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There are 4 messages totalling 521 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Attention, please!/ raising the cost of email -Forwarded (2) 2. Miami Tango congress 3. Fabian Salas in Los Angeles


Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 11:43:19 EDT From: Maritza Bodine <TangoVenus @AOL.COM> Subject: Attention, please!/ raising the cost of email -Forwarded hi list! :-) i dislike long forwarded messages, but this is of interest to all of us, so i'm passing it along. hope is not too late...i'ven been out of town and only now i'm trying to catch up with it all... you know how that goes ! :-) PLEASE COPY and SEND TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW TODAY BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!! un abrazo, maritza ===================================================== Maritza Bodine, Editor La Voz del Tango P.O.Box 18711 Encino, Ca 91416-8711 ----------------------------- 818/784-3131 tel 818/784-3636 fax TangoVenus @aol.com ========================================================


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Date: 99-05-13 13:44:00 EDT From: rose @wsrcg.com (Rose Reid) To: bd058 @lafn.org, Handfull4 @aol.com, wsreid @wsrcg.com, chuckwebb @Prodigy.net, kayweinstein @yahoo.com, JRosenbe @UCLA.edu, Leah4000 @aol.com, Rshaked @nwc.net, Dzi9R @aol.com, KarenJ4875 @aol.com, Rosyneedle @aol.com >From: "Hanes" <an546 @lafn.org> >To: "Rena" <Isobul @aol.com>, "Rose" <rose @wsrcg.com>, "Dan" <hanes @ufl.edu>, > "ken" <kenchon @drizzle.com>, "andy" <ahanes @gis.net>, > "frantz" <DFrantz304 @aol.com>, "linden" <IHLVDMG @aol.com>, > "Bernie Fisher" <bfisher651 @aol.com>, "jane" <SMJane @aol.com>, > "burl" <bfisher @brandx.net> >Subject: Fw: raising the cost of email -Forwarded >Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:35:34 -0700 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 > > >--If this is true, it would be awful! > >> CNN reported that in the next two weeks, Congress is going to vote on >> allowing telephone companies to charge for Internet access. That means, >>every >> time we make a long distance e-mail we will receive a long distance >charge. >> This will get costly. Please visit to the following web site AND complain. >> Complain to your Congressman. Don't allow this to pass. >> http://www.house.gov/writerep/ >> >> Pass this on to your friends. It is urgent! I hope all of you will pass >this >> on to all your friends and family. All of us have an >> interest in this one. PLEASE COPY and SEND TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW TODAY >BEFORE >> IT IS TOO LATE!! >> >> >> >> >> >> ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- >> Return-Path: <teltser @hotmail.com> >> Received: from rly-zd05.mx.aol.com (rly-zd05.mail.aol.com >[172.31.33.229]) >>by air-zd04.mail.aol.com (v59.4) with SMTP; Wed, 12 May 1999 11:20:33 -0400 >> Received: from hotmail.com (law2-f99.hotmail.com [216.32.181.99]) >> by rly-zd05.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) >> with SMTP id LAA26536 for <apedroja @aol.com>; >> Wed, 12 May 1999 11:20:31 -0400 (EDT) >> Received: (qmail 48592 invoked by uid 0); 12 May 1999 14:53:52 -0000 >> Message-ID: <19990512145352.48591.qmail @hotmail.com> >> Received: from 209.78.216.167 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; >> Wed, 12 May 1999 07:53:52 PDT >> X-Originating-IP: [209.78.216.167] >> From: "Thomas Teltser" <teltser @hotmail.com> >> To: teltser @usa.net >> Subject: Fwd: raising the cost of email -Forwarded >> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 07:53:52 PDT >> Mime-Version: 1.0 >> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; >>boundary="----=_NextPart_000_a3cbee1_1dfc8c93$4d64f53e" >> >> >> >> >> >Return-path: Dkohana @aol.com >From: Dkohana @aol.com >Full-name: Dk ohana >Message-ID: <e789233e.246b69c3 @aol.com> >Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:33:23 EDT >Subject: Fwd: raising the cost of email -Forwarded >To: Allegra22 @aol.com, dallen @ gilberg.com, dgirl @gte.net, wpgirl @ > earthlink.net, Pjbrunson @aol.com, Yalalei @aol.com, Bobokat86 @aol.com, > chilasco @ hot mail.com, debcogan @lava.net, OhanaKai @aol.com, > mdruger @earthlink.net, TAG21487 @aol.com, RHartmann9 @aol.com, > htomh @netscape.net, BIlles8412 @aol.com, Kellogg3 @aol.com, > LMKELLOGG2 @aol.com, Yulmk @aol.com, KRKPSK @aol.com, Servizio @aol.com, > Oililylv @aol.com, GREENIZ40 @aol.com, jiznell @yahoo.com, > RSMTOM @aol.com, KEITHPRO1 @aol.com, royaldesign @ hot mail.com, > sturges @ IX. netcom.com, Suzruh22 @aol.com, charlene @ crazy > shirts.com, Pohaku @earthlink.net, Tuprus @aol.com >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part2_e789233e.246b69c3_boundary" >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0.i for Mac sub 189 > > >Return-path: APedroja @aol.com >From: APedroja @aol.com >Full-name: APedroja >Message-ID: <e789233e.246b48c6 @aol.com> >Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:12:38 EDT >Subject: Fwd: raising the cost of email -Forwarded >To: Dkohana @aol.com, jjaeckel @whole.org, bh434 @lafn.org, PAMomWiJob @aol.com, > 72123.721 @compuserve.com, Meg @TheWaterCooler.com (Meg Perkins), > pikakemoon @juno.com >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part3_e789233e.246b48c6_boundary" >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 13 > >In a message dated 5/12/99 8:20:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time, >teltser @hotmail.com writes: > ><< http://www.house.gov/writerep/ >> > >Return-Path: <teltser @hotmail.com> >Received: from rly-zd05.mx.aol.com (rly-zd05.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.229]) > by air-zd04.mail.aol.com (v59.4) with SMTP; Wed, 12 May 1999 11:20:33 > -0400 >Received: from hotmail.com (law2-f99.hotmail.com [216.32.181.99]) > by rly-zd05.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) > with SMTP id LAA26536 for <apedroja @aol.com>; > Wed, 12 May 1999 11:20:31 -0400 (EDT) >Received: (qmail 48592 invoked by uid 0); 12 May 1999 14:53:52 -0000 >Message-ID: <19990512145352.48591.qmail @hotmail.com> >Received: from 209.78.216.167 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; > Wed, 12 May 1999 07:53:52 PDT >X-Originating-IP: [209.78.216.167] >From: "Thomas Teltser" <teltser @hotmail.com> >To: teltser @usa.net >Subject: Fwd: raising the cost of email -Forwarded >Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 07:53:52 PDT >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; > boundary="----=_NextPart_000_a3cbee1_1dfc8c93$4d64f53e" > > > >>From: Robert Teltser MD <RTeltser @bethisraelny.org> >>To: teltser @hotmail.com >>Subject: raising the cost of email -Forwarded >>Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 15:09:42 -0400 >> >>Thought this might interest you. > > >_______________________________________________________________ >Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com >-------------------- >Received: from imo23.mx.aol.com ([198.81.17.67]) > by bethisraelny.org (GroupWise SMTP/MIME daemon 4.1 v3) > ; Sat, 24 Apr 99 00:50:42 EDT >Received: from Randekasp @aol.com (325) > by imo23.mx.aol.com (IMOv20) id iVQHa26761; > Fri, 23 Apr 1999 22:42:21 -0400 (EDT) >Message-ID: <62f4ee4b.2452898c @aol.com> >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 13 >Reply-To: Randekasp @aol.com >Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 22:42:20 -0400 >From: <Randekasp @aol.com> >To: BOXPOP @aol.com,Chiefriley @aol.com, Doc9898 @aol.com, DZarko @aol.com, > JBaker4459 @aol.com, JoyceR001 @aol.com, Jtalan3K @aol.com, > Klieo @aol.com, Kwill23 @aol.com, MAPFAP @aol.com, > MGrantNYC @aol.com, MKOCon @aol.com, Popick @aol.com, > PSREZ @aol.com, Sh365 @aol.com, SteveD777 @aol.com, > Tugboat345 @aol.com, sergeti @attachmate.com, > RTeltser @bethisraelny.org, bodhi @bway.net, > David.Rosenberg @cendant.com, sherylanne @chl.com, > MOLLYLUKE @compuserve.com, michaelmahon @earthlink.net, > drshafer @gate.net, jeffricker @hotmail.com, > jessie_marie1 @hotmail.com, peigic @hotmail.com, > misterz @ix.netcom.com, lpickus3 @juno.com, > jmettap @mindspring.com, mandel @pdq.net, jcolemsw @webtv.net >Subject: raising the cost of email >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain >Content-Disposition: inline > > >I know I have too many long distance e-mails to let this happen without >at least complaining...... How about you? >CNN reported that in the next two weeks, Congress is going to vote on >allowing telephone companies to charge for Internet access. That means, every >time we make a long distance e-mail we will receive a long distance charge. >This will get costly. Please visit to the following web site AND complain. >Complain to your Congressman. Don't allow this to pass. >http://www.house.gov/writerep/ > >Pass this on to your friends. It is urgent! I hope all of you will pass this >on to all your friends and family. All of us have an >interest in this one. PLEASE COPY and SEND TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW TODAY BEFORE >IT IS TOO LATE!! > > > >


