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Tbh here the followers complain about leaders trying to teach stuff that they (leaders) don't really understand. Unlike some of the other scenes, the gender ratio is relatively balanced though, unless there is a special event, which always attracts more followers for some reason. I would say...

Even without role switching cabeceo is a generally unsatisfactory protocol for these reasons. I want to dance one type of music with certain partners, another type of music with other partners, and some music I don't want to dance at all. With cabeceo, unless you know the person well you don't...

I hate social media, so I'd rather have the AI find out when the milongas are so I don't have to. We have a bunch of milongas that run on inconsistent schedules.

Someone who is not communicating useful information to 95% of their students is not a good teacher, regardless of intention

But your anecdote in the first paragraph suggests that the accent isn't actually important

I sympathise, happens to me all the time too (minus the cat)

How do you define way of life? And how do you distinguish a culture affinity from simple addiction? (this could apply to both salsa, tango and insert_random_dance_here)

I think current international milonga/event culture is just as much a distortion. Too sanitized and formal (and also commercialized.)

It's gone from Rioplatense lower class to Parisian salons to Buenos Aires mass market to underground to the stage to reinvented milongas to "social" media and tourism. How could the culture have remained the same?

I've danced with both partners sitting down using arms + upper body to tango music many times at milongas with partners who were suffering from injury or foot pain. it is kind of an inversion in that instead of keeping the upper half mostly still and the lower half active, it's the other way...

No, of course not. I deliberately forgot everything and reconstructed it from more general principles. And I didn't grow up in a rough neighbourhood. Therefore any "mugre" elements must be, essentially, acting.

I guess "the version of tango most of the teachers are promoting isn't good" is at least a fairly common minority point of view

The prompt is a lens that focuses your attention on different elements (or combinations of elements) of the music

I believe that no amount of tango lessons can teach the feeling. You have to discover it yourself.

Tbh I would not be surprised if a different message is received half the time, that's just how music/dance is, but it's fine so long as they like what they thought it was.

Here are example contexts, they don't have to be all used at once: What my partner perceives the emotional content of the music as How does my partner like to dance with me Does this song suggest a particular character type or tell a story Verbal cues from song lyrics Surrounding...

The hierarchy goes: What do I want to say/express in the current context -> musicality -> movements/technique Not the other way around I think it's important to have something to say. I don't think it really matters whether that thing is "mugre" or not. Besides, one shouldn't say the same...

As I said, that's probably what they wanted to demonstrate but weren't able to, so they published what they had

Here's the actual paper if anyone's interested since the second hand reporters are not doing a good job. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3731459.3773332 It's probable that what they really hoped to show was brain sync in improvised movements, but they couldn't isolate it with their experimental...

Wear earplugs. Have ChatGPT prepare one explanation of why the track you just played is historically and culturally significant for when people complain. Use it for every track. Play 3rd-rate GA orchestras, guardia vieja, and obscure Troilo that no one ever heard of, with the songs in random...