--- On Fri, 9/4/09, dierdre black <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: dierdre black <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Tango-L] World Tango Champions Hiroshi and Kyoko > To: "dierdre black" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 5:13 PM > Dear TAngoL....thanks, for posting > this.....as I see it, I realize there needs to be another > parentheses, for clarity, after the word "vitality". I don't > suppose there's a way you can edit that, from your > end? Thanks, db > > --- On Fri, 9/4/09, dierdre black <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > From: dierdre black <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [Tango-L] World Tango Champions Hiroshi > and Kyoko > > To: "Tango L" <[email protected]>, > "Tango List" <[email protected]> > > Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 4:56 PM > > Yep, more "tango snobs", eh? They're > > apparently, everywhere, like the "real tango". The > > context is everywhere in the city! It knows no > special > > barrio/milonga, runs through the blood of the > rioplatense > > people and cannot be denied, whether they know the > steps or > > not: the secadas and pasos they use every day, just > to > > move through the streets; the taxi driver singing > "Volver", > > while driving me to a practica; the old, finely > dressed > > couple that meets every Wed. afternoon, in Ideal, to > enjoy > > one another's embrace, for a few magical hours; the > babies > > hearing tango from inside the womb. It's all an > > organic, external expression of the internal, criollo > > culture and those who happen to appreciate/study > > it....wherever they happen to dance....Japan, Paris > or > > Sunderland. (Not to mention the consistently > revivifying > > role of "foreigners" in the history of tango...always > better > > to "mix the bloodlines"(criollo), for more strength > and > > vitality. Gotta love Woody > > Allen's piquant, perfect and true comment, > though(although > > I think it was first coined by Groucho Marx)....sooo > funny!! > > Reminds me of another funny writer...WS, with his > > pithy/poignant "What fools these mortals > be!"(Midsummer's > > Night's Dream?) > > > > dblack > > > > --- On Thu, 9/3/09, Brick Robbins <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > From: Brick Robbins <[email protected]> > > > Subject: Re: [Tango-L] World Tango Champions > Hiroshi > > and Kyoko > > > To: [email protected] > > > Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 9:52 PM > > > > They say that they avoid to go > > > to downtown milongas, since , in their own words > " > > they are > > > full of foreign visitors". On the nieghbourhood > > milogas, > > > Kyoko says that is by looking how the vetran > couples > > dance, > > > is where the real tango is.< > > > > > > I find this statement amusing.... or > > something.....This > > > "foreign" > > > couple doesn't like dancing where the > "foreigners" > > > dance..... > > > > > > So to loosely quote Woody Allen "They'd never > join a > > club > > > that would > > > allow people like them to become members?" > WTF? > > > > > > Brick Robbins > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Tango-L mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tango-L mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
