Re: [TANGO-L] Reluctance to dance milonga.

[Huck Kennedy <huck @eninet.EAS.ASU.EDU>]

Alex (alejandro.delmonte @ntlworld.com) writes:
> Gordon writes:
> > How can anyone who loves tango not love milonga!  [Etc.]
>
> Gordon, I didn't say that I don't like milonga. I said that I don't dance
> it.  [...]
>
> When Pandora's box was open, sorrow, disease and hard labor was released
> into the world.  Only hope remained in the box, last refuge of mankind in the
> face of all hardships.

     Uh, d00d, that's where milonga comes in, DUH!!
All sorrow, disease, and hard labor makes Jack a dull
boy.  Why not allow yourself some of the hope as well?

> In this day and age sadness is a stigmatised emotion

     Well you make a great point there.  But let's not
go overboard in the opposite direction and wallow in
that one emotion to the point of forsaking all others.

> The best tango is danced grief-stricken.

     Whoa.  Maybe for you, but what makes you think
your personal experience extrapolates to everyone else?

     I'll gladly countenance without judgment your dancing
while sobbing with tears streaming down your face during
the sadder tangos if you will allow me, without denigrating
it as somehow emotionally inferior, to dance mine with
a somewhat more restrained bittersweet and nostalgically
mild wistfullness.

Huck

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