On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Jay Rabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jack wrote: "I also dislike this 30 seconds of chit-chat on the dance floor.
> Just what is its purpose?"
> -
> I heard somewhere that in the early days of tango, the time before the music
> started was the only time that a young man could talk to a young woman out of
> earshot of her chaperons. Obviously this may be pure myth...
Perhaps, but even today in an old-school milonga, single men and
women will be seated separately. So a man and a woman have no
opportunity to converse at the table, it is a no-no (rightly so) to
talk while dancing, which leaves only the time between songs out on
the dance floor to chat.
Huck
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