3732  International organization for tango

Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:49:57 +0200
From: Áron ECSEDY <aron@MILONGA.HU>
Subject: International organization for tango

Question to the list: does anybody aware of any _real_ international
assocation organization for tango dancing (professional or
amateur)/teaching/promotion?

If not, are professionals on the list care to create one (main purpose:
promotion of tango)?

Ecsedy Áron
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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:52:10 -0700
From: Igor Polk <ipolk@VIRTUAR.COM>
Subject: International organization for tango

Any administrative systematization and standardization constitutes the death
of free development of a dance.

No one dance in the history of human kind was developed on bureaucratic
stages. Only in crowd.

And bureaucrats will do their best effort to privatize the dance.

Do we need it? So far it is pretty good.

Igor Polk

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:39:27 +0200
From: Áron ECSEDY <aron@MILONGA.HU>
Subject: Re: International organization for tango

> Any administrative systematization and standardization
> constitutes the death of free development of a dance.

I believe you are getting me wrong. I don't mean to start some kind of
tango-IDSF or WDDSC. Just an umbrella organization that could ensure both
cooperation and free flow of information on a greater scale. No competition,
no professional protection of interest or that kind of stuff.

> No one dance in the history of human kind was developed on
> bureaucratic stages. Only in crowd.

> And bureaucrats will do their best effort to privatize the dance.

You move around to much in the States. In Europe we don't have dance studio
franchises. Most dancing and activity in dancing is done through civil
organizations (associations) - it works like a miracle in some countries
(Italy!). The basic principle of such an organization is democratic
cooperation. The "There's more than enough to go around" principle used on a
grander scale...

Just to quote an example from Italy which was truly amazing: a couple from a
small town near Napoli attended a show and then a workshop in Napoli, then
they decided that they want tango in their city. They created an
association, collected some 200 people who'd want to learn to dance, invited
an Argentine teacher on salary (!) and lived happily ever after... All this
as a hobby. My jaw fell when they told me the story. (I still have their
card somewhere - with half-a-dozen names on it as representatives (you know:
they are working so they don't always have time, hence the many people to
handle affairs))

Aron

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 02:01:50 +0200
From: "Gabriella C. Marino" <gcmarino@IOL.IT>
Subject: Re: International organization for tango

If you go to www.faitango.it you will find the website of the Italian
Federation of not for profit Argentine Tango Associations...
(We're doing fine!)
By the way, the association you quote is G Tango of Salerno, which is not
yet a member.

Gabriella
Italy

> From: Áron ECSEDY <aron@MILONGA.HU>
> Reply-To: Áron ECSEDY <aron@MILONGA.HU>
> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:39:27 +0200
> To: TANGO-L@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [TANGO-L] International organization for tango
>
>>
> You move around to much in the States. In Europe we don't have dance studio
> franchises. Most dancing and activity in dancing is done through civil
> organizations (associations) - it works like a miracle in some countries
> (Italy!). The basic principle of such an organization is democratic
> cooperation. The "There's more than enough to go around" principle used on a
> grander scale...
>
> Just to quote an example from Italy which was truly amazing: a couple from a
> small town near Napoli attended a show and then a workshop in Napoli, then
> they decided that they want tango in their city. They created an
> association, collected some 200 people who'd want to learn to dance, invited
> an Argentine teacher on salary (!) and lived happily ever after... All this
> as a hobby. My jaw fell when they told me the story. (I still have their
> card somewhere - with half-a-dozen names on it as representatives (you know:
> they are working so they don't always have time, hence the many people to
> handle affairs))
>
> Aron