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But you won't necessarily know why.

Now this is something a few of us have been speculating about for a while (training a neural network specifically on old tango recordings to clean them up). I'm curious what their actual training set was. Some of their showcase examples are genuinely impressive and others introduce a bit too...

We can go for chicken and you can criticize my performances if you want!

You just described the various organiser/teacher networks, which indeed have absolutely nothing to do with ability.

You're a better dancer than you think you are

tango can be really sensual, it's just transmitted directly through the embrace and sometimes invisible. But generally once one is familiar with a dance move it becomes internally desexualized

I think they were primarily of use for learning what steps exist. A lot of the other information was varying degrees of inaccurate / incomplete / inconsistent / incompatible. At some point I had to consciously try to forget everything. I believe that cross-training something other than tango is...

I suggest just going to some city you want to visit anyway and not having any expectations of the milongas.

I actually don't notice much correlation between follower demographics and embrace preference

BA is a special case where if you go to the touristic milongas there are a lot of local men either trying to pick up female tourists, sell lessons, or both + there are group tours which just dance with the taxi dancers on their own table. I thought the less touristic milongas were generally very...

... OK, so they can vibe code a bunch of features, but now anyone can do that, and all those features are useless anyway. And I chose my DJ player precisely because it doesn't have useless features cluttering up the UI.

You are describing the experience of a cult initiate. I never bought into the cult and I remember my reaction: For what conceivable reason could these mediocre dancers think they're too good to dance with anyone?

Of course it can. All it needs is a critical mass of sufficiently attractive people showing up.

I'm just trying to translate the intent, I make no statement about what I think the English term should be thought about using the word "folk" tbh but decided against it

You found one of the more complicated to translate words that has to do with Argentinian cultural identity. Honestly I'd just translate it as Argentine waltz

Punished in what sense? I just dance my own personal (very free and expressive) style and I'm rewarded with the attention of the partners I want to dance with. Not being invited to encuentros that I don't want to attend is no punishment

This is partly a mental compression problem. In order to be able to improvise coherently, you need the brain space to be cleared, which will eventually happen when you no longer have to consciously think about the details of the movement. A useful practice for now is to use movements you're...

I suspect venue hire charges inflating and people wanting more consistent sleep schedules

In most places you can dance whatever role you feel like dancing and not be made to feel unwelcome for doing so. But tolerance is a separate issue. The claim was that the tango scene is trending towards mainly women dancing with other women and I do not observe this happening.

I don't think it is all of tango, just the evolution of a subculture.