--- On Tue, 1/25/11, Anton Stanley <an...@alidas.com.au> wrote: > Personally, I don't prefer internationalisation of tango. > Where every variation or deviation is legitimate. > In the future we might get accustomed to US Tango, > British Tango, Canadian Tango, Turkish Tango, Iranian Tango, > Russian Tango, Mexican Tango etc. Each maybe different; > each legitimate tango.
I dunno, I think that would be kind of cool. Traveling these days isn't as much fun as it was in the old days. Nowadays everything is homogenized. I would like it if I could go to another city and have a distinctly different tango experience (as well as distinct food, distinct language, etc). I could see a different way of looking at tango by visiting another city. That's really the benefit of travel -- that you see that yours is not the only way of looking at things. Travel teaches you that it's possible to live with a different set of assumptions; that takes the edge off a person. At this point there are some regional differences but communities derived from the post-1982 tango renaissance are too young to have really developed their own character. I'm looking forward to different communities really developing their own flavor. _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l