5183  Milonguero style and show style dancing in one

Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:32:14 EDT
From: TangoSherwin@aol.com
Subject: [Tango-L] Milonguero style and show style dancing in one
evening ---a solution?

Ouch! kicked again by a flying heel !

Perhaps the organizers of a given milonga could announce before the music
starts that this tanda will be only milonguero style (no boleos or ganchos or
leg lifts or etc) ...

...and the one after that will be for showy style....etc etc.

Wouldn't that make sense?

Certainly there's enough time in one evening for both to have turns.

Sherwin

Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:49:59 -0500
From: "Tango Society of Central Illinois" <tango.society@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Milonguero style and show style dancing in one
evening ---a solution?
To: Tango-L <tango-l@mit.edu>
<cff24c340709201249u7e0b2630k9689882c1ced3c0d@mail.gmail.com>

On 9/20/07, TangoSherwin@aol.com <TangoSherwin@aol.com> wrote:

>
> Ouch! kicked again by a flying heel !
>
> Perhaps the organizers of a given milonga could announce before the music
> starts that this tanda will be only milonguero style (no boleos or ganchos
> or
> leg lifts or etc) ...
>
> ...and the one after that will be for showy style....etc etc.
>
> Wouldn't that make sense?
>
> Certainly there's enough time in one evening for both to have turns.
>
> Sherwin
>
>

Show style dancing at a milonga? Isn't that a contradiction? If you want to
do show style tango, you could organize a tango show. Milongas are for
social dancing (although for some reason this definition is not widely
accepted outside Buenos Aires). Thus, the announcement is unnecessary. You
could make the announcement at a milonga that show dancing is not suitable
(and if this is in the US, you would be guaranteed to kill the milonga).

Ron

Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:40:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Trini y Sean (PATangoS)" <patangos@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Milonguero style and show style dancing in one
evening ---a solution?
To: Tango Society of Central Illinois <tango.society@gmail.com>,
Tango-L <tango-l@mit.edu>

Hi Ron,

I think Sherwin was being sarcastic. But why bother to
announce which style for which tanda? Just switch to
electronica for the showy stuff. :-)

Trini de Pittsburgh
Home of the Smiley Icon


--- Tango Society of Central Illinois
<tango.society@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/20/07, TangoSherwin@aol.com <TangoSherwin@aol.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Ouch! kicked again by a flying heel !
> >
> > Perhaps the organizers of a given milonga could
> announce before the music
> > starts that this tanda will be only milonguero style
> (no boleos or ganchos
> > or
> > leg lifts or etc) ...
> >
> > ...and the one after that will be for showy
> style....etc etc.
> >
> > Wouldn't that make sense?
> >
> > Certainly there's enough time in one evening for both
> to have turns.
> >
> > Sherwin
> >
> >
> Show style dancing at a milonga? Isn't that a
> contradiction? If you want to
> do show style tango, you could organize a tango show.
> Milongas are for
> social dancing (although for some reason this definition
> is not widely
> accepted outside Buenos Aires). Thus, the announcement is
> unnecessary. You
> could make the announcement at a milonga that show
> dancing is not suitable
> (and if this is in the US, you would be guaranteed to
> kill the milonga).
>
> Ron

PATangoS - Pittsburgh Argentine Tango Society
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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:06:23 -0700
From: "El Mundo del Tango" <mail@elmundodeltango.com>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Milonguero style and show style dancing in one
evening---a solution?

...and the one after that will be for showy style....etc etc.

>
> Wouldn't that make sense?
>

No. It would not at all. You are making a very wrong assumption here.
That the so called "milonguero style" is the only form of social tango
versus "show".
It is not. Both nuevo and salon are forms of social Tango involving all
those elements that you think of as "show". Whether the use of those
elements is appropiate in reference to floor traffic conditions or the
person dancing with you, that is another issue, a matter of judgement, not
"style".

Gabriel

----- Original Message -----

From: <TangoSherwin@aol.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:32 PM
Subject: [Tango-L] Milonguero style and show style dancing in one
evening---a solution?

> Ouch! kicked again by a flying heel !
>
> Perhaps the organizers of a given milonga could announce before the music
> starts that this tanda will be only milonguero style (no boleos or ganchos
> or
> leg lifts or etc) ...
>
> > Certainly there's enough time in one evening for both to have turns.
>
> Sherwin
>
>
>
> https://www.aol.com