Your post to tango-l

[J Lane <jlane @NWLINK.COM>]

I've mentioned this to you more than once in the past: When you
quote someone else's post, edit down the quoted material.  A few
lines are generally enough to establish context.

Jim
Tango-a/l co-moderator


Copy of your original article:
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Date:    Fri, 13 Apr 2001 21:05:04 -0700
From:    Deborah Holm <deborah.holm @PRODIGY.NET>
Subject: Missed the idea.

I'm sure I am now in a hailstorm of the Tango-L
situation.

Here comes Tom Stermitz telling me that it is not
just one man who is a "show-off" in tango.  Bless
his heart that he thought that an entire community
managed a well-placed kick to my leg when I was
dancing with a "show-off" male.



Tom Stermitz:

What can you do when the
entire community thinks of tango as a show-off?
In other words it is a community-wide issue.




----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Stermitz <Stermitz @Ragtime.org>
To: Deborah Holm <deborah.holm @prodigy.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: Question about line of dance.


> >
> >A show-off man is going to do his thing no matter
> >what Argentine Tango people say.  He is going to
> >dance the most "show-time" steps that he just learned
> >in Buenos Aires in the middle of any dance floor
> >with absolutely no regard to anyone else on the
> >dance floor.
> >
> >And when he does it, the woman he dances with
> >might get a well-placed kick to her leg by the host
> >of that milonga to put that man in his place.
> >Unfortunately, the woman gets the injury.
> >So, I guess, the plan is that the woman will never
> >again dance with that man, but she must be very
> >adept at who are the show-offs so that she won't
> >be disabled for life.
> >
> >Why don't all of you just address the issue of
> >"the show-off man" instead of skirting around the
> >issue with words like discipline, etc....
>
> It isn't as simple as a few show-off guys.
>
> I haven't traveled as much as I should to make generalities, but from
> what I have seen, (LA, Seattle, San Francisco, Washington DC, Berlin)
> the underlying style and vision of the community is not about social
> tango, rather it is complicated, steps. What can you do when the
> entire community thinks of tango as a show-off?
>
> In other words it is a community-wide issue.
>
> In Buenos Aires, they might not all dance great, but for the most
> part they understand that tango is a social dance, not an exhibition.
>
> It is precisely this sense of a social dance that is missing outside
> Buenos Aires...and San Francisco is one of the better places.
> --
>
> Tom Stermitz
> stermitz @ragtime.org
> http://www.ragtime.org/ragtime
> http://www.tango.org/dance