2226 Competing demands for dance floor space & music
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 10:22:53 -0800
From: Rick FromPortland <pruneshrub04@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Competing demands for dance floor space & music
I was just thinking about Peter's humorous, insightful posting last
Summer about Tango Styles:
https://pythia.uoregon.edu/~llynch/Tango-L/2003/msg01686.html
.
I know some people love to dance on crowded floors to almost
nothing other than a certain genre of music. Personally I don't
like being hemmed in by other dancers, I find it very distracting
& not much fun or enjoyable. I also love dancing to lots of genre's
of Tango music, post-Golden age, modern, contemporary,
alternative. Perhaps there's a way to partition dance floors,
spatially & acoustically. People that like crowds, can dance in
crowds. People that don't, have lots of room. I love a dance floor
about 1/2 empty, 1/2 full. Has good energy, critical mass for a
wonderful time.
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:33:05 -0600
From: Stephen Brown <Stephen.P.Brown@DAL.FRB.ORG>
Subject: Re: Competing demands for dance floor space & music
In a way, doesn't a form of partitioning occur anyway in most communities?
Don't people mostly attend the milongas that better fit their own tastes?
It's the big tango events that have the potential to draw dancers with
diverse interests--particulary if the event has a diverse mix of
instructors. Maybe for a big enough tango event with diverse instructors,
simultaneous milongas might better serve differing tastes.
One of the attractions of a well attended milonga is that everyone enjoys
the shared experience.. Breaking a moderately attended milonga into three
smaller events isn't likely to be as much fun.
Instead of three separate milongas, what about three djs broadcasting on
three channels to people wearing headsets? One channel might feature
highly rhythmic music from the golden era. Another channel might feature
a blend of smoother to dramatic music from the golden and later eras. The
third channel might feature a blend of theatrical and modern neo-tango
music.
Asking someone to dance might be a bit more complicated because the couple
would have to agree to which channel they should listen while dancing.
Suppose, however, that my partner and I agreed to listen to different
music while dancing together----me to the rhythmic channel playing
D'Arienzo's El Flete and my partner to another channel playing Pugliese's
La Bordona. You can imagine the difficulty in us dancing together. We
would quickly recognize that the music provides a coordinating glue to our
dancing.
To some extent the same problem would arise if each partner in a couple
was listening to the same music, but the couples on the floor had selected
different music. The music provides the coordination across couples that
is necessary for navigation.
Participating in an activity that requires coordination across
individuals, such as dancing at a milonga, requires at least some degree
of agreement (and compromise) between those individuals. We all make some
compromise in our personal tastes to participate in a shared activity such
as dancing at a milonga.
With best regards,
Steve
Stephen Brown
Tango Argentino de Tejas
https://www.tejastango.com/
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:45:35 -0800
From: Rick FromPortland <pruneshrub04@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Competing demands for dance floor space & music
Stephen Brown writes:
> Maybe for a big enough tango event with diverse instructors,
> simultaneous milongas might better serve differing tastes.
At this year's ValenTango here in Portland, there's going to be
an Alternative Milonga, from 2 to 5PM Saturday afternoon. I
believe Homer from SF will be the DJ. I'm really looking forward
to a cool afternoon; we have a lot of fun there at Andrew's regular
dance on Wed evening...
.
I also heard that at the Savoy ballroom, years ago, they had a stage
at each end of a huge dance floor, with different bands playing...
I wish I could have danced there too...
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