Ming Mar <[email protected]> asked: >I have a question for people who also do other dances: Are >the non-tango people nicer than tango people?
In a short word: Yes. Longer explanation: First off, I am a formally trained ballroom teacher who doesn't teach or dance ballroom much since I drank the Tango Kool-Aid. In the USA, at least, the dance codigos were intentionally structured to make dance more welcoming to beginners. A huge amount of this can be traced back to the Fred Astaire and Aurthur Murray dance school franchises. Americans are very good at customer service and marketing, and these were businesses that made quite an effort to attract at retain new customers. Conversely, I was watching a program on TN ( http://delicast.com/tv/Argentina/TN24Horas ) on business development in Argentina, and the porteño panelists really hammered the point that customer service in Argentina sucked... A few of the rules that the ballroom schools came up with, and most dances in the USA still follow, were: 1)Do not say "no" to an invitation 2)Do not ask someone you don't know (especially someone much better than you) more than once a night 3)Only dance once dance in a row. 4)For professionals - find the wallflowers and get them dancing. Whether these rules make people "nicer" or not, I don't know, but they make the beginner's experience more pleasant. IMHO, YMMV _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
