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There are 3 messages totalling 95 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. tango customs
2. Fwd: Tango auf Kreta
3. MILONDA DE JEANNE WITH GABRIELA & DIEGO LADEVEZE
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 13:20:40 +0200
From: Rosalia Galassi <lia @INTERNET.ROADRUNNER.COM>
Subject: tango customs
hello list,
I have followed with interest the recent postings about what is and isn't
appropriate in asking somebody to dance.
As a follower I usually do not ask leaders for a dance; I'm preatty
confortable with the " old fashoned " sistem of waiting to be asked, I
also usually accept invitations to dance, I try to weed out unwanted
invitations by making it hard for that person to ask me.
I do not think that it is unappropriate for a woman to ask a man to
dance, ( as a twentieth cetury woman I think we should have equal right to
ask ) but very often I have this under-the-skin feeling that it is not
done, it would be frowned upon.
So as I said I'm usually confortable with waiting to be asked, but I'm
also usually dancing in one particular tango comunity, where I know and
I'm friends with almost everybody.
The problems start when I travel to other tango comunities where I know
wery few people or nobody at all. I recenly was at a milonga in Milan
Italy where I did not dance a single dance all night. I had asked at the
entrance if it was all right for women to ask men to dance, and I had been
discouraged from doing so.
By the time I left I was furious with the !!* @*&!! convention of having to
wait to be asked ( by the way, I live in the states but I'm italian so it
wasn't a problem of not understanding the language or the culture.)
My suggestion is that if a tango comunity adopts the tango costume of
having the leaders doing the asking, it should also teach its leaders good
manners, and have them care for the wellfare ( or welldancing ) of all the
followers, expecially the ones who are new or visiting from outside.
Does anybody have other ideas or suggestions ?
Rosalia
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:19:01 -0500
From: Aristotelis Grammatikakis <arigr @HUGO.SMFA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Tango auf Kreta
That is interesting.
Tango in my island organised by German guys.
And it is even more funny that probably I won't be able to attend
since I don't think I'll be returning to Crete before June.
Btw, Plakias is Plakias not Palakias.
Oh, well.
Atleast its a good sign that somebody is interested in tangoing
in the beauty of Crete. Just get there before the war starts!
A.
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 18:19:35 EST
From: Jeanne Hill <GeneJeanne @AOL.COM>
Subject: MILONDA DE JEANNE WITH GABRIELA & DIEGO LADEVEZE
Dear List:
Gabriella and Diego will give the class from 8:30 to 9:30 pm on Saturday,
April 10, in Lafayette, CA. Back from their three-month South American tour
where they presented the show of their own creation ''Tango Romantico,''
Gabriela and Diego will be teaching the most elegant salon style with the
exceptional grace and technique that make them one of the favorite dance
couples touring the world today.
Mark your calendars--April 10, 8:30-9:30 pm class and from 9:30 to 1 am dance
the evening away at the Lafayette Veteran's Bldg., 3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd.,
Lafayette. And to top the evening off, Gabriela and Diego will present one
of their mesmerizing dance routines some time during the evening.
For more information call Jeanne Hill (925) 293-0191.
See you. Jeanne
Visit Gabriela and Diego on the Web: http://members.aol.com/tangoroman
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