds "much of the traditional tango music, whiney and uninspiring" was turned by another lister into a "bias and hatred of tango." IMHO, Tango is not a good "entry level dance:" it is simply too difficult (though not impossible) to learn as a first dance. So it might be, that attracting dancers with prior experience from other dances would be a good way to "grow the community." However, I find that when people come from other dances and bring their slightly different skill set and preferences for music, etc, they are greeted by a small but very vocal group with the unfriendly and unwelcoming statements seen above. No wonder most don't stick around. The statements above even contain a version of my least favorite and often heard phrase: "That is NOT Tango!" While I find that most of the members of the Tango Communities I've experienced are warm and welcoming people, there are enough vocally passionate ones who project a less than friendly atmosphere to newbies, who simply leave to find someplace where they are more welcome. All of this is IMHO, YMMV and all that. Flames Cheerfully ignored. _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
