On 17/09/2010 00:43, Ellen L. Saunders wrote: > In BA a milonga is a social event where everyone is politely seated to > enjoy an evening with friends. It is not an athletic competition for > show offs.
That's a valid lament: outside of BsAs there isn't the same distinction between a "practica" and a "milonga" (although to be fair some people who've recently been to BsAs tell me that while the distinction does exist, you can't actually trust the *name*). Pet peeve: "teaching/lecturing" at a milonga, in the middle of the ronda. I sometimes really can't understand why the unfortunate (usually female) vistim doesn't kick the offender where it hurts. But I think a milonga (in the same venerable tradition as the "thé dansant" and "bal-musette"), alas, has become quite an alien concept in many of the current "rat-race" and quite competitive cultures. People just don't "grok" the concept any longer. Ah - sipping a tea in the "Pianofabriek" while Alfredo Marcucci and his orchestra (including Eva Wolff) was playing music in perfect symbiosis with the dancers,...sadly, even here much that is left are mere memories. _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
