Interesting. Although motorcycle-gangs never been present in Hungary (probably because motorbikes necessary to have the prestige were and are quite expensive, so the majority biker is an intellectual or at least has his own business) there are a bunch of bike lovers among milongueros (actually there is also one milonguera...), while the massive majority of male tango (actually, any kind of partner dance) dancers work in IT or engineering...
Nevertheless, just because tango is (at the moment) danced by mostly intellectuals (outside Argentina) it would be somewhat weird to explicitly exclude all other social classes based on that. In my experience, non-intellectuals have _much_ greater talent for dancing than most intellectuals (in the beginning at least), not to mention that social classes are not what they used to be. If you do something for intellectuals only, it either requires state funding, it is very expensive or it is very low profile. Also, being an intellectual and being social or cultured are not equal for decades now. With salsa (in CE Europe) you can see a trend. Although the people visiting the classes (and especially: venues) are much more diluted in the intellectual sense, it does not stop the salsa scene to be much more organized and the "core people" to be at least as fun to be with as the tango dancers. While they also have their problems, it is a lot easier to initiate a cooperation than among the intellectuals of tango, who mostly end up disagreeing with each other, or just simply not doing anything except talking about what they want (others to do). Cheers, Aron -- Ecsedy Áron *********** Aron ECSEDY Tel: +36 20 66-24-071 http://www.milonga.hu/ http://www.holgyvalasz.hu/ _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l