With the talk of some dancers spoiling the close embrace San Diego tango festival, I thought this edited response to a question I had on the advertised close embrace Phoenix tango festival is worthwhile relating:
"....... there is good and proper instruction. .... And by setting a good example in our dancing. We are not making this a "closed" event. We are not planning on "controlling" the event. Rather we are trying to set the exemplary stage for the softer and gentler side of tango close embrace.............close embrace change the dancing in Denver and San Diego and I dream of exposing Phoenix and Arizona to more of the softer close embrace style of dancing...........come knowing this is not an closed elite event but an opportunity to show those without as much exposure to close embrace what they are missing. Hence my plan for a bit larger floor than typical for close embrace." So instead of excluding the gate crashers, seems that Phoenix wants to expose and hopefully educate the masses to close embrace. This is an interesting development don't you think? Since the problems of bad dancing as related by this list seems to occur mostly outside of BsAs, maybe more festivals should promote themselves as "Close Embrace X Tango Festival", rather than just "X Tango Festival". Vince in Melbourne _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
