----- Original Message ----
> From: Larry Richelli <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Mon, October 19, 2009 12:19:50 PM
> >Traditional
> tango dancers do not mind to have separated milongas, as most of them
> consider that Nuevo dancers disrupt their >dancing.
>
> This is good. I just wish we could have separate festivals. For instance,
> Denver
> is advertised as a close embrace festival but man, it is not longer this way.
> You have two or three guys that can dance open nuevo pretty good and 20 other
> guy that want to be just like them that can't. This has really screwed up
> this
> festival and the line of dance, even though they have an alt milonga on one
> afternoon.
I've been to Denver twice, in 2004 and 2005, and to San Diego in 2007 (same
festival concept). Navigation was pretty good in Denver the times I went, but
some of the locals in San Diego didn't realize it was a festival for social
dancing rather than showing how well you could weave quickly in and out of the
line of dance. Now San Diego 2010 has 2 prominent nuevo instructors scheduled.
One has to wonder if Denver will follow suit. It's beginning to look like there
may no longer be any festivals in the US where a tango milonguero dancer can
find solitude away from the nuevo invasion. It looks like we will have no other
option than to go to Buenos Aires to find milongas with a supportive social
dancing atmosphere. That wouldn't be bad if it weren't so far away.
Ron
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