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There are 5 messages totalling 147 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. tango in Russia - web page addresses (2)
2. learning to lead (2)
3. portable dance floors?
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:55:46 GMT
From: Alexander Vistgof <vistgof @HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: tango in Russia - web page addresses
http://milonga.msk.ru/
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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:59:38 GMT
From: Alexander Vistgof <vistgof @HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: tango in Russia - web page addresses
Dear List:
These are web pages with current information on tango events with contact
information in St.Petersburg and Moscow.
St. Petersburg
http://www.tango.spb.ru/
Moscow
http://milonga.msk.ru/
Cheers,
Sasha
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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 06:29:04 -0600
From: Chas Gale <Chuck.Gale @IHSENERGY.COM>
Subject: Re: learning to lead
Helene asked, """what can I do as a follower to help beginning leaders?"""
What I believe is the most effective answer to this question came from
Alberto who wrote, """I feel for the first time , the ax of the lady."""
YES! Now we're getting somewhere. Surely this would provide ample
motivation for leaders to learn to lead well. If every bad leader were to
feel the ax of the lady there would soon be no poor leaders to worry about.
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 09:32:58 -0300
From: Alberto Gesualdi-SMC Argentina- HQ <adm @SMCAR.COM.AR>
Subject: Re: learning to lead
> Alberto writes:
> > 2 ) Is your upper part what matters, not your legs : yesterday i wa=
s
> > practicing with my lady , she is 17 , I am 46.
Huck said:
>
> Er, uh, waiter, I'll have whatever he's drinking!
>
Alberto reanswer:
Huck, I dont think you will like my choice, is just a cup of tea & spar=
kling
water. In fact , sometimes I use english language in a confusing way.
"Lady" , in my english version, is whoever woman that has be so gentle =
to
share a dancing round at the milonga floor. In this case, the 17 lady i=
s a
pupil of the school ,who is practicing with myself for the year closing=
gala
dance on December 2nd. To practice, we make visits to milongas and danc=
e
very intensively ( 1 hour non stop, only refresh at the table when the =
music
curtain is played).
But anyway, thank you for your comments, you are welcome to share a cup=
of
tea with us.
Now I would like to talk about something that happens at the milongas i=
n
Buenos Aires, it is not usual , but seldom you see a dancing couple. Th=
e man
dances quite well , and is around his late 60=B4s, early 70=B4s . The l=
ady is
very young, a teenager . In the milonga slang, this kind of men are cal=
led
the "vampires", because they take only very young ladies to dance. As=
far
as I know, there is not a sexual relationship , just an odd way to danc=
e or
to pick their dancing partner.
Interesting, isn=B4t it.???
Alberto
p.s. I am not a vampire !!! Don t call Buffy the vampire slayer, plea=
se !!
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 16:09:18 +0200
From: Helaine Treitman <treitman @GIOTTO.ORG>
Subject: portable dance floors?
Can anyone advise me on creating a temporary or movable dance floor, one
that's really good to dance on? I'm setting up a series of seminars in
Umbria, Italy next year in an ex-monastery with hard, rough (500-year-old)
floors. We'll be doing 10-day near-marathons, so good floors will be
critical to the dancers' health and stamina. I want to offer as much
shock-absorption as possible, and a good surface. The main room for
classes and milongas is 200 sq. meters (about 2,000 sq. ft.) and there are
terraces and other practice areas that will need temporary floors as well.
I'll need to dismantle the floors after each seminar. My internet
research has turned up a thirty-thousand-dollar solution, which looks
perfect, except for the price!
Thanks.
Helaine
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