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The smaller communities generally are too small to support full time teachers anyway so theres no real question of trying to become a full time professional there. IMO the most valuable thing teachers/organizers actually do is community building by organizing events and recruiting new people...

That's because there is an oversupply of people of average ability trying to turn their hobby into a career.

there are a couple of generic dance studios, but also clubs, community centres or other venues that happen to have a suitable floor

The milonga venue should function as a third space. It doesn't really matter exactly what type of space it is so long as the community creates a good atmosphere We don't have dedicated tango venues either, just places which also host other dance styles. I wouldn't mind a dedicated tango venue...

I thought it was (non-exclusive) pair bonding mediated by oxytocin. That fits with my experiences anyway. Could well be different things for different people though.

well we know that tango in particular originated in lower class nightlife in the Rio de la Plata, so mating ritual isn't too far off

There are quite a few active South Asian dancers in London at the current time, I think roughly matching the city population breakdown. The scene is very cosmopolitan and I think the amount of ethnic bias in dance partner selection is on average low (people who don't like "foreigners" would...

Overtraining causes injuries even with good technique, just ask the professional ballet dancers We are not really doing movements anywhere near as strenuous in tango, but I should note that just because a movement looks good on the outside doesn't mean it was not performed in a way that causes...

... what are people even doing? Lifts?

It could be fun to have people vote on the next tanda in real time, but honestly I think most people don't want the effort. I occasionally ask people if they have favourite song requests, but they usually don't

The AI can't read the room yet. Apart from that, I could already write a program to generate serviceable milonga playlists based on my own curation if I wanted to, but I am not sure it is a good idea to release such a thing.

Actually I would say "white" is too general of a classification in this case, and people from southern or eastern Europe are just as overrepresented in the London tango scene relative to the overall city population as east Asia. South Asia seems roughly proportionally representative. Maybe part...

I don't know anyone who started dancing because of the TV shows, which are all about competition and don't make it look accessible.

I think it is an addiction, but I don't judge because we have all been addicted to some degree or other, probably still are otherwise we wouldn't be posting on here :)

No one really understands anything. I don't either. I'm just always trying to find a better version than what currently exists.

AI generated posts (#41) are also cringe

The whole point of being "elite" is to do pretentious stuff to try and cover up the fact that none of them are good dancers.

yeah my problems with the elitism are - It's a dance not a way of life. At least it shouldn't be. Milonguero used to be a derogatory term for a reason - If you can only create the experience you want with a very low proportion of dancers, then you understand the dance a lot less than you...

Sometimes I've been half of the only couple dancing it and TBH we didn't sign up to do an unscheduled performance either, it is just that some people also enjoy dancing other styles and we are just dancing it because we like the music. It's up to the DJ to decide whether it's contributing to...

As someone who dances to the cortinas sometimes, I don't actually want a "tanda" of it because these songs are typically 4-5 minutes long already. Anyway, most of the DJs of Argentinian origin around here set the expectation already that they'll just let the cortina play out (one song) if enough...