Chris, UK wrote >>You've described a group for whom the music is secondary, so no surprise at all that here the curtain's effect is actually detrimental.<<
Actually I've described a group of men who want to dance. They do care about the music, They care about the music a lot. But if the men wait for the music to start, there are no followers left to dance with, and they sit. Once they get a partner they enjoy, they will often hang onto her for several Tandas, and eventually get music they like. This contributes the feeding frenzy when one of these women becomes available. >> The root cause is a DJ that plays a curtain because "its the done thing" rather than being sensitive to whether it's effect is positive or negative in that particular milonga.The DJ could stop using a curtain. Then after every tanda, the dancers will hear what the next music is before there's time for invitations.<< So you are suggesting that the DJ should ignore the Tango customs and codas that members of this list, and Tangueros world wide, hold so dear? That some resident of the United States should ignore the wisdom of the Milongueros of BsAs and try to improve upon or "Amercianize" the way things are done in Argentina? Wow.... _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
