What can we do to contribute to the health and continued development of Bay Area Tango community?
Tango is fun.
It makes us happy.
But Tango is also responsibility.
What can we do to contribute to the health and continued development of Bay Area Tango community?
Here are my answers:
Milongueros and milongueras: 1- Dance better. 2- Behave better. 3- Dress better.
Milonga organizers: 1- Choose good DJs. 2- Give milongueros the necessary set up a milonga should have. 3- Pay attention to what actually happens on the dance floor. 4- Get to know, greet at the entrance, and say goodbye at the exit, to everyone coming to the milonga. 5- Introduce new people at the milonga to the regulars. 6- Travel to Buenos Aires and go to traditional milongas with high level of dancing to see how things are organized and run there.
DJs: 1- Go to Buenos Aires and visit milongas to learn how to do their job, not one time, but several times a year.
Teachers: 1- Stop trying to attract customers by showing them steps inappropriate to the milonga, and therefore, to Tango itself. 2- Go to the milongas, and show their students and the community that the way they teach is the way they dance at the milongas. 3- Go to Buenos Aires not one, but several times a year, study there with the milongueros, meaning: the ones that dance Tango. Prove themselves to have their place in the wide Tango community, and not to be mere local instructors without any connection to Buenos Aires, and therefore, to Tango.
To follow these guidelines, we will get together and put them in practice in all my classes and events through the Bay Area.
I am looking forward to seeing you and dancing with you.
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