tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370884568160752646.post105187629939148710..comments2024-02-23T08:34:49.655-08:00Comments on My Tango Diaries: Tango HomeMarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08960763038363579526noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370884568160752646.post-57342332897887973042012-12-01T15:38:32.450-08:002012-12-01T15:38:32.450-08:00Thanks from me too for your comments, trying to cl...Thanks from me too for your comments, trying to clarify your US tango experiences in the light of your visit to BsAs. & I think you've put your finger on one thing: in BsAs tango isn't a big event, just something people go out and enjoy regularly. It just happens to be something amazing, remarkable, too...<br /><br />I've kind of instinctively avoided the European festival circuit, although I hear many good things of it. I doubt if the best festivals here are as extravagant as your Albuquerque experience, but I just feel more at home in the weekly milongas I go to. Somehow they seem the right places to be, they are more local, they feel right. The festivals give people a lot of dance time, which can't be bad, but if tango is to settle down outside Argentina, I suspect that it will have to follow that model of regular, well-organised milongas like those BsAs milongas where everyone is familiar to each other, may have known each other all their lives. It'll take a while before we get that far, but that's the way I hope things will go here. & there's a continuity in local milongas that's probably absent from the 'big event' festivals. Support your local milongas!Tangocommuterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14060601718946750364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370884568160752646.post-36703124412597894492012-12-01T01:19:35.072-08:002012-12-01T01:19:35.072-08:00Mari... thanks for your observations of BsAs, comi...Mari... thanks for your observations of BsAs, coming home to the warm embraces in Austin, and your expectations at a festival. I adore your perceptive view of the social ambiance of tango. You truly give your readers your heart. At times I fight feelings of envy of those who can go to BsAs because with two children still in school, I have vowed not to take a trip that would take away precious vacation time away from them. So I pray to the tango gods to bless me with an authentic embrace, a love for the music and the blessing of "calor humano" that Latinas/Latinos MOST miss when they leave their countries for the US or Europe. Since I have self-exiled myself from the epicenter of tango, I appreciate your keen social and personal observations such as your own that bring it's essence to those haven't or cannot visit.Tango Therapisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12548118004604256736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5370884568160752646.post-85806328667636778962012-11-30T06:59:28.874-08:002012-11-30T06:59:28.874-08:00I vividly remember the moment when a guy on the st...I vividly remember the moment when a guy on the street tried to punch me in the face and I instinctively danced a giro around him to avoid it (I'm not sure who was the more surprised). I totally get what you mean about tango being you rather than something you put on.<br /><br />The realisation I have finally come to and made peace with is that I actually was right all along. I like dancing with the dancers who feel like little oasis of calm. And there's nothing wrong with that. There's no need for me to go dance with someone and "enjoy it" because they're a teacher or "good" or whatever. <br /><br />That's how I came home. I realised it was here all along. Ghostnoreply@blogger.com