448  Attracting more dancers........

Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:51:03 -0700
From: "Bruno E. Romero" <romerob@CADVISION.COM>
Subject: Attracting more dancers........

I think if you are a good host, good instructor, and are able to provide
your students with an experience that they will not find elsewhere chances
are you will succeed at building a good tango network. The first two
attributes may be a given or one could work at it to get these attributes.
The third one is a bit more complicated. How do we provide an experience to
our students they can not get elsewhere? Perhaps by letting students
experience argentine tango themselves rather than given them demonstrations
of what the dance is about. I have noticed that there IS music that reaches
out to people. For example, few nights ago I squeeze a few songs to be
played at the end of the milonga and one of the songs was Florindo Sassone's
A la gran mun~eca. After the music was over three people came over where I
was to find out the name of the song and where they could hear it again. The
music provided them with the unique experience they perhaps will not get
elsewhere. Granted not many people are sensitive to the music and they would
be attending a milonga or classes for many reasons, but perhaps those three
or more or less people who were moved by the music most likely will return.
It is said that the tango music and the tango dance are strongly connected
therefore I think that a way to reach out for more people either more men or
women is through the music and not through athletic dance moves. I have
issues with the local hosts because like anything else we all have musical
preferences for certain orchestras or singers, but at the end what count is
how many people remained on the dance floor after everyone else is exhausted
after trying all of the acrobatic moves they learned in the last workshop.

Bruno