5801  Portland house for rent (1)
Hi, I know it's slightly off topic, but if there is anyone interested in renting a beautiful 3 BR house (with hot tub! great for sore feet ladies!) in Portland to come tango, feel free to contact...

5802  Retiring Meet in the Middle (1)
Dear tango friends, Just so you know, if you were not here, you missed the last Meet in the Middle Tango Festival in Mt Vernon, Missouri. It was 6 years running, and this and the last few years, I...

5803  Missing Magic Thread (1)
So, I'm into tango for 20 years. I swear I'm starting to get it! ;-) At least, I can't help but feeling things are being revealed. That's why I'm always on my knees ... a lot going on that one...

5804  TANGO 2000 ............For DUMMIES (33)
TANGO 2000 FOR DUMMIES Lesson 1 Nuevo Tango The challenge: Argentine Tango is forever changing and evolving and that?s a good thing. I admire the younger generation for it?s Nuevo Tango and all...

5805  Navigation abuse (1)
[Thesis on personal space deleted.] Sorry, Aron, I think you need to consider the fact that you're the one not getting it (and perhaps therefore unconsciously practising this behaviour too?). The phenomenon...

5806  Tango 2000 for dummies (2)
The title of this thread is correct and descriptive. It is very simple, when the floor is crowded, it does not matter what tango style you dance you have to keep your dancing very compact,adjust to...

5807  How to Defeat Kung Fu Tandas (1)
Kung Fu Tanda by Gustavo Naveira comes to mind https://www.tangoandchaos.org/chapt_6school/36nav3.htm Sergey How to Defeat Kung Fu Tandas Passive Aggressive Tanda a subtle way to defeat the common...

5808  Can't we all get along /Was TANGO 2000 ...For (1)
DUMMIES I agree with Trini. A Washington organizer was hounded to play more alternative music at milongas. But he's a traditionalist and resisted. It got so bad he sent a message asking for responses...

5809  Tango 2000....for dummies (3)
Reading the different posts on this subject... It seems that is clear that traditional tango dancers are happy with their milongas, if they ever go to another milonga they adjust to the rules and characteristics...

5810  Missing Magic, UNESCO declaration (2)
In response to my largely rhetorical question between international interests in Tango vs. local Buenos Aires Tango interests: paraphrase) that foreign wealth and a "convert's enthusiasm" may very...

5811  So what is authentic Argentine tango? (5)
(Resent, because this borrowed computer had Rich Text as a default) Reading the further postings on Tango 2000... for Dummies and the off list emails I have recieved, raises the suggestion that, the...

5812  Tango NAZI- STYLE POLICE (2)
This is a reply to Social Tango rules and Milonga regulations .. if you follow these regulatory "Tango-Nazi"? suggestions - Tango will STAY underground, no new people will come - Tango will be danced...

5813  Milonga Rules, Nazism, and the Preservation of (2)
Tango Culture I realize this was said in jest. What I cannot understand is why some dancers object to trying to recreate Argentine tango culture outside Argentina. Tango is not only the dance, it...

5814  Just do it (2)
It amuses me that some people seem to think that diversity in tango will die if milongas aren't separated. That's like saying that heart surgeons should attend conferences for general practitioners...

5815  natural separation (1)
Simply, the community is not large enough to support separate traditional/nuevo milongas. Also, for an average milonga attendance of 40-60 people (Budapest), there are over a dozen people who do...

5816  No place left to dance (10)
I've been to Denver twice, in 2004 and 2005, and to San Diego in 2007 (same festival concept). Navigation was pretty good in Denver the times I went, but some of the locals in San Diego didn't realize...

5817  1800+ posts on nuevo since 2003 on Tango-L (1)
It will never end!!! A few hours more trawling on Tango L has brought this classic: ?It would be helpful to tango event promoters outside Argentina to be clear in advertising if their events are designed...

5818  Denver Festival Milonga Floor Metrics Contribute to (4)
Lane Formation Tom wrote: "As the organizer for the Denver & San Diego festivals, I can reassure you that the concept of festivals for social dancing remains: "By Dancers; for Dancers". The milongas...

5819  ?C?digo -- historia? (10)
With all the conversation about c?digos -- where did they start, how did they evolve? Certainly not in the saloons, brothels, streets, ... At the barrio/cultural association dances where tango was...

5820  Tango to SLOW waltz? (4)
I was surprised a while back by a beautiful tango sounding slow waltz played by a guest DJ from Argentina. Instrumentation definitely had a Buenos tango quality, but it wasn't really tango in my mind...

5821  Codigos ?...historia? (4)
I just found something about "Cortinas" their origin which I wrote in 2001. c.roques@mchsi.com wrote: This whole situation can be avoided by the male engaging in...

5822  Tango in Toulouse--Part 6 (1)
Tango in Toulouse--Part 6 Le Bikini Ramonville Saturday, July 4, 2009 11:00 Janet, Robert, and I get lost on the highway again, trying to find "Le Bikini." You'd think our misadventures arriving here...

5823  Tango in Toulouse--Part 7 (1)
Tango in Toulouse--Part 7 Le Bikini Ramonville Sunday, July 5, 2009 12:30 AM The fashion show and performances are over. The DJ is at work again. Robert has gone off and found someone to dance with....

5824  Milonga "Codigos" (1)
This term has been bandied about a lot. It doesn't help that the word "codigo" (code), while used in the sense of "social codes," nonetheless conjures up connotations of mystery and secrecy. I much...

5825  Tango Waltz (2)
Regarding slow tango waltz, Mary Menz alerted me to A Las Cinco de la Girlada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdyVrmBOURs Thanks Mary!