so true. I remember a personal experience here in melbounre. one of the local dancers (male) who used to not waste a single second of the music, had just come back from BsAs. we started the tanda and at the end of the first song we let go and i mentioned somethin along the lines of' its good to have you back in Melb'. As the music started up again, i leaned forward. 'No, no', he said , as he pulled back , 'in BsAs they dont start dancing straight away, they chat for a while...'. I humoured him and we resumed dancig when he deemed it appropriate :) . I do still dance with this person occasionally, but i havent been able to take him seriously as a person or as a dancer ever since this incident.
On 26 May 2012 08:53, Huck Kennedy <tempeh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Tango 22 <tang...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sergio comments............ > > > The conversation we are discussing is very brief, a few seconds, > > > the duration depends on when the couple in front of you starts > > > moving, it does (it should) not disrupt the ronda at all. > > > > This is why one wonders if this pleasant custom has become a boorish > affectation, > > Alas, here in the US, I fear you are right. Often at festivals > I'll see a couple rudely continuing to obliviously chat away two > minutes into the song, and if you dare to challenge their rudeness by > either saying something or passing them, they give you this > condescending look that says, "Did you just start dancing yesterday > (as opposed to our a year ago, we're seasoned veterans!)? Haven't you > ever been to Buenos Aires, we read somewhere that you are *supposed* > to recite your entire life history or decide the next presidential > election or discuss all the movies you've seen in the previous six > months before resuming the dance, or you're not a real tanguero." > > Huck > _______________________________________________ > Tango-L mailing list > Tango-L@mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l > -- Yours in dance dementia, Niki _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l