Comments on: Who? http://sallycat.wordpress.com has moved to http://sallycatway.com Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:16:15 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: sallycat http://sallycat.wordpress.com/about/#comment-1466 sallycat Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:44:52 +0000 #comment-1466 Valentin I hear you. And I understand you! I so hope the rest of the blog does not disappoint, and that you keep enjoying right up until the latest post! SC Valentin
I hear you.
And I understand you!
I so hope the rest of the blog does not disappoint, and that you keep enjoying right up until the latest post!

SC

]]> By: Valentin http://sallycat.wordpress.com/about/#comment-1458 Valentin Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:56:40 +0000 #comment-1458 Sally, For the moment I avoid to read the latest post so that I can better follow the changes in your life (with more thrill). But the idea of concentrating the experience in a book is great. Speaking of "own experience" I only wanted to put the accent on things that are of common importance for all tango dancers in the world. I was much impressed by your description of the "decorated boxes". Because I have "only" 3 years of tango experience, but I had the chance to be in Buenos Aires just in the beginning of my tango-life, without being spoiled by numerous workshops here, were the "boxes" were created. So when I came back I was hurt by the difference between the milongas "here and there". And by the domination of people with long time experience, full with bad habits and bad floor behaviour. But the opinion of a "beginner" doesn't count for them, so I think a translation, even a good idea, wouldn't help to change something. An exemple - a couple here visited recently Buenos Aires for a first time after more than 10 years of local workshop experience and they found that in Buenos Aires the tangueros don't dance a "good tango". It was useless even to try to change their opinion ... However it's too big topic for the place here, I think. Hope, now you will understand me right : starting to read, my first though was "Oh, a new Sally Potter ...", now I enjoy enormously your post! Valentin Sally,
For the moment I avoid to read the latest post so that I can better follow the changes in your life (with more thrill). But the idea of concentrating the experience in a book is great. Speaking of “own experience” I only wanted to put the accent on things that are of common importance for all tango dancers in the world. I was much impressed by your description of the “decorated boxes”. Because I have “only” 3 years of tango experience, but I had the chance to be in Buenos Aires just in the beginning of my tango-life, without being spoiled by numerous workshops here, were the “boxes” were created. So when I came back I was hurt by the difference between the milongas “here and there”. And by the domination of people with long time experience, full with bad habits and bad floor behaviour. But the opinion of a “beginner” doesn’t count for them, so I think a translation, even a good idea, wouldn’t help to change something. An exemple – a couple here visited recently Buenos Aires for a first time after more than 10 years of local workshop experience and they found that in Buenos Aires the tangueros don’t dance a “good tango”. It was useless even to try to change their opinion …
However it’s too big topic for the place here, I think.
Hope, now you will understand me right : starting to read, my first though was “Oh, a new Sally Potter …”, now I enjoy enormously your post!
Valentin

]]> By: sallycat http://sallycat.wordpress.com/about/#comment-1442 sallycat Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:26:25 +0000 #comment-1442 Valentin How great you have discovered my blog and that you have found something worth passing on to others you know. It would give me great pleasure to know that you might translate some of what I write and share it in other countries. You are of course right that it is indeed only my own experience but I think you will see from the comments that others too understand where I am coming from, as you do. As you will see when you get to the latest posts I am now working on writing 'an essential guide for the tango traveller' to Buenos Aires and I may include some extracts from my blog or at least some condensed versions of some of the thoughts I have had over my time here. Who knows, maybe one day the book will get translated too and so reach more people! Still for now it is a work in progress. Thank you very much for your comment, and I hope you enjoy the rest of what you read. Stay in touch. SC Valentin

How great you have discovered my blog and that you have found something worth passing on to others you know. It would give me great pleasure to know that you might translate some of what I write and share it in other countries. You are of course right that it is indeed only my own experience but I think you will see from the comments that others too understand where I am coming from, as you do.
As you will see when you get to the latest posts I am now working on writing ‘an essential guide for the tango traveller’ to Buenos Aires and I may include some extracts from my blog or at least some condensed versions of some of the thoughts I have had over my time here.
Who knows, maybe one day the book will get translated too and so reach more people!
Still for now it is a work in progress.
Thank you very much for your comment, and I hope you enjoy the rest of what you read.
Stay in touch.

SC

]]> By: Valentin Tiede http://sallycat.wordpress.com/about/#comment-1441 Valentin Tiede Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:41:13 +0000 #comment-1441 Dear Sally, I found your blog one or two weeks ago, so I’m still reading the older post before coming to the “last news”. It’s of course your personal point of view about many things of your New Life in Argentina, but with this experience in the Buenos Aires Tango-World, you have found many wonderful things of so common importance that some pages become really a kind of a Tango Gospel. Reading “More tango lessons” (from Dec.2007, with the attached post from two other blogs) and now “When tango cultures cross /… meet” (from Jan./ Apr. 2008), my first thougt was the desire to translate them in French (where I live) and in German (I often go to milongas there) and give them to some persons… , with the hope that perhaps it would help to break the “boxes … made of steps, of sequences, of moves, of anxiety to ‘perform’… ”. Because not only that a women can suffer, when dancing with a “decorated box”, but also because this “tango-box” destroys the conditions on the milonga floor, taking a lot of place with the complicated ‘steps’ or moving in the wrong direction with a complicated ‘sequence’, with the aim to show his ‘performance’ and to be the best and the most “advanced” dancer… And how you can dance with the music, when your main occupation on the dance floor is how to avoid a collision and how to protect the follower. It’s not only the “British reserve”, what you describe. This is the common Europe-mentality (and I guess, an American mentality as well), drilled in high performance, always in competition to be the best, giving always the best appearance… in a word – an Extroverted Tango, without a soul and feelings … But what a value have the feelings for the performance mentality? Also there are, more and more often, a lot of follower who dance ‘in competition” only to show adornos or other decoration skills, to attract the attention without being “in couple” with their leader. But what is worse : this performance mentality dominate the workshops. “Famous” tangueros from Buenos Aires come to Europe/USA to sell wokshops adapted only to what the students want to learn and teaching … a “stage” performance for a tango-show, not applicable on a milonga floor, and having nothing to do with the “Tango Argentino”. And the result is the competition “who can do more and who is the best” … in the show of the “decorated Tango-boxes”. … I will now continue the reading with pleasure. Valentin Dear Sally,

I found your blog one or two weeks ago