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Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 10:38:11 -0700 To: bd058 @lafn.org, Handfull4 @aol.com, wsreid @wsrcg.com, chuckwebb @Prodigy.net, kayweinstein @yahoo.com, JRosenbe @UCLA.edu, Leah4000 @aol.com, Rshaked @nwc.net, Dzi9R @aol.com, KarenJ4875 @aol.com, Rosyneedle @aol.com From: Rose Reid <rose @wsrcg.com> Subject: Fw: raising the cost of email -Forwarded Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"


Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 09:30:43 -0700 From: JC Dill <tango @VO.CNCHOST.COM> Subject: Re: Attention, please!/ raising the cost of email -Forwarded On 11:43 AM 6/6/99 EDT, Maritza Bodine wrote: >hi list! :-) > >i dislike long forwarded messages, but this is of interest to all of us, so >i'm passing it along. STOP!!!! Do NOT forward these "long messages" without first checking them out, because 99.99% of them are hoaxes, like this one. The issues that surround this particular issue are very complex. 100% of the email messages on this topic that are circulating have essential components of this issue misstated and as such are false and misleading. If you want to know what the REAL issues are, read: http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=458871947 http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=450145376 http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=483400866 http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=448884913 http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=448505483 http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=419985090 If you are receiving this message via CC, it is because your email address was contained in the copy I received. I'm emailing you in the hopes of getting you to NOT pass this message on, and to contact anyone you may have sent the message to (or received if from) and tell them to NOT pass the message on but to read the pages above instead.


Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 22:00:36 -0400 From: Melinda Bates <tangerauna @EARTHLINK.NET> Subject: Miami Tango congress Hello list! This is a LOONG messsage, apologies! We are recently back from beautiful Miami beach and a fabulous week of learning, practicing, dancing, listening to, observing and talking about tango. It was great! The hotel is delightful - literally ON the beach. The timing of the week is excellent, as the hotel, pool, jacuzzi and beach were quiet all week, only becoming busy on the Sat and Sun of the holiday weekend. We liked our room, and the refrigerator and safe were nice conveniences. Sometimes we really were too tired to walk across the street for a meal... We used the jacuzzi every day to blast at our aching feet and backs. The ocean is perfect - warm turquoise water, gentle waves. Many of the classes take place in rooms looking out on the beach, so when the feet and the head said "enough!" it was easy to head for the sand and the water. We enjoyed eating and shopping in South Beach, but were astounded at the number of gorgeous people there. It truly is the land of the thin, the fit, the tan, the rich, and the very scantily clad. My guess is, if you are over a certain age (as the French say) you are only allowed to spend a limited amount of time there before the youth police make you leave..... The congress was well organized. Three levels of instruction, four classes each day, ending at 5 pm, dancing each night to a live tango trio. All of these arrangements went pretty much as scheduled. We were not aware of any problems with this. I was surprised that the teachers seldom posted the content of their classes - maybe that is traditional, and we just don't know. It seemed to me that you would want to know if someone was teaching milonga or vals.... but actually, it worked out quite well. A few of the teachers did do this, and there was flexibility to move from class to class if one wished to. I took intermediate and advanced classes, Steve took intermediate and beginner. As always, there were plenty of people in the advanced classes who were barely intermediate dancers....Luckily, most of them were couples who danced only with each other. For me there was always enough to focus on that it did not make much difference. Others may have minded more. As discussed here on the list, there does not seem to be a way around this. There was a small gender imbalance, and not all teachers reminded people to switch during the classes. I "share" Steve when we are in the same class, and do OK on my own. Actually, my best dance experience of the week (except for dancing with Fabian Salas) came in a Copes intermdiate class when I asked a young man to dance and he turned out to be a tanguero from BA who