I (as you know, NOT a nuevo enthusiast) have seen Homer Ladas dance very simply and nicely on the smallest floor in San Franciso on a number of occasions and with various partners. It takes experience and skill to adapt from nuevo to social dancing, but mainly the right attitude . . . Barbara
On 17/01/2011 01:19 p.m., Sandhill Crane wrote: > --- On Sat, 1/15/11, Brick Robbins<[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > Hmm, where are you dancing, by the way? I see (in western > North America) something rather different ... the self- > proclaimed milonguero types are at least well-behaved > (whatever you might think about their devotion to the one > true tango). The well-behaved tango nuevo enthusiast, on > the other hand, is almost a theoretical construct. Yes, > they could modify what they're doing to accommodate others. > But they just don't bother. Why should they? Their partners > and their friends don't care, the organizers say nothing, > and the only people who complain are idiots like me who > count for nothing. > > Aside from people from identifiable camps, I'm leaving out > the ones who are either inexperienced or perennially clueless; > not much to say about that in either case. > >> I think it has a lot more to do with attitude and respect >> than the shape of the embrace. > Agreed. > >> "Can't we just all get along" > Well, I'm reserving my judgement about that. > I try to be considerate, but we can get along only to > the extent that others are willing to return the favor. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
