The key to doing boot camps with your real life partner is to bring more people! Another couple if it’s a strictly 1:1 with no rotation. No teacher/maestro/organiser has ever stopped two couples swapping amongst themselves. Another follower to share the leader also works well. Two leaders sharing a follower is always terrible! Neither leader feels they get ample time to nail the vocabulary and learn the technique
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ArbeeNYC
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Lovely piece of music.To our audience here on DF: Plegaria is the tango of death
opendoor
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..and a horrible history, think you know that. I still have contact with Esther Bejarano, the girl with the accordion in the second row of the picture (click link). She survived and is 95 now and still active.
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itwillhappen
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In a separated discussion on Facebook reported someone, that this boot camp contains good beginner lessons. So it may also be that only the advertising text is for the bin, of course, these goals get never achieved.
ArbeeNYC
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Yes, but lovely. Is it played often at milongas I wonder?
ArbeeNYC
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By the way I see nothing in the link (with the photo) that refers to the Fresedo tango itself (I read French). Maybe I'll check out a few other resources.
ArbeeNYC
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Ohhhh, OK. Now I see what's going on. There's an extensive discussion about the author and the song's history here: https://www.ellitoral.com/index.php/diarios/2013/06/29/escenariosysociedad/SOCI-06.html
Not a pretty picture.
It certainly does happen, as illustrated by this story: http://balazstango.blogspot.com/2018/10/absurd-story-about-importance-of.html
Thank all of you who replied. I am sorry that you are discouraging about
TBC because I have looked at several other weekenders (W) and they
look far more unsuitable for me than TBC. As an incompetent beginner
(B) I need lots of B classes. All the Ws I have seen offer:
2 nights at an expensive hotel, meals, evening milongas, a small no.
of classes, mostly I or A and lots of "free time".
Thank you
TBC because I have looked at several other weekenders (W) and they
look far more unsuitable for me than TBC. As an incompetent beginner
(B) I need lots of B classes. All the Ws I have seen offer:
2 nights at an expensive hotel, meals, evening milongas, a small no.
of classes, mostly I or A and lots of "free time".
Thank you
These are not beginners' classes.
opendoor
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Some years ago I started a thread concerning forbidden tangos. Perhaps some links are broken meanwhile?
Superstition in Tango
Yesterday in a small milonga, they played Adios Muchachos. No one cared about it. I break off dancing and told the woman that this was a non-danceable tango. She showed no understanding for this custom, at all. Then she asked a bit angry a man who stood beside the dance floor why he wasn´t...
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itwillhappen
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We all here don't know anything about the quality of the classes.
But the topics written in the advertising text will never ever get handled at a weekend.
So you might well test it and report here afterwards.
JournalInTime
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If you really want to learn tango from almost zero, boot camps simply aren't the way to go. There's just no way around a lot of weekly group lessons and prácticas, and eventually private lessons – occasionally going back to the same topics to refine them. The precise investment of time varies, but it's usually measured in years if you're doing weekly work.