Hello folks,
The following email show the exchange among dancers in anAmerican city. I have
anonymzed clues in the message that could identifypeople and places to avoid
further dissention.
My question are for the veterans that have spent yearsand great effort creating
sustainable and unified communities. How can weas a group continue to thrive
when dancers have such blunt disrespect for others?
I ask this question to the list for a simple reason: thecontent of the message
below indicates problems that could deeply divide andhurt a community?
I don’t think this problem is unique to oneplace. On the contrary such
blunt animosity may very well be the normrather than exception.
Constructive comments anyone?
Respectfully,
Amaury
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One last time for those who may be "sitting on thefence" so to speak ...
This weekend, I am offering a series of 5 classes whichare tailored for the
tango communities in and around xxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Some people are tempted by the workshops of xxxxxx xxxxxxxxand xxxxxxxx xxxxx,
which happen to be in part coinciding with myclasses. You can see all the
details of that program, as it was posted onseveral yahoo groups, which I copy
for you for easy reference, at thebottom of my email here.
If you are considering taking their workshops, I suggestyou take a good look
at the way they dance on one of the several videosposted on youtube, and while
you are watching the videos, make sure themusic is loud enough to hear,
because they are supposed to be teachingsome workshops on musicality, too. I
suggest also that you payclose, careful, objective attention to the choice of
the titles they havemade for their workshops. I suggest you ask some questions
fromyourself about these titles in connection with what YOU think our
tangocommunity needs, and what you yourself need in your tango dancing.
xxxxxxand xxxxxxxx and the organizers won't do this for you; you have to do
itfor yourself.
I was hoping that after he visited our community the lasttime, sometime last
winter, xxxxxx xxxxxxx will offer somethingmeaningful this time around. So, I
have read and read again theannouncements about his and his partner's upcoming
visit, looking for aclue as to what their interest is in our tango community
beyond provingthat they have some talent for the dance, and a need for money.
I waslooking for a clue as to a genuine interest on their part in the growthof
our community's UNDERSTANDING of the tango. Unfortunately for xxxxxand
xxxxxxxx and for those of you who will be spending your time andmoney and
energy with them, I have found no sign whatsoever of anysensitivity or respect
for the makeup and the needs of the tangocommunity here in their proposed
upcoming visit. Par for the course.
Straight to the point, there is no doubt in my mind thatanyone who is
receiving this email and who is going to miss my classes infavor of their
workshops, is going to lose on three fronts:
1) missing out on what I have tailored for this community
2) learning material from xxxxxx and xxxxxxxx that isgoing to be largely if
not entirely useless, and that will add to theconfusion that comes with the
deluge of this largely useless material.
We will be losing too: For the next few weeks or months,those who will be
confused, and who may have a thick enough skin to readall this, and still come
back to our classes, will come in and askquestions generated by this
unnecessary confusion, that will take timeand energy to try to answer. We will
of course answer, but even the mostlogical answers will encounter some
resistance as I describe next: pleaseread on, because the next part is the
most important part.
There is another dimension to the loss to those who willwaste their time and
money and energy with xxxxxx and xxxxxxxx:
3) once you submit yourself to the process of trying tolearn what they will
try to teach you, you will have invested more thanmoney, time, and energy. You
will have invested with your feeling andemotions and aspirations and hopes.
That investment is priceless. Youwill want to see that investment pay off NO
MATTER WHAT! And for thatreason, you will be in a position to question even
the most logical andsensible explanations of tango offered to you if those
explanationscontradict what you learnd from xxxxxx and xxxxxxx.
If you don't believe this, I offer you (anyone) who willtake xxxxxx and
xxxxxxxx's workshops, to come to one of my classesafterwards, and show me what
you learned, and be ready to answer somereally, really tough questions, and
prove me wrong if you can!
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