> Tango22 wrote: > > Is it fair to say this is how exported Tango developed in the > > past into ballroom etc., and may be doing so again? > Alexis Cousein [email protected] replied:
> No, I don't think it's doing so again. > Personally, I think it's already happened. It's not develping into ballroom, but the vast majority of the tango that I see outside Argentina bears such a little resemblance to what I see in BsAs that it's becoming difficult to identify it as the same dance. Yes, many of us visit BsAs and try to learn and dance tango in the traditional 'Argentine way' with the milongueros as our example. But, when we return to our home countries, we're the odd ones out. Everyone else is dancing a salon style, pseudo social tango as taught by a constant stream of young Argentine performers. And, for clarity, when I say the tango of BsAs, I'm referring to the tango at traditional milongas. Jack _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
