2926  V embrace (17)
I was considering traveling to Montreal for tango, however someone who visited the city recently told me that people dance there in V embrace. He also has mentioned that in his opinion over the years...

2927  Portland- The "silent majority"? (4)
I find it very comforting to know that the 600+ people who attended Portland are not feeling the need to defend the "V Embrace" or this or that style. Having danced tango in the U.S. for over a decade,...

2928  "V" Embrace? (5)
What in the world is the "V" embrace? Carlos Rojas Portland, OR

2929  V frame (49)
Michael wrote: I have made a mistake of focusing on steps while the most important part lost in V frame was connection of course. Hence less than satisfying experience. As a result of incomplete connection... Listeros: https://www.close-embrace.com/latenightportland101604/index.htm Here are some recent photos of couples dancing... escribis: truncated because the size !Llevate a Yahoo! en tu Unifsn! Well said, Senor. Don Carlos Amok, (Spanish first, then English below) Entiendo tu frustracion con...

2930  V-frame and followers' comfort (1)
Lois wrote: A follower responds: I have danced with leaders who do both, and don't find one better than the other. What is a problem is that when a leader allows "drift" by the follower because his left...

2931  Dancing Tango for Tango (1)
Hello Friends, One of the key reasons Portland enjoys a large, growing, active, cooperative community is because we learned early on that tango's myriad of forms and styles is part of what makes the...

2932  V-COMERCIAL frame. (4)
Nicole, try to learn tngo argentino, is nice.-Please, don't feel ofended.- Jus is something that you don't know NICOLE WRITE:-- bailadora2000@EXCITE.COM escribis: Correo Yahoo! - 6 MB, tecnologma antispam...

2933  PEDIDO DE TRADUCCION PARA UN TEMA TABU, ruego que alguien traduzca (3)
Estimados miembros de la Lista *Tango Argentino*, Existe de parte del publico extranjero (USA-Europa- Asia, etc.) Absoluta buena fe en sus distintas maneras de "creer en el Tango Argentino que reciben.-

2934  SHOW TANGO ....AND TANGO (1)
escribis: important because the Correo Yahoo! - 6 MB, tecnologma antispam !gratis!

2935  All V-Frames Great and Small (Blind Men and the Elephant) (2)
Dear List, In the whole V-Frame discussion, it seems we've found another "Blind men and the elephant" topic, which consume so many keystrokes on this list every so often. There are big V's, smaller V's,...

2936  V-frame visual aid (2)
The elephant tale is very appropriate here. To solve the mistery of V-frame Carrie helpfully reminded of link to pictures from Portland festival. Examples. Close embrace: https://www.close-embrace.com/latenightportland101604/pages/Pictur
e%20598.htm

2937  V-frame refrain (2)
Pictures could be worth a thousand of words, but here is good connection test of whether you are dancing in a close embrace or in V-frame. I have offered this Litmus test about nine months ago for open...

2938  NICOLE- AND TH "STARS DANCE" (1)
Nicole !Llevate a Yahoo! en tu Unifsn!

2939  TABOO SUBJECT TRANSLATION WORK ORDER (4)
I didn't see anyone do the translation. So, I thought I'd try it. I don't speak Spanish. There were parts I wasn't sure of. TABOO SUBJECT TRANSLATION WORK ORDER, I request that somebody translates...

2940  taboo subject, translation required (1)
Carlos Amok, (Pablo Gracia) seems to be embarked in a campaign to alert the foreign tango dancer that the traveling Argentine instructors teach a form of tango that is not danced in the salons of Buenos...

2941  Test results: It's a girl and a boy! Both dance tango! (1)
***Close embrace: https://pythia.uoregon.edu/~llynch/Tango-L/2003/msg05866.html Gary, you describe my experience with close embrace. Yes arms are helpful, however they are not required. ***Not a close...

2942  V-frame visiual aid (5)
Imagine my surprise to see my friend Chris Nassopolous, who is an advocate of close-embrace tango shown as an example of the V-embrace. https://www.close-embrace.com/latenightportland101604/pages/Pictur
e%20470.htm

2943  (fwd) Stupid remarks (1)
Dear Mr. Centella, It's good to hear that someone is enjoying the current tempest in a teapot over the v-frame embrace which has boiled over into pious pronouncements about the "one true way to...

2944  Ballroom Dancing at El Beso! (1)
Omigod! I just received an unsolicited email from Elizabeth Guerrero (I don't know who she is) stating she will be teaching ballroom dancing at El Beso... what's the world coming to? _https://www.elizabethguerrero.com.ar/entrelazados/June2004.htm_

2945  V-frame over analysis (2)
Well, thanks a lot, Rose - you may have ruined this activity for me. Now I'm going to be thinking "Do I have my heels down? My legs right? My arms relaxed? My body straight?" Sheesh... So which activity...

2946  Tango Historical Perspective (1)
Dear List, With the timeline presented in Tom's message, we are provided an invitation to look at actual documentable historical roots of the tango Diaspora (at last! tango anthropology resurfaces! So...

2947  Recommendations for detail-oriented teachers in Silicon Valley? (2)
I'm looking for suggestions of teachers who have beginning classes in Silicon Valley and nearby areas (roughly speaking, the southern half of the San Francisco Bay Area in California), and who specifically...

2948  FAMOUS TANGO TEACHER ......WHERE? (3)
escribis: Nicole, this is for you, (at the end , more bad news, I am sorry) The bad news: I receive 2 private emails from mens from your area talking about your tango is a Ballroom- Choreograph dance....

2949  Nicole in Miami (1)
From Carlos First you say that you received 2 private e-mails from mens in your first sentence, and in your last sentence you say, they asked me not publish HER names. I firmly believe that at least...

2950  Writing about tango (1)
It's always been difficult to write about the performing arts. I especially like Laurie Anderson's observation about music: Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Writing is cool and...