has been dancing 4 years. We just clicked, and danced the entire two classes together. He learned the pattern almost immediately and then we danced it over and over. It was blissful. Maybe some of you know a better way to express this experience - that unspoken communication when everything works, and you can lose yourself to the music and the possibilities of the next steps.... Thank you, Walter, for some fabulous dancing! Miami dancers came to some of the classes and most of the milongas. It was wonderful to meet people I have corresponded with on this list. It was interesting to me that the level of dance is about what it is in DC. A few really good, most itermediate. The teachers at the congress were all outstanding, really fabulous. Because I am a follower, not a leader, I did not work to memorize any of the patterns we learned. (Besides, we ordered the video tape...) My focus was on technique - balance, walking, posture, embellishments. Most of the teachers focused on this to some degree as well. Lorena and Osvaldo Zotto began every class by demonstrating a practice of one of these concepts, something anyone at any level could take home and do. Lorena gave a special workshop for women on technique and embellishments that was particularly useful. There was an extra charge for this, and my suggestion for event organizers is that it should be offered as part of the week - a class for women and a class for men. Please! Guillermina and Roberto Reis are stunning examples of how physically small people can dominate a space with their elegance and precision. The most useful lessons from them came from watching him on the dance floor. A world class dancer and choreographer, he danced soooo slowly and tenderly, it was exquisite. No flashy moves, no fantasy tango, just the most beautiful salon tango you could imagine. Fabian Salas I have known for two years. He seems to me to be not only a better dancer each time I see him, but a better teacher as well. He is thorough and attentive to all the students. (If you are in LA for his upcoming visit, don't miss this opportunity!) I am excited that next year's tango congress in BA (which he organizes) will take place in February, a month when such a trip may be possible for me. During the incredible show on the last night of the congress, Fabian's second dance was my favorite because while all the couples danced fabulous show tango, his dance was really only slightly exaggerated salon tango, with moves anyone might know, but performed with such grace and skill that it left us speechless. He is truly brilliant. Our classes with Fernanda Ghi and Guillermo Merlo were my favorites. They constantly encouraged even the stiffest gringo students to feel the music, to embrace their partner closely, to move together gracefully. At one point when Fernanda was exhorting us to get closer, closer, CLOSER I blurted out the old Groucho Marx line - If I get any closer to him I'll be BEHIND him! I particularly enjoyed their class on milonga. They both have unusually sweet and open dispositions, and the fact that they are beautiful and clearly in love made them a delight to be around. They are also thorough and effective teachers, and passionate and stylish dancers. Since they now live in Miami, maybe they will be available to visit more cities in the coming year for workshops. This was my first opportunity to meet Daniel Trenner. What a wonderful teacher he is. I was deeply impressed by his knowledge of the history and culture of tango as well as his surprising humility. In one class he explained that he would be teaching technique during the week, not patterns of steps. The reason was that in his opinion, for an American he is right at the peak of tango dancing and teaching, but the other teachers, as Argentines, were so far above THAT level, that it would be foolish for him to teach what they do so brilliantly. Steve took every class with him that he could, and I believe it really changed his dancing. (I hope he will write separately about his experience as a relative beginner.) Of course the greatest honor of the week was to be around and take classes with Juan Carlos Copes. He taught with his daughter Joanna, and it was a wonderful experience. I do think most of what he taught was really choreography, and I don't think you would see these complicated patterns on the dance floor, but even just observing him teach was very interesting. After one year of working on the lightest possible touch for following, when I danced with him he would reprovingly shake my right hand and say "stronger, more resistance" (I hope my former dance