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Subject: TANGO-L Digest - 31 Dec 1999 to 1 Jan 2000 (#2000-1)
There are 5 messages totalling 206 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Tango Continues Into the New Millennium...Long live the Tango! Happy New
Year!
2. 1) Lunfardo & 2) Spanish List
3. The Tango Lesson
4. Tango Pasion
5. Party Manners
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Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 07:20:22 EST
From: Arthur Greenberg <AHGberg @AOL.COM>
Subject: Tango Continues Into the New Millennium...Long live the Tango! Happy
New Year!
Dear Fellow Tangueros & Tangueras:
Unless a meteor hits me today....... during this, the last day of the "old"
millennium.....my dance partner and I plan to "Tango-in" the new year 2000.
Both Tango and myself have survived another year and we are both alive and
well in West Palm Beach, Florida, in the USA. It is December 31st, 1999.
The weather forecast is for skies to be clear and the temperature here in
sunny Florida is approximately 70 degrees faranheit.
I wish to send my warmest greetings for health and prosperity in the coming
year 2000 to all my friends and fellow Tangueros & Tangueras on this Tango
duscussion/information list and to all who live and love this marvelous art
form.
Sincerely,
Arturo
AHGberg @aol.com
West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 15:08:56 -0800
From: Ruddy Zelaya <ruddy.zelaya @ENG.SUN.COM>
Subject: Re: 1) Lunfardo & 2) Spanish List
Kate,
the tango CD-Rom in question contains the entire
text of Jose Gobello's "Cronica General del Tango",
assorted goodies (including video clips of common
dance figures), as well as the lyrics for many tangos.
I seem to recall that lunfardo words are hypertexted to
their definitions. I'll check the CD tonight to see
if there is a free-standing glossary.
I would recommend anybody interested in lunfardo
to get a copy of Jose Gobello's "Nuevo Diccionario
Lunfardo" --Ediciones Corregidor, 1994. ISBN: 950-05-0565-8.
It contains thousands of lunfa words used not only
in the tango lyrics but in Argentine literature
as well.
As for your second question, as far as I know there
is no spanish list dedicated solely to Argentine Tango.
On the other hand, there are quite a few sites dedicated to
foster Argentine culture on the web.
One to check out for sure is the Gardel server at
http://arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/rec/argentina/
go there first and you can select a mirror closer to
where you are.
---
ruddy
>Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 12:51:34 -0600
>From: "kata @pitton.com" <kata @PITTON.COM>
>
>I'm a Latin American geographer who works as a university Spanish
>instructor and translator. My specialty is Rioplatense language & culture.
>Right now I'm working on a book about Lunfardo, which I've been researching
>for 6 years -- I spend Spring & Fall in Baires, my second home. Since I'm
>coming to the end of the project, I'm double-checking everything & looking
>"one last time" for long-lost leads I've heard about. I understand that
>there's an out-of-print multi-media CD-ROM about the history of tango which
>included a Lunfardo glossary. I'd like to know if anyone in the list has it
>-- or at least knows the title or can confirm that it contains a glossary.
>Perhaps I should emphasize that I'm looking for Lunfa terms used in the
>lyrics, not for Spanish terms used to describe dance moves, etc.
>Any information would be welcome and appreciated.
>
>Also, I'd like to know if there's a Spanish-language tango list.
>
>MTIA,
>Kate
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 00:47:32 -0500
From: Monica Zhang <mzhang @SATURN.VCU.EDU>
Subject: The Tango Lesson
Hi--
I just saw the movie "The Tango Lesson" yesterday and thought it was an
interesting movie. I wonder if there has been any discussion on the list
regarding the movie? I am curious as to what the advanced dancers think on
this list about the dancing in the movie. :)
I'd appreciate your feedback/comments.
Monica
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 20:20:34 +0100
From: Natarajan Balasundara <rajan @EMC.COM>
Subject: Tango Pasion
Hello all,
I saw 'Tango Pasion' (with Sexteto Mayor orchestra) last weekend
here in Paris-- where I happen to be for now. It had a 'musical'
flavor including a laser show of a dancing couple in the midlde
of the rest of the goings on which felt strange to me. I guess I
was not able to appreciate it as much as I would have liked to --
may be because it is not the the first tango show to go
around(wonder if anyone else has any comments on it).
Or, may be because of the the storm previous night which
had left paris only that dawn after rattling all the windows
overnight and leaving only a few trees and myself standing by
the time it was gone ... and the dull headache in its wake
that persisted well into the afternoon(I went for the matinee).
In any case, I did not find it as interesting as the James Bond
movie around the corner (an unfair comparison in any case? :-)
For the moment, half a million already seem to have gathered
on Champs-Elysees (with another half a million expected to arrive
in the next half an hour ;-) -- the whole avenue seems more densely
packed than the local milonga floor...
In any case, warmest greetings and best wishes to everyone for
the next year/century/millenium!
Cheers!
rajan.
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 23:42:15 EST
From: Cherie Magnus <MACFroggy @AOL.COM>
Subject: Party Manners
Hola, List!
It's that time of the year--Party Time!
I've attended many milongas in various world cities (New York, Los Angeles,
Miami, San Francisco, Reno, Santa Fe, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires) in the last
eighteen months, and I've come away with some personal observations on
promoting and milonga-throwing.
I know it isn't easy to put on a big dance, and that you can't please
everybody, but sometimes just a little effort on a few simple things can make
all the difference in whether someone comes back or not.
First of all, if you are the host (or hostess) of a dance, you should act
like it. In other words, take responsibility for your guests having a good
time, as if the party were in your home. This has been the case at several
milongas I've attended (even in Buenos Aires), and it sure made all the
difference to the kind of evening I had. I remember many warm hosts and
hostesses, who did their best to help everyone feel welcome and to have a
good time. They talked, introduced, mixed, danced with as many people as
possible--and yes, sometimes still oversaw the music, too.
This past weekend I attended a special milonga in another state. I didn't
know anyone, and the promoters knew that and that I was coming alone from
afar. It was a small event--about 40 people. Did the host or hostess
introduce me to a single person? Did they encourage mixing or facilitate
people moving between tables and dancing with others? Did they make any
welcome announcements or point out attendees from out of town? Did the host
even ask me to dance?
What do you think?
These small details would have made all the difference in the ambiance of the
event. Providing food and music is not enough. You need to create a warm
atmosphere where people can have the most fun possible--and so that they will
want to return. This is to everyone's benefit. Eric of Nijmegen, Holland,
takes the time to plan little mixer games--find the person of the opposite
sex with a pin matching the one you got when you arrived; find the person who
can answer a certain riddle, whatever. Maybe it seems silly, but it works.
Even for a foreign out-of-towner who didn't know a soul, like me.
Also, if you host a regular milonga, and you have faithful supporters who
come every week no matter what for months, if they stop coming it might be
beneficial to give them a jingle to find out why. It could be something that
could be easily changed or fixed or explained, and future drop-aways could be
prevented. Might make the milonga even better as well. Communication and
feedback are always helpful. I've noticed a huge change-over of dancers at
our local weekly milongas, and I wonder what's happened to all those regulars
who have disappeared.
How do the rest of you feel about this? What have your experiences been at
milongas outside of your home town?
Feliz Navidad, and a Millennium of fabulous tangos to all!
Cherie Magnus
Los Angeles
http://www.viveladifference.com
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