4901  Melina & Detlef: Youtube-videos

Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:08:19 -0300
From: Melina Sedo & Detlef Engel <tango@tangodesalon.de>
Subject: [Tango-L] Melina & Detlef: Youtube-videos

Dear Tango-friends,
we finally managed to upload synchronized versions of our new videos
onto our Youtube channel. Please forgive the unconviniences and have a
look at: www.youtube.com/tangodesalon
New videos of our performances in Buenos Aires will be following on a
almost daily basis, so keep checking the channel!



Melina & Detlef


Melina Sedo & Detlef Engel
www.tangodesalon.de
www.youtube.com/tangodesalon
tango@tangodesalon.de
(0049) (0)681 9381839
(0049) (0)177 4340669

Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:32:04 -0700
From: "Igor Polk" <ipolk@virtuar.com>
Subject: [Tango-L] Melina & Detlef: Youtube-videos

Melina,

Your recent dancing remarkably reminds me about someone I just saw yesterday
on video. Can you tell me who it was?

And... Why have you called your YouTube channel "tangodesalon" ?
Wouldn't it be better to call "MelinaDetlef"?

Igor Polk

Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:21:21 -0700
From: flame@2xtreme.net
Subject: [Tango-L] Melina & Detlef
To: tango-l@mit.edu

Melina,
I tend to be one of those who believe that tango is best learned from
Argentinians but I looked at the video of you two dancing to "Corazon" on
your website (www.youtube.com/tangodesalon) and I'd be standing in line
to attend classes from you two anytime. Hope you come to the SF Bay area
and teach someday. You move as one, with elegance and feeling. Really
beautiful.

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 22:58:01 -0400
From: "Michael" <tangomaniac@cavtel.net>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Melina & Detlef
To: <flame@2xtreme.net>, <tango-l@mit.edu>
Cc: Michael <tangomaniac@cavtel.net>

What I really liked about the second performance, is that they did absolutely NOTHING. No wild figures, no valcaldas, no colgaldas and they moved WITH the music. They took their time, in some cases waiting for the next measure of music. Too many times, I see couples dancing like wound up dolls or even worse, rabbits in heat.

I don't believe that Argentines are per se, the best teachers of tango. However, I believe that perhaps they may feel the music more than others because they understand the lyrics.

Michael
Washington, DC
I'd rather be dancing Argentine Tango

----- Original Message -----

Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:21 PM
Subject: [Tango-L] Melina & Detlef


Melina,
I tend to be one of those who believe that tango is best learned from
Argentinians but I looked at the video of you two dancing to "Corazon" on
your website (www.youtube.com/tangodesalon) and I'd be standing in line
to attend classes from you two anytime. Hope you come to the SF Bay area
and teach someday. You move as one, with elegance and feeling. Really
beautiful.

Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:55:27 +0000 (GMT)
From: Club~Tango*La Dolce Vita~ <dani@tango-la-dolce-vita.eu>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Melina & Detlef
To: flame@2xtreme.net, tango-l@mit.edu

Tango is best learned from whoever is judged to be a good teacher (and dancer) on *merit*... NOT on nationality!

A boxing trainer/coach can raise a boxer to world class level ...IF that coach is a good trainer and knows his stuff! How many boxing coaches have groomed world champions without ever having been in the ring themselves?!

A racehorse trainer can groom a champion racehorse without himself ever having run the Grand National!

Can we leave this bigoted nonsense about Argentineans being THE only good teachers/dancers...???!!!

D


----- Original Message ----

Sent: Tuesday, 4 September, 2007 8:21:21 PM
Subject: [Tango-L] Melina & Detlef


Melina,
I tend to be one of those who believe that tango is best learned from
Argentinians but I looked at the video of you two dancing to "Corazon" on
your website (www.youtube.com/tangodesalon) and I'd be standing in line
to attend classes from you two anytime. Hope you come to the SF Bay area
and teach someday. You move as one, with elegance and feeling. Really
beautiful.

Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:13:49 -0400
From: Keith <keith@tangohk.com>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Melina & Detlef
To: tango-l@mit.edu

Pretty much everybody seems to have attacked Janis on this subject. But the fact is, she's
absolutely, 100% correct. Argentineans are the very best dancers of Tango and the best way to
learn is to learn from the best. Isn't that obvious? Unfortunately, we all have limited time and
money and we have to use each as wisely as possible.

If you're totally committed to Tango, you'll do as Janis and others have done, and go to live in
Buenos Aires. If you're slightly less committed, you'll just spend as much time as you possibly
can in Buenos Aires. If you're even less committed, you'll settle for learning from local and
visiting teachers, whoever they might be. But let's not delude ourselves and imagine that any
non-Argentine, including Melina and Detlef, are as good as the best of the Argentines. Quite
simply, they're not.

And Dani, no one has ever said that Argentines are the ONLY good teachers/dancers - just that the
best teachers/dancers are Argentines. There's a big difference. In fact, even Janis, in her post,
said that Americans could learn from American teachers - so she asked .. why import Germans? On
that I have already disagreed with Janis. In the absence of Argentines - importing European
teachers might make good sense.

Keith, HK

On Thu Sep 6 1:55 , Club~Tango*La Dolce Vita~ sent:

>Tango is best learned from whoever is judged to be a good teacher (and dancer) on *merit*... NOT on nationality!
>
>A boxing trainer/coach can raise a boxer to world class level ...IF that coach is a good trainer and knows his stuff! How many

boxing coaches have groomed world champions without ever having been in the ring themselves?!

>
>A racehorse trainer can groom a champion racehorse without himself ever having run the Grand National!
>
>Can we leave this bigoted nonsense about Argentineans being THE only good teachers/dancers...???!!!
>
>D
>