>> > Why are you people in the US so obsessed with classes? Frankly, Chris, the only one I can see here who is obsessed with anything is you with your obsession about not taking classes. You keep harping on the same subject, over and over again, and I have yet to see a feasible explanation of yours on what is bad about taking classes, and a description of how you learned to dance without ever taking classes. I have also yet to meet a dancer who can dance tango without ever having learned it from a teacher, just because he was born with "Tango running in his blood", and this is the truth, no matter what Argentines will have you believe. > >> Uhm......because we have seen what inbreeding in a small geographical >> area produces? > > If you don't like BA-style tango, then there are easier ways to avoid it.
I think, you have not paid much attention as to who Nancy is. >> I'm so glad to see that list members are stepping up to say negative >> things about Argentine Tango in the US > > Can we take that to mean at least one US person agrees class obsession is > negative? ;) getting your hopes up, eh? At least one in the US and at least one in the UK... > >> and this apparently overwhelmingly popular and positive event. > > Overwhelmingly popular with overwhelming class-goers, no doubt. as I said, on and on and on. One starts to suspect you have to compensate for or justify something, running around with the torch for non-lesson tango all the time. But what > about regular dancers? how do you define the "regular dancer", Chris? I am under the impression, you mean those guys who have never learned dance technique or taken a three months crash course at some cheap studio and then were off to troll the milongas. Berlin has quite a few of those. At least in BA, the men who could not dance would dance with other men before they dared to impose themselves on the women. (no more, i am afraid) Let's hear from some of them, please. if my impression is based on misunderstanding, I am open to being enlightened by you, but otherwise, would you PLEASE change the subject every once in a while, Chris, or is that too much to ask? _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
