Re: [TANGO-L] malbec vs. budweiser

[rtara <rtara @MAINE.RR.COM>]

Jennifer,

I always love reading your stuff.

My offering:

The dance with no name.

There is music.
There is connection
There is energy and intention,
There is call and response
There is movement through space

It is an agreement - a contract,
To listen, to trust, to respect, to care
To move in concert
For the length of a song,
or longer.

It is a conversation in a universal language
Statements. Questions? Answers.
With punctuation. 
Exclamations! Pauses ­
and ³Quotes².

There could be a giggle, a squeeze, a caress
Or maybe not.
Perhaps there¹s a murmur or a sigh
Some cry, I¹m told.
But, I¹m old 
and tired of trying to define
something as elusive as a dance.

One thing I know is true.
When you¹re dancing
You know it.


> From: Jennifer Bratt <jennifer  @CLOSE-EMBRACE.COM>
> Reply-To: jennifer  @CLOSE-EMBRACE.COM
> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 14:01:34 -0700
> To: TANGO-L  @MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: [TANGO-L] malbec vs. budweiser
> 
> Querido List Members-
> I am going take the liberty of paraphrasing a post I recently saw on a salsa
> discussion forum (subbing tango words for salsa ones) because I think it's
> pretty amusing, and pretty relevant to the current discussions:
> 
> "I just want to tell readers to keep giving their opinions about dancing and
> music, I have so much fun reading them.
> 
> Especially when you always know what is coming, for example if the topic is
> 'drinking at the Milongas', we are going to have the mandatory response from
> ***(put whichever vocal list-member's name here) , saying that people should
> drink argentine Malbec wine because tango came from argentina, and drinking
> budweiser at the milongas is just an Americanized way to drink at the
> milongas, and is wrong.
> 
> After, we are going to have the support of ***, ***, and *** saying that in
> South America people do not drink at all, that people who drink at the
> milongas learned to drink in North America. Others will say that argentine
> dancers just drink Malbec, and drinking budweiser is just for ballroom
> dancers, and again it is not argentine.
> 
> Then, we are going to have a response from *** giving everyone a lecture on
> dancing, and also from *** on tango history.
> 
> After, all of them are going to respond saying that people who drink Malbec
> are the only ones who follow the true rhythm of the bandoneon, and that
> Argentine dancers can drink and dance at the same time.
> 
> Followed by the mandatory attack on nuevo dancing saying that drinking
> budweiser and colgada'ing too fast is what makes people bump other couples
> in the milongas, with a full description of a night in Nino Bien, where they
> saw 2 nuevo dancers drink 10 budweisers each one of them.
> 
> Then, we are going to have an intense debate about where the word
> ³Malbec² came from, where *** is going to argue that the word has
> african roots, followed by another lesson in history from ***, maybe a
> celebrity opinion, and 3-4 other opinions saying that is all good and you
> can drink whatever you want as long as you don't do the 8-count basic. Keep
> dancing!"
> 
> Hee hee  -- have a great weekend!
> 
> Jennifer
> 
> (PS - and if you want to see the original post, it is here down at nov 30,
> 2004:
> http://www.tosalsa.com/goto.asp?http://www.tosalsa.com/deartosalsa/dto/index
> .asp)