A lot has been said about Stage Tango en la salon vs Social Tango, and there is a lot of not-so-civil discourse about the shape of the embrace and what constitutes "authentic" Argentine tango, which in reality, depends on which era and which barrio you are using as a standard.
In my way of looking a things, there are really only two important types of tango 1)Social Tango - Where one respects the other people in the room 2)Anti-Social Tango, where one is primarily concerned with one's self, or ones partnership. I have been egregiously run into many times by "Susana-Miller-trained square-close-embrace-only, downtown-milonguero-style, anything-else-is-not-tango" anti-social leaders who loudly and often complain about "nuevo dancers." I have had many very comfortable tandas dancing near "open embrace nuevo" social leaders, who transition to something more compact as the floor gets crowded. I think it has a lot more to do with attitude and respect than the shape of the embrace. "Can't we just all get along" _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
