Re: [TANGO-L] "Deep Tango": Grab your boots and a shovel...

[Stephen Brown <Stephen.P.Brown @DAL.FRB.ORG>]

Sounds like the debates over which style is authentic...

Sean wrote:
>Now imagine that one dancer prefers just one of the
>lights, and spends the entire evening dancing exactly
>below it. ... [I]t is a
>big deal to the guy who has "discovered" the best
>light. So he starts to recruit his friends to join him
>there. Pretty soon, there is a big crowd of his
>disciples jostling for position under the "true"
>light, ...

>Meanwhile, someone else becomes jealous of the first
>guy's influence. (He now has such a strong following,
>that he is selling space under "his" light.)  So the
>second guy picks one of the other lights, and declares
>it the best. If he is a good salesman, he gathers his
>own crowd.

>Pretty soon, instead of a nice party, the dance floor
>is split into angry groups, each touting the
>superiority of their own light. Any newcomers are
>dragged into the center of whichever group catches
>them first, so that they can't see any of the others.

With best wishes,
Steve