I must say that Phil's post gave me a chuckle. I imagine that his post got many folks' knickers in a knot. I wonder how many people ignored or forgot the initial warning "hey, don't take my comments too seriously!"? Oh well....
Tradition. Very powerful. Worth killing for, worth dying for. Or perhaps that's a touch too extreme. But certainly worth insulting a person, flaming a person as it were, for even mentioning, as a possibility, some deviation from the all holy traditions. Traditions are comfortable. And as the old saying goes, why try to fix something that isn't broke(n), forgetting I think, that old chestnut, the more things change, the more they remain the same. There is a powerful intention in most folks to return to our "birth place", to grasp and hold close to our breasts that which started it all - our Motherland (so to speak). A Zeitgeist, a Cynosure of tango: Buenos Aires. And all that is well and good. I can "respect" Tradition, appreciate its "purpose". It is the "religious" intensity of some of the adherents to "the codes" that have squelched any desire I may have had to visit Buenos Aires. (As an aside, was not Paris the midwife of tango; that without Paris, tango would have been a still birth of Buenos Aires? Hmmm. Or that the waltz, broke tradition by being the first alternative music to be danced using the "steps" of tango - or was tango still in its youth and therefore not yet rigid in its traditions and able to accept alternative music? Hmmmm.) Anyway... Thanks Phil for your not too serious comments. Light, Love, Passion, Compassion, Dwain _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
