Trini de Pittsburgh says:
> a lot of people have been saying - that the dancing, specifically navigation,
> has grown worse in BsAs over the past few years.
That is absolutely my observation. Or maybe my tolerance to bad
navigation has decreased so I notice it more, but I really don't think
th
> Several years ago, somebody wrote on the list that you shouldn?t take
> photos or videos at milongas because some people don?t want to be seen
> with partners they aren?t married to. I thought this was strange but
> then the Argentine culture is different from the American culture.
Yes, I've see
Trini y Sean (PATangoS) wrote:
> So you basically made her self-conscious about her walk for the rest of the
> night.
Not to mention that if she didn't cross, it may well be because the cross
wasn't lead properly (or depending on your point of view, not-a-cross was
lead but not on purpose)...
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Fairly consistently in BA is the 2-1-2-1 approach. Even at a 'nuevo'
milonga. However, at the nuevo milongas, they add in a single tanda
of 'nuevo' music for 1 of the tango tandas every 2nd cycle if that is
1 cycle described...
La Viruta, same cylcle, but they will play cylces of 6 songs in each
ARGENTINE DANCERS HAVING NAVIGATION PROBLEMS Of course they have them.
Argentines are people too. They make mistakes, come in all levels of
skill, and so on. It's idiotic to go to BsAs and expect perfection.
LEVELS OF SKILL IN ARGENTINA The average level of skill in Argentina
is lower than in
Maybe, just maybe, like everywhere and everyone, there is a bell curve here...
Are Argentines exempt because they are Argentine? No, I really don't
think so...
So, 10% are useless no hopers that even with lessons can't dance...
Then 15% are beginners
etc to 10% that are professional level and
>
> > 5. Miscellaneous
> > DJs seem to follow the 2-1-2-1 approach to music. 2 tandas of tango, 1
> > tanda waltz, 2 tandas tango, 1 tanda of milonga. In the States, the
> > pattern seems to be
> > 4-1-4-1.
>
Where are you dancing? In the NE (Boston, NYC, Montreal) I have heard either
2-1-2-1 or 2
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From: "Michael"
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:41 AM
To: "Tango-L List"
Subject: [Tango-L] Report from Buenos Aires #7: Milonga Review
> 3. Milonga de los Consagrados @ central region leonesa (This is the
> same location for Mi Refugio and Ni
>
> Sergio Vandekier wrote:
>
> To exchange money you may use banks, Casas de cambio ("Cambio", or ATM
> machines.
> The ATM machine may charge a fee if you use cards from a different banck, it
> will not charge a fee if you use a branch of the bank that isued the card.
> (This is the same as a
My vacation is coming to an end. Instead of just dropping names of
milongas, I´m posting my review. Hopefully others will do the same.
I. Lo de Celia
The floor is square with a line that goes around the perimeter. The
table set up is Men
--- On Mon, 4/20/09, Jack Dylan wrote:
>
> I was recently there for 6 weeks and am full of admiration
> for the way the Argentines are able to dance comfortably in crowded
> conditions. It's what I'm seeking to emulate and I'm
> certainly not going to blame anyone else for the problems I encoun
Ron, enjoyed your perspective. Please expand on last comment:
> I believe it is also correct to say that the quality of tango dancing
> in the US has deteriorated over the last several years.
>From my limited experience here in Portland and a couple of other West Coast
>areas, I think dance ski
I thought Michael made it clear at least in a subsequent post that the problems
he described were not ones that he experienced, but that he witnessed. It's
difficult to speculate how he might have contributed to that.
J
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Re
Club Gricel has a long and narrow dance floor, the smallest width to
length ratio of any milonga dance floor in Buenos Aires that I know
of. The length of the floor can accommodate a lot of dancers in a
moving line of dance; however there is less mobility in the narrow
middle, so it is more likely
> From: Trini y Sean (PATangoS) patan...@yahoo.com
>
> Given that quite a few people on this list have also acknowledge the recent
> problems in BsAs, I think attacking Michael for his dance skills was
> unnecessary.
>
That might well be true but I'm fairly confident in saying that Michael
It seems to me that Michael's report confirms what a lot of people have been
saying - that the dancing, specifically navigation, has grown worse in BsAs
over the past few years. Michael reported about a specific milonga. It could
have been, as some have suggested, a particularly bad night. H
Several years ago, somebody wrote on the list that you shouldn´t take
photos or videos at milongas because some people don´t want to be seen
with partners they aren´t married to. I thought this was strange but
then the Argentine culture is different from the American culture.
An Argentine man, who
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