4626  Tango A La Turca

Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:55:49 -0400
From: "Keith" <keith@tangohk.com>
Subject: [Tango-L] Tango A La Turca
To: tango-l@mit.edu

Metin Yazir wrote:

"21 teachers, one amazing festival: TANGO A LA TURCA
December 1-3, New York '06

Metin
Murat & Michelle (NY)
Bulent & Marika (Montreal)
Somer & Agape (Chicago)
Eray & Martina (Boston)
Doruk & Erin (NY)
Jason & Gulden (Durham)
Burak & Maria (Chicago)
Alkan & Sanem (DC)
Semiral & Gonca (Vancouver & NY)
Jak & Elena (NY)"

End Quote.

Why would anyone want to attend a Tango Festival that doesn't feature Argentinean instructors? Is this common in the US? From my experience, non-Argentines pale in comparison with the 'real thing'.

Keith

Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 22:45:03 -0700
From: "David Liu" <dwyliu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Tango A La Turca
To: tango-l@mit.edu
<30ad4e030610092245p55216546s2f59ef614be77d8f@mail.gmail.com>

Keith,

I don't think that, by definition, Argentine instructors are better than
non-Argentine instructors.

Rather, instructors who are invited to teach from another country typically
cost more (because of the airfare). Also, they have to be just plain better
than average to get the invitation in the first place.

It is this phenomena which I believe you see. There are plenty of bad
dancers everywhere (Argentina included). Similarly with instructors
(although it is probably more competative there -- but that is more an issue
of sales ability).

Best,
David

On 10/9/06, Keith <keith@tangohk.com> wrote:

>
> Metin Yazir wrote:
>
> "21 teachers, one amazing festival: TANGO A LA TURCA
> December 1-3, New York '06
>
> Metin
> Murat & Michelle (NY)
> Bulent & Marika (Montreal)
> Somer & Agape (Chicago)
> Eray & Martina (Boston)
> Doruk & Erin (NY)
> Jason & Gulden (Durham)
> Burak & Maria (Chicago)
> Alkan & Sanem (DC)
> Semiral & Gonca (Vancouver & NY)
> Jak & Elena (NY)"
>
> End Quote.
>
> Why would anyone want to attend a Tango Festival that doesn't feature
> Argentinean instructors? Is this common in the US? From my experience,
> non-Argentines pale in comparison with the 'real thing'.
>
> Keith
>
>
>

Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:19:51 +0900
From: "astrid" <astrid@ruby.plala.or.jp>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Tango A La Turca
To: <tango-l@mit.edu>

> Metin Yazir wrote:
>
> "21 teachers, one amazing festival: TANGO A LA TURCA

> Why would anyone want to attend a Tango Festival that doesn't feature

Argentinean instructors? Is this common in the US? From my experience,
non-Argentines pale in comparison with the 'real thing'.

>

I am just back from Turkey, and I did go out there to check out some of the
Istanbul milongas. And I found that Turks can be quite interesting to dance
with. Different, yes, but they can be a lot of fun in their own way. After
traveling around the country for a while I got the impression that every
Turkish man knows how to dance at least Turksih folklore, and most of them
do not feel inhibited about it and are also quite musical. A friend told me
that tango is actually immensely popular in Turkey. Atatuerk himself used to
be a tango dancer, and he told me that they have had tango practicas and
workshops with 120-200 people attending, and umpteen milongas in Istanbul. .
I went to one milonga where they also played Turkish tango music, Turkey has
a few tango composers of it's own. There was one that I liked so much that I
asked a local tanguero to write down the muscician's name for me.
Unfortunately, I never got around to look for his CDs, I just found time to
load up on Tarkan, Mustafa Sandal and such. I am still listening to those...
But I would appreciate if anyone on the list could send me some
recommendations on Turkish tango CDs available through amazon.com/amazon.de
or some other online store.

Astrid

Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:29:37 +1000
From: "john" <john@lowry.com.au>
Subject: [Tango-L] Tango A La Turca
To: <tango-l@mit.edu>

Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:55:49 -0400