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Topics of the day:

  1. The Dark Side of BA tango versus Europe
  2. Tango in  China??





Date:    Tue, 16 May 2000 02:31:21 -0500
From:    Naomi Bennett <Naomiben  @SWBELL.NET>
Subject: The Dark Side of BA tango versus Europe

Thanks for the blunt talk about reality.  I haven't been observing enough
of the BA milongas with a sharp eye  long enough to see all the buying and
selling but I have received my share of business cards.

I have been to Europe and BA several times for tango.  At this point, I am
preferring Europe to BA in general.  It's more clean and honest with less
taboos in general.  Less hustle, more friendships. And the men dance very
well and there is less bias on age there. Women asking men is OK and the
money hustle isn't there.

I have been exploring NYC tango this month but SF, Portland and Montreal
are on my list for tango experiences too.  I can't get over how many
foreigners come to NYC to work and dance tango there!.  Over half of my
dances are with people from other countries.  NYC tango is like the United
Nations.  And the city is like its own little country.  It's not quite like
the USA, it's a world unto itself.  There is a European flavor to the city
but it's also very hip with people of extreme character there.  The people
are a trip.  I have a very good tanda  with a German man that wore a robe
down to his ankles and a beautiful metal necklace.  He was straight but
liked to dress in his own way.  And he danced milongero-trapie-close
embrace tango very well.  Met a Brussels couple last week, danced with an
Egyptian and a Puerto Rican and two Argentines, only one native New
Yorker.  They are starting tango in Central Park soon for the summer on
Saturdays, can't wait for that!

Naomi in Austin, TX

At 01:48 PM 5/13/00 -0400, Cheri wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>Well, looks like I have to chime in on this one.
>I understand what Norma is talking about. (In fact, we were in BsAs
>at the same time last month.) And it somehow ties in with all those
>posts about Janis Kenyon's Rent-A-Dancer suggestions and from the
>people disappointed with CITA.
>
>When I got home from this, my fourth trip to Argentina, I remembered
>my adventures as fascinating and fun as always, but this time I saw
>  "the dark side."
>
>What I saw in the milongas of BsAs was that everyone,
>and I mean everyone, was either buying or selling, and many were
>doing both. My eyes had been closed to this before.
>
>On my other three trips, especially the first one two years ago,
>it was all so wonderful and artful and everyone just loved the
>tango like I do (well even at my age and life-experience I can
>be a little naive and gee-whiz). I observed and participated in
>the Romance of Tango in Buenos Aires, the Real Thing.
>Wow.
>
>Now two years later I saw, sure the love and skill of tango, but
>also the ambition, desperation, insecurity, frustration,
>poverty, buying and selling of favors and dancing, jealousy,
>backstabbing, deceit, lying, people using people, manipulation,
>self-centeredness, ego, ego, ego--and greed for both money and attention.
>
>Cherie
>Los Angeles

Naomi Bennett
Austin, TX





Date:    Tue, 16 May 2000 14:36:09 -0700
From:    Al & Barbara <batango  @SLIP.NET>
Subject: Tango in  China??

Does anyone know if there is any Argentine tango in Shanghai or Beijing? We will
be in China from May 31-June 13.
                                            Al & Barbara Garvey


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