From: Kat <hellkat_13 @YAHOO.COM>
Reply-To: Kat <hellkat_13 @YAHOO.COM>
To: TANGO-L @MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [TANGO-L] Is today's tango a dance of the middle classes?
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 12:29:26 -0800
Maybe it's simply an issue of what each of us finds
impressive. I find sincerity and charisma impressive.
My carpenter boyfriend is pretty uncomfortable in a
suit, but looks better in a pair of carharts or
leather pants and two days of stubble than damn near
any man alive. My drag queen ex-boyfriend looks
better in a dress than I do. Whether courting or
dancing, I am most attracted to a person who is
unabashedly themselves. My only caveat to that is
that they be relatively clean and not smell funny. It
takes all types to make up the world. If tango is
life, I think it should reflect that. I certainly
wouldn't bother to stick around if it was just suits
and fashion police.
--- Lucia <curvasreales @YAHOO.COM.AR> wrote:
> It's beyond me how cannot you SEE! that MAKING A
> SHOW
> for wooing the opposite sex is at the core of Tango
> (and Life!) and this includes DRESS to IMPRESS!
>
> Lucia
>
> --- "Christopher L. Everett"
> <ceverett @CEVERETT.COM>
> escribis:
>
> > Kat wrote:
> >
> > >I'm always floored by the pretention and irony of
> > >somebody saying a person or group isn't "classy"
> > >enough to dance tango. To me, tango is like the
> > Jay
> > >Gatsby of dances. it's a self-made man, who's
> > charm
> > >is in no small part dependent on it's seedy
> roots.
> > >Putting on a tuxedo and slicking back your hair
> > won't
> > >make you a good dancer, working hard, listening
> to
> > the
> > >music, and having a soul will. The last time I
> > >checked, that wasn't dependent on class,
> > nationality,
> > >or dress code.
> > >
> > Hear, hear. I tell my students that tango is a
> > working
> > person's dance all the time.
> >
> > >Don't get me wrong, it's fun to dress up and make
> > >something that could have been simply charming
> > >completely hypnotic. But to count the worth of
> an
> > >event based on the trimmings of the attendees or
> > the
> > >location seems like you're either in it for the
> eye
> > >candy or the elitism more than the dancing. i
> gave
> > >that crap up with ballet.
> > >
> > I would say that no one can deny where they come
> > from, but in the
> > old days, people did dress according to their
> > aspiration.
> >
> >
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