Long live the cabeceo!
It protects everyone. The tradition developed for good reasons, as did the
other milonga codes.
The communication involved is uncomplicated body language. Difficult to
teach? What's so hard about it? As long as you can make eye contact with
another person, you can do it.
I have turned offers of dances down, because I don't feel anything for that
set of songs/tunes and consequently will not do it justice. I will however
promise to dance the next tanda that "turns me on".
This leads me to ask a question:-
Has anyone else noticed that some people seem to dance
Another problem I've witnessed is a man approaching a group of ladies,
extending his hand directly in front of the lady he's asking to dance with and
getting turned down so he simply moves to the next in line and asks her to
dance? All of the ladies know that she wasn't his first choice and h
There is another travelling tango teacher in Germany. Marcelo Alvarez de
Argentina :-)
I didn't find much about him over the web, he seems to be a folclore dancer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oemc22NPk5g
Does somebody know him? Does he have a qualification as a tango teacher beyond
being ar
I've been following the debates on Tango-L for a year and a half.
Most dramatic for me, has been the clash between Nuevo and Traditional styles
of dance.
The topic becomes even more confused when one observes the similarities
between the two approaches..Nuevo is based on Traditional (so it says) a
""In a setting where men are allowed to invite directly, why should
women be not?
Hey! We're living in the 20th century. Why should women not be allowed
to invite a man, rather than sit around all night, because they're not
noticed or unknown or because nobody knows how to use the Cabeceo in
> From: roger
> Some people will dance to
> every tanda., indiscriminately. > >
Perhaps they just love to dance and/or enjoy
a wider taste in tango music than you do.
Jack
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In a message dated 6/9/2009 9:12:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
ro...@websa.com.au writes:
Has anyone else noticed that some people seem to dance to everything
In reference to that sentence on your post, I have seen dancers dancing
even to the National Anthon music (very common expressio
> From: Mario sopel...@yahoo.com
> In other words..please, have
> patience and wait, ladies.
>
Just one or two questions, Mario. Firstly, has any
woman at a milonga, ever asked you to dance?
If yes, how did you reply?
Jack
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> From: Mario sopel...@yahoo.com
> > How can we get the two (Social + Show) under the same roof and co
> > operating
> with each other
> >
We can't and why should we? Social dancing is for sharing the dance floor with
many other couples and improvising figures to suit the space
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Jack Dylan wrote:
>
>> From: Mario sopel...@yahoo.com
>
>> > How can we get the two (Social + Show) under the same roof and co
>> > operating
>> with each other
>> >
>
> We can't and why should we? Social dancing is for sharing the dance floor with
> many
> Nuevo dances should develop their own name, but let me suggest one
> that was mentoned on another list: NUEVILONGA. This name is not only
> accurate, but it is really cool!!
It has EVIL in it!
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On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Tango Society of Central Illinois <
tango.soci...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I see a simple solution, but it requires agreement and cooperation
> among dancers.
>
> Nuevo and tango de salon events should be kept separate. Nuevo dances
> can be held on large floors where t
--- On Sat, 6/6/09, hbboog...@aol.com wrote:
> Another problem I've witnessed is a man approaching a group of ladies,
> extending his hand directly in front of the lady he's asking to dance with
> and getting turned down so he simply moves to the next in line
> and asks her to dance? All of t
--- On Tue, 6/9/09, Endzone 102 wrote:
>> This particular horse has been beaten to
> death, raised from the dead,
> turned into dog food, eaten, re-purposed into fertilizer,
> had grass grown in
> it, eaten by the next horse in the chain to be beaten to
> death.
>
> -Greg G
Unfortunately
You'd like to save the social dance? Go look at what that is. Not
segregated. 1920s, 30s the big social dance era had all types of dancing at
social events. It's time to stop the compartmentalization and segregation
society seems to be heading towards. Totally xenophobic! Whatever happened
to a re
Martin N. touched on this topic in his post and I'd like to re-post my
question from
a few months back. This is directed to all and any who host/organize
milongas in the US:
Why do you feel it necessary to keep the room so dark?
I never received any responses to that question so I'm postin
This is probably not a secret to anyone -- there are milongas where lights are
turned up at the end of the tanda and turned down after the first 30 seconds
(or so) of the next tanda. It should not take a rocket scientist to figure this
one out.
===
seek, appreci
On 09/06/2009, at 3:23 AM, Nussbaum, Martin wrote:
> If a woman turns
> down the invite, whether verbal or cabaceo, in a definitvely cold
> manner, such as slowly shaking her head no, why would you ever want to
> ask that woman again ? Let her dance with Gary Barn.
But that was not what I was ta
Someone wrote:
>
> Nuevo and tango de salon events should be kept separate.
> ...
And someone else wrote:
>
> It's just not ever going
> to happen.
You might think its "not ever going to happen", but in fact it
happens a lot, and pretty successfully. Particular milongas get a
reputatio
To everybody,
A very basic question - should Tango be danced mostly to the rhythm or the
melody?
Jack
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Beginners - rhythm.
Pro - combination.
Sent from my iPhone, from somewhere...
On 10/06/2009, at 4:18 PM, Jack Dylan wrote:
>
> To everybody,
>
> A very basic question - should Tango be danced mostly to the rhythm
> or the melody?
>
> Jack
>
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