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Re: [TANGO-L] And the new World Champions are ...
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- Subject: Re: [TANGO-L] And the new World Champions are ...
- From: Mark Lad <markw @KWEB.COM>
- Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 10:34:26 -0800
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Is it just me? Am I the only one that thinks taking an art so beautiful as
Tango and making it a competition is perverse?
I think competition is exactly what killed ballroom dance. They took dances
that real people did socially and distorted them into some kind of weird
stage hoofing. Now if anybody wants to learn to foxtrot they're taught by a
system designed to produce competitors, not dancers.
Competition is fine for ball sports, foot races and chess. It is absolutely
wrong for art and social dance.
Keep competition out of Tango!!!
Mark Lad