partner reads that...) Joanna at age 20 is clearly set to be the tango equivalent of prima ballerina. At one point I peeked into his advanced class, where he was counting off the steps to the pattern. By the time he got to "24" hardly anyone in the class was still with him. I think it ended around 36.... well, it was an ADVANCED class! The competitive event was most interesting. Six couples competed. Before you complain to the list about how there can be a competition of Argentine tango, refer back to Randy's message a few months ago. He said he understands the angst this raises with tangueros, but the reality is that competion is ALREADY happening. That leaves two choices: do nothing and allow the ballroom folks to take it over (and just imagine what that would mean), or, do it in the Argentine tango community, with judging by JC Copes, Fabian Salas, Lorena, Osvaldo, Daniel, Roberto Reis. That is why this competition took place. One couple were virtual professional ballroom dancers. Very polished, dramatic presentation, about 95% ballroom, 5% Argentine tango. They came in LAST. Another couple were equally professional, but more balletic. Lots of aerials, a routine that made me think of ice dancing, also about 95% something else and 5% tango. They came in next to last. One couple from Montreal were just dancers in the intermediate and advanced classes with us all week. Their dancing was A. tango, but it was without passion or precision or much of interest - just average salon tango. I admired their spunk for entering! I think they were fourth. I don't remember third. The top two couples were really wonderful. Second place went to a young man of 16 with a partner of 13 who danced with great style, elegance and passion. Really nice show tango, and amazing for their ages. They could easily have been first - they were authentic. The winners were a man in his 40s with a younger lady who also danced real A Tango with style, elegance and passion (we need more words for this dance!) They were gorgeous. I understand he is a teacher. I hope Randy will supply the names of these people for the list now. So, clearly, the Argentine judges were sending a message - this is NOT ballroom. This is ARGENTINE tango, we are the keepers of this tradition and culture and we will not allow anyone to co-opt or subvert it. I respect them tremendously for that, and we should all be grateful. If I want to dance ballroom, I know where to go to learn it. I'm not interested. My passion is Argentine tango, and I'm grateful to anyone who works to make the tango community stronger. On Sunday we had the pleasure of joining Juan Carlos in celebrating his birthday. He told me all about coming to the White House to dance tango for President Reagan's birthday in the 1980s..... (I'm the person who brought Pablo Veron to the White House in January to dance for President Clinton and President Menem.) We understand vaguely that this second tango congress in Miami came about because of a split in their tango community. We are sorry for that, as conflict and division are bad for "growing" the tango communities. Nevertheless, we have never been able to attend the tango week at Easter, so this scheduling was perfect for us. It appears to have been a success for the organizers too. Randy and Lydia did a great job of welcoming us and running a trouble free (at least for the dancers) week. We are very grateful for their hard work, and can't wait to go back next year. We believe we both improved our dancing measurably. It was well worth it for that, and, besides, was a wonderful vacation.


Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 23:14:33 -0700 From: "Ofelia R. Villanueva" <ofelia @MACCONNECT.COM> Subject: Re: Fabian Salas in Los Angeles At 8:01 AM -0700 6/4/99, Mark Celaya wrote: >We are proud to announce that tango great Fabian Salas >will be in Los Angeles to teach from Wednesday June 9 >through Wednesday June 16, 1999. This will be his first >teaching visit to LA, and we hope that everyone who can >attend his classes will make his visit to LA memorable. > Fabian is an excellent dancer and a wonderful teacher, but he's taught in L.A. before. We were fortunate enough to study with him in 1992, when Alberto Toledano & Loreen Arbus brought him to L.A. for a weekend workshop. His partner in those days was Cynthia Wraspir. Afterward, we all went to Norah's Place for dinner & dancing--it was wonderful! Brian & I had been dancing tango less than a year at that point, and it made quite an impression. We recommend his classes highly.


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