I am just re-discovering cyber-tango.com, Garrit Fleischmann’s excellent resource collection on tango.
As it turns out, his links to some articles are out of date. As such I have taken a look and found some articles in archive.org. It would be a shame to lose those texts!
- Tango, so that you know who I am an Essay by Jorge I. Oclander
But allow your eyes to look at the desolate stars and the haunting shadows of the musicians of Forever Tango on the stage, close them and listen to the pain of the bandoneon, search the passion, and the sadness of the dancers caught in the tidal wave of lust, arrogance and solitude and you will feel the “sad emotion” that is the seed and the semen of its immortality.
This collection seems to be lost. Why? Because the articles were published as inside word documents, which seem to not be collected by archive.org.
However, there are archives of the mailinglist “Tango-L”, where you can search posts back to 1994.
- Seeking all things tango By BABITA PERSAUD in St. Petersburg Times, published June 19, 1998
But Parisians loved the raw emotion. They embraced it, and because the wealthy Argentines thought so much of their French peers and considered Buenos Aires the Paris of the Western Hemisphere, they, too, accepted the dance. The tango returned to South America with status and began to take on a more romantic and sophisticated air.
Tango in Montevideo, ein Reisebericht von Eckart Haerter (Deutsch)
Elements of Dance Etiquette (Aria Nosratinia - ballroom dancing)
The question of whom to ask for a dance is not as trivial as it may seem. Force of habit, dancing capabilities, or personal attraction may incline a dancer to dance with the same partner (or a few partners) all the time. This, however, is not helpful to the social dynamics of a dance, therefore dance etiquette speaks out on the choice of partners: To ensure a diversity of partnerships on the floor, and to give everyone a chance to dance, etiquette rules against asking the same partner for more than two consecutive dances.
- Notes of a Tango Traveler - Tangoing in Holland, New year 1989/99 in Amsterdam and Nijmegen, by Matej Oresic (Ithaca/NY, USA)
With time passing, unusual things were happening. Some used some alternative space for dancing, for example … Toward the morning, some were sleeping, some dancing, some were talking with whatever was left of their voice, and yes, there was food too. It really is a wonderful feeling when the light of day comes through the windows and the dance floor is still full. Then one can take a nap, come back at around noon, have a breakfast, and continue dancing. Then another nap in the evening and one is competely ready for the next all-night tango shift. You might think this kind of marathon is a torture … but you are wrong. In tango dancing one shouldn’t spend too much energy, and this kind of event really requires that, and those who would be trying to show off with some complicated figures would quickly fade. In fact I could feel loosening up my body and developing better and better tango movement during this marathon. One also gets picky with choosing the music to dance to, and does not dance to any kind of music just because there is so and so much time left until the end of the milonga. This is very important, and makes the experience of a dance with a particular partner and music even more perfect and magic.
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