http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoDwCWl3mu0 Fin Tango competion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxZoV3t61c 60 minutes report, examples start about 3:10
Looks ballroomy, from what I can tell from Youtube videos has big orchestration with horns and percussion, marchy sound. El Stevito de Gainesville On 7/20/2010 1:11 PM, Lois Donnay wrote: > What is Finnish Tango? What does it look like? Are there really red and > green lights? People are always asking me what the difference is. > > Lois Donnay > Minneapolis > ----- Original Message ----- > From:<rcgi...@aol.com> > To:<tango-l@mit.edu> > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 9:39 AM > Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Tango marathons > >> Until recently, I would guess the annual Tangomarkkinat in Seinajoki, >> Finland. When I was there in 2004, it ran for five days, 10:00AM to >> 4:00AM daily. Most of the music was live, too. Very strange to dance so >> close to the arctic circle, too. It never really got dark. >> >> Sorry to report the Tangomarkkinat has been in a bit of a decline lately. >> They've cut the last day and attendance is down from the 2003 peak of >> 121,000. According to John of Bristol, they will have a formal Argentine >> program in addition to the Finnish stuff. >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Tango-L mailing list > Tango-L@mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l > > _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l