Re: [TANGO-L] NA-E: NYC Hit and Run thru Christo's Gates

[Derik Rawson <rawsonweb @YAHOO.COM>]

Dear Jennifer:

Great photographs!  Wonderful.  To me, this is what
tango is all about.  I think that it is a social event
to be shared with others.

I love the idea of Guerrilla Tango or Hit and Run
Tango.  I remember doing it during the total eclipse a
few years ago in the streets of Rheims, France just
North of Paris at high noon during the 3 minutes of
total darkness.  I met a total stranger, Kim, from
Amsterdam via E-mail, and we danced tango.  My friends
from CNN and BBC took our picture while we danced.
What a blast. Lots of fun.

I also have to shoot films like this in New York a lot
of the time, as do others.  Hit and Run is the only
way sometimes.  If the unions do not get you, the cops
will....lol.  Just set up the camera, grab the footage
and run.  Cool.  Same applies to tango.  dance and
run.  It is part of the adventure of tango.  Tango is
a street dance after all.  Sometimes I think that
people forget that.

I am sure that the reason the Gates cost 21 million
was that it was not a hit and run affair.  All the
city officials and their friends had to be paid off.
It was fun but really expensive.  Seems to me that art
today is more merchandising and less art, but I guess
in a way it has always been that way.  It is now just
a question of the scale of the art.  Now it is larger
and plays to a much wider audience.  Personally, I
would rather spend 21 million on a classic painting,
but the Gates was something that everyone could
appreciate, so I guess it is art as well.

Anyway, I think the point about photography at tango
events has now been made by your wonderful pictures of
Tango at the Gates.  Sometimes photography is very
appropriate and even part of the fun of dancing tango.
 Hope that I can make the next Hit and Run tango in
New York.  Have a great day.

Derik


--- Jennifer Bratt <jennifer   @CLOSE-EMBRACE.COM> wrote:

> I was there ... and yes, as luck would have it, I
> had my trusty camera!
>
> photos were just posted here:
>
http://www.close-embrace.com/thegates022705/index.htm
>
> It was a very, very cool place to tango.  Thanks to
> Gerald, Joy, and Lucille
> for organizing, and Trey and Guy for music. (And Ko
> and Shi-noh for hot
> wine!)  A bunch of people came up to Lucille
> thinking she was Jeanne-Claude;
> must be that gorgeous hair. We eventually wound up
> getting busted by a park
> ranger for playing amplified music sans permit, but
> not before we got a good
> two hours of dancing in.  And well, I guess that's
> part of the fun of
> hitting and then running anyhow.
>
> The specatacle of the Gates themselves is
> astounding.  They made the bleak
> winter landscape of Central Park come alive, not
> just with vibrant color,
> but with crowds and crowds of people from NYC and
> from all over the world.
> (I met a man in a milonga last week who had made the
> trip from Germany
> solely for the purpose of seeing the Gates.) The
> pathways were crowded with
> all sorts of characters (the least strange of which
> were the tango dancers
> with blue scarves); and everywhere total strangers
> were talking to each
> other about the Gates, the sunny day, whatever.
> Anything that can inspire
> that sort of sense of community and nice feeling
> must be a very, very good
> thing. (Even if it has a $21 million price tag! :)
>
> abrazos,
> Jennifer


		
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