This got me thinking....When I am in Buenos Aires, I hear tango teachers (mostly from BAires) sit at the milongas and gripe about how the milongas in the US and Europe just can't compare to those in BA. I always hear threats to quit - stop teaching in the US and move back to BA to enjoy real milongas.
I wonder if it is the same in other cities as here - our two local teachers from Argentina are rarely if ever at a milonga. We have no organizers or DJ's who are from BA. Some have never even been to BA, or haven't been in years. Yet we have a lively scene (for our small city), with 5 or more milongas a week and 2 live tango orchestras. In your cities, is it the same? Are Argentines organizing and DJ'ing milongas? I think Chris is correct - good teachers alone cannot make a "tango mecca" I work hard to create milongas here that have a bit of the flavor of BA. But it is hard when too many dancers are unfamiliar with that scene, and make it more like a competition for the next cool step. Lois Donnay Minneapolis On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Chris, UK <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin wrote: >> Boulder is now the go-to mecca for Tango, second only to Buenos Aires. > > Interesting. How many milongas does it have? > Thirty a week, like Berlin? _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
