2379  is your tango community thriving and growing?

Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:18:19 -0700
From: jackie ling wong <jackie.wong@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: is your tango community thriving and growing?

greetings!

i would love to know if your tango community is thriving and i think it
would be great to share ideas on how to increase interest in the dance.

jackie
www.tangopulse.net

Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 11:21:07 -0700
From: jackie ling wong <jackie.wong@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: is your tango community thriving and growing?

hi batt,
yep those things work and are great suggestions but i'm looking for
something more subtle...i guess my question is more about community
building..maybe i should make
that clearer?..like Tango-L is about building community..
thanks
jackie

>
> Hello Ms. Wong:
> This is your old pal Batt Johnson from New York. How to increase interest
> in the dance in your community? Well, the media is the most powerful force

we

> have. You can create a milonga for a great cause, write up a press release
> and send it to all of the radio, but particularly the TV stations in your
> area. Talk about the beauty of the dance, the unusual nature of it.

Whenever

> there is
> a news item about dance, it is always about ballet, jazz or modern,

sometimes

> it
> is about tap. Stories in the New York Times about dance...its going to be
> modern, jazz or ballet. Tango is a sophisticated dance..highbrow, classy.

The

> media is the best way to get ANY message out to a mass audience.
> Television...everyone
> has one, everyone watches it.
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