2885 SIX WAYS TO KILL TANGO IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:59:46 -0400
From: fortheloveof tango <fortheloveoftango@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: SIX WAYS TO KILL TANGO IN YOUR COMMUNITY
SIX WAYS TO KILL TANGO IN YOUR COMMUNITY
1.) Advertise hand-made shoes for the girls even though they re made in the
shoddiest factory in Buenos Aires. Charge them double. Tangueras are suckers
for
shoes and don t know a machine-seam from a cobblers needle!
2.) Sell tango music CDs at twice the price. Your students believe anything
you
say. To ensure they ll be back for more, sell CDs with the poorest sound
first.
Tell them it s the authentic version.
3.) When you re the D.J., just put on a long-running cassette tape. Don t
think
about the rhythm of the crowd, the day s events or the feelings and mood of
the
people. Above all, keep the best music at home for yourself. If you ve got
balls, tell them that to their face. After all you ve spent a lifetime in
the
illusion that you re a some-body. What do they know!
4.) Incorporate yourself as a non-profit educational institute allowed to
receive private funding. Get the Argentine consulate in your city to give
you
their blessing. Con them into thinking you re actually going to be doing
something for Argentine immigrants in your country. If you re shrewd, have a
membership drive, $30.00 for the year. Then give them a 10% discount on the
specially-named nights with the same boring music in the same senseless
order.
Then borrow your pals photo studio at no cost; charge 1-= times the price
of a
regular milonga in your town. Now that you re legal, you can funnel the
monies
to you and your cronies. Don t worry, the suckers will feel like kings and
queens just to be part of the community!
5.) If you teach tango, never talk about the fundamentals. (That is, if you
even
know what they are.) Demonstrate the most difficult figures. This way,
they ll
never learn and you ll have students for the next 20 years. Saves a lot on
advertising!
6.) A trip to Buenos Aires. What could be better for novice students who
know
nothing about Tango. A jacked-up airline ticket, a ratty hotel (so they get
a
feel for the Argentine garbage-pickers Los Cartoneros), 6 hours of classes
with
your pals, or known-names paid half of what they really deserve. Add
chauffer-driven vans to the milongas (so they can t see anybody else but
you), a
side-trip to El Tigre for a BBQ and the ruse is done! One week: $3,000
U.S.
Now once you ve killed the goose that laid the golden egg, don t complain if
classes shrink or people no longer come to your milongas.
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:16:08 -0500
From: "Christopher L. Everett" <ceverett@CEVERETT.COM>
Subject: Re: SIX WAYS TO KILL TANGO IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Jeez, it sounds as if you speak from experience ...
fortheloveof tango wrote:
> SIX WAYS TO KILL TANGO IN YOUR COMMUNITY
>
> 1.) Advertise hand-made shoes for the girls even though they're
> made in the
> shoddiest factory in Buenos Aires. Charge them double. Tangueras are
> suckers
> for shoes and don t know a machine-seam from a cobblers needle!
> 2.) Sell tango music CDs at twice the price. Your students believe
> anything
> you say. To ensure they ll be back for more, sell CDs with the poorest
> sound
> first. Tell them it s the authentic version.
> 3.) When you re the D.J., just put on a long-running cassette
> tape. Don t
> think about the rhythm of the crowd, the day s events or the feelings
> and mood of
> the people. Above all, keep the best music at home for yourself. If
> you ve got
> balls, tell them that to their face. After all you ve spent a lifetime in
> the illusion that you re a some-body. What do they know!
> 4.) Incorporate yourself as a non-profit educational institute
> allowed to
> receive private funding. Get the Argentine consulate in your city to give
> you their blessing. Con them into thinking you re actually going to be
> doing
> something for Argentine immigrants in your country. If you re shrewd,
> have a
> membership drive, $30.00 for the year. Then give them a 10% discount
> on the
> specially-named nights with the same boring music in the same senseless
> order. Then borrow your pals photo studio at no cost; charge 10
> times the price
> of a regular milonga in your town. Now that you re legal, you can
> funnel the
> monies to you and your cronies. Don t worry, the suckers will feel
> like kings and
> queens just to be part of the community!
> 5.) If you teach tango, never talk about the fundamentals. (That
> is, if you
> even know what they are.) Demonstrate the most difficult figures. This
> way,
> they ll never learn and you ll have students for the next 20 years.
> Saves a lot on
> advertising!
> 6.) A trip to Buenos Aires. What could be better for novice
> students who
> know nothing about Tango. A jacked-up airline ticket, a ratty hotel
> (so they get
> a feel for the Argentine garbage-pickers Los Cartoneros), 6 hours of
> classes
> with your pals, or known-names paid half of what they really deserve. Add
> chauffer-driven vans to the milongas (so they can t see anybody else but
> you), a side-trip to El Tigre for a BBQ and the ruse is done! One
> week: $3,000
> U.S.
>
> Now once you ve killed the goose that laid the golden egg, don t
> complain if
> classes shrink or people no longer come to your milongas.
--
Christopher L. Everett
Chief Technology Officer www.medbanner.com
MedBanner, Inc. www.physemp.com
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 03:41:37 -0700
From: Patricio Touceda <tangueros2001@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Ways to Kill Tango In Your Community
Hello morocha and other members.
I saw once that a teacher was telling the students to dance in a limited
space in the dance floor.
I like d that as an exercise for ppl to get use to that....
In yout post you said:
"....No matter how big the available dancing space, the organizer compels
his
>attendees to only dance milonguero style. In Buenos Aires they laugh that
>foreigners force their communities to dance inside chair corales to get
used to
>being on top of one another, when there maybe only 20 people dancing in an
>otherwise huge space...."
What is wrong with getting use to dance decently without bumping into each
other when the space is reduced.
During October, the Portland Tango Fest wil ltake place.
And i can tell you, there are a lot of people that has a real hard time
trying to dance in some milongas with over 300 dancers.
So... am i destroying my tango comunity in Seattle because i made that
exercisea few times here???
Any ideas in how to grow your tango comunity, thats what a lot of us is
trying to do in Seattle and is hard too. May be harder than destroy it.
Thanks to all
Patricio Touceda
www.tangonetwork.com
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:01:28 -0700
From: Rick FromPortland <pruneshrub04@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Ways to Kill Tango In Your Community
we have 3 1/2 hours of alternative & modern tango music on wed. nights here in portland. mostly young people, a great crowd, good energy, really fun. its not hurting our tango community at all, quite the opposite.
.
there's 9 hours of alternative milongas coming up in the next few days at tangofest as well.
.
ps: i'm in charge of Lost & Found, if anyone plans on losing something, come see me!
