At the milongas I have, I do just that....and repeatedly ask, at the milonga and in my periodic e-mails, that folks respect the line of dance, keep the "fancy stuff" in the corners or the middle and take the teaching somewhere else entirely. I got/get a fair amount of abuse and sarcasm, but the behavior is getting better. The confusing part for me, is that the "offenders" are often experienced people who complain to me when "the rules" are not being followed.....and, if I have to be scrupulously honest, there are times when I am not as careful as I should be either. I think it is actually a vicious cycle - experienced people get annoyed at the new people so they dance around them, the new folks look at the experienced folks careening around the dance floor so they think it's okay, they start doing it, the experienced folks get more annoyed, and so on, and so on, and so on.....
Have you joined the Buffalo Argentine Tango Society Yahoo! group yet? It's easy, and the best way to make sure you know what we're doing and what's going on with the Argentine tango in and around Buffalo......go to www.yahoo.com > select Groups > search for Buffalo Argentine Tango Society > follow the directions to join BATS_tango. Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: Trini y Sean (PATangoS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 5:17 pm Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Milonga 101 -- conversation between dances > It's a constant source of amazement to me that dancers, > not tourists, the cleaners, or someone who stumbled into the place by mistake, but dancers! - will stand in a group of 4 or 5 on a dance floor and hold a $^%*(* discussion while people dance around them. Perhaps they are urgently discussing the finer points of milonga etiquette? > How's this for a solution - ask them to move the conversation off of the floor. Trini de Pittsburgh PATangoS - Pittsburgh Argentine Tango Society Our Mission: To make Argentine Tango Pittsburgh’s most popular social dance! http://patangos.home.comcast.net/ _________________________________________________________________________ ___________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
