My favorite subject! A buddy and I (will mostly "I") used to talk about this a lot.
If you narrow the search to people who are passionate about it, perhaps obsessed by it, dance (or take classes) every week or at least once or twice a month... I will start in the U.S... Take Denver...I would estimate 200-300 dancers there that fit this "passionate" category ...although this figure might be high... Let's use 200 for the "average" large city... Here's a rough table... Denver 200 Seattle 500 Portland 500 San Francisco 500 Los Angeles 200 San Diego 100 Phoenix/Tuscon 100 Austin 50 Dallas 50 Houston 50 Chicago 100 St. Louis 50 Baton Rouge/New Orleans 50 Birmingham 50 Atlanta 100 Miami 200 Ann Arbor 100 New York 200 Boston 200 Small towns x 50 states 500 "Passionate" Total 3800 Round up.... 5000 5000 in the U.S. means about 100 people for each of the 50 states...or more like 250 people in 20 states...which sounds about right... Now remember, this is the "passionate" group that is jonesing for tango every week... I would guess there are another 5000 that are playing with tango...taking classes...going away...coming back...maybe or maybe not going to milongas... So, let's say 10,000 total in the U.S. (snapshot right now) are dancing tango in some way/shape/form. Would it be accurate to say the same for the entirety of Europe and Asia? 20,000 so far... Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Isla de Pantelleria, etc...everything else we are missing... add 5k...up to 25000... South America...outside of Argentina...say what...2000?...27000 And the big question...Argentina and Buenos Aires...at least 10000? Less? 5000? Same as the U.S.? 32000? Just a really rough estimate SWAG...my buddy and I always guessed 30,000 to 50,000 world wide have some exposure to Argentine Tango...perhaps it's more like 20,000-30,000... I would say you are looking at 5000-10000 who are passionate about it...dancing every week... This would be my guess....? Not very many in the scheme of things...but that's the way we want it, right? _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
