Is Tango Danced on the Falkland Islands?

[sixela]

In front of the telly, I'd guess.

Wrong :-].

 

[tangobro]

... And when they weren't showing off their own dancing, they were positioning their follower to show her body (and booty) off to their rivals.
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...Having the woman appear totally enamored of him (and being enamored of him) was part of a milonguero's goal, not just so he could potentially take her home, but so his buddies would see that he had won her over.(even if only for the length of the tanda)
{snip}
...No-one could impress other milongueros by being a rude boor to other dancers. It was totally contrary to the suave and sophisticated image they were trying to create of themselves.

I've snipped out parts for brevity but all of Zoopsia's comments are in accord with what I've heard from the milongueros who travelled to my area, what I've read of their interviews & seen in their interviews with Monica Paz.

of course the reason for dancing the woman with her back to the tables was to protect her from bumps, but his buddies at the tables appreciated it too.

This was mentioned by a few dancers from Bs.As. usually mentioned when the teacher was talking to the guys, separate from the women. In one case his partner overheard him. She said "I don't want men looking at my butt when I dance". He smiled & said "men are looking at your butt if you dance or not".

 

[jantango]

They fessed up to Mónica Paz (links higher up in the thread), and she definitely seems a woman to me.

I have viewed all of the milonguero/a interviews made by Monica Paz. Can you point out which milongueros admitted they showed off on the milonga floor? I will review your list and retract my comments if necessary.

www.youtube.com/practimilongueros is one place to find the interviews.

 

[sixela]

There's no need for you to 'retract' anything, or even to determine 'who's right'. Since showing off is such an ill-defined term, it's a futile debate anyway...

...given that the link allows anyone to see the primary sources and make up his or her own mind (without needing to be fenced in by the narrow confines of an argument), I'd simply encourage everyone to look at the interviews.

 

[Peaches]

isn't that what Valentino did with his film?

That wasn't _REAL_ tango! It was just "tango" for gullible rubes!

 

[Steve Pastor]

Valentino reportedly learned tango from an Argentine room mate, and was a dance escort type in the fashionable dance places in NYC. What was put on film... Who knows?

 

[Peaches]

isn't that what Valentino did with his film?

That wasn't _REAL_ tango! It was just "tango" for gullible rubes!

 

[opendoor]

We´re all gullible rubes, somehow, somewhere, somewhen. So may I ask you to dance, my lovely yokel?

 

[opendoor]

Is tango danced on the falkland islands?

I really don´t know, but at 1:01 Copes talks about an emergency landing on the malvinas...



By the way, I found this vid worth watching (though it´s lengthy at times) because the historical constellation of Copes-Piazzolla (nuevo dancing and nuevo music) became much clearer for me now.