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Digest from 15 May 2000
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Subject: TANGO-L Digest - 15 May 2000 to 16 May 2000 (#2000-133)
There are 4 messages totalling 123 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. baile/milonga
2. How fun !
3. How fun!
4. You guys.
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 14:16:12 EDT
From: Shirley Kwan <SKisaichi @AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: baile/milonga
Sang and Gabriella make perfect sense to me. When I go to dance, I want and need my baile. But sometimes I arrive to find it has assumed aspects of a milonga (per their definition). Then I must wait till it once again assumes the feeling of my "baile"--village/neighborhood gathering of loved friends and some others, friendly and casual, my niche that accepts me no matter how I am dressed or dance. In short: home.
Shirley
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 10:27:49 -0700
From: AisA <aisstilla @YAHOO.COM>
Subject: How fun !
Did anyone notice New York's May & June calendar ?
It's amazing. Every week there is some tango
personality in town. Some with overlapping dates.
People are not interested in not conflicting any more.
Those who are afraid of commercialization and
competition take note: There are more dancers than
ever because there is competion.
Like first week in June Miguel Zotto is in town, and
there is a "Tango a la Turca" weekend festival.
Zotto is a name to watch , but you have Metin Yazir
and Daniel Lapadula and belly dancing as competition.
I might end up going to both of the milongas. For
workshops : harder decision, it's just that some times
big names does not produce better workshops.
Undecided, I have been wanting to experience Metin
since I heard people talk about him so much. Again
maybe one of each :)
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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 15:00:03 -0700
From: Huck Kennedy <huck @ENSMTP1.EAS.ASU.EDU>
Subject: Re: How fun!
AisA writes:
> Like first week in June Miguel Zotto is in town, and
> there is a "Tango a la Turca" weekend festival.
> Zotto is a name to watch , but you have Metin Yazir
> and Daniel Lapadula and belly dancing as competition.
> [...]
> Undecided, I have been wanting to experience Metin
> since I heard people talk about him so much.
Take Metin and you'll get "belly dancing" anyway. :)
Huck
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 20:05:36 -0700
From: Deborah Holm <deborah.holm @PRODIGY.NET>
Subject: You guys.
OK you guys.
I guess I am one of those females that Felix is worried
about reading the list. That I won't like tango because
of what I read on the list.
The fact that there is this level of communication alone
would make me even more interested in tango.
I like all of the dances and I am not really good at
any of them.
When I do any of the dances besides Argentine Tango,
the guy puts me out with his lead to dance independently
with my own balance and swing my hips or whatever to
make it hot, like the fire in salsa, or the totally "cool"
moves (equally difficult) in swing.
In Argentine Tango the guy never puts me out with his lead
to do the dance on my own. Since we are always connected, my
balance is dependent on his balance. It takes two to tango.
If my balance is off, I pull him down in an embarrassment to
both of us, and if he is so strong that I can't pull him down
by mistake, and he keeps holding me up and my legs are
still trying to do the step, do you know what it looks like?
Please don't say what it looks like.
I think this has to do with something called centrifugal force.
Salsa is fun.
Tango is sex, and sex is not funny to a proud man.
If you are too exhausted to have sex with a proud man
then you are not supposed to even try. Because if you
are too exhausted to make sure that every second of a
three minute dance is not spent paying attention to only
him and the music (don't you EVER think of ANYTHING
but him and the music) then you will be lucky to be told
that you simply made a mistake, and not more.
You will be lucky that he only punishes you a little bit,
because you didn't know better.
Deborah
B.A. Tango
End of TANGO-L Digest - 15 May 2000 to 16 May 2000 (#2000-133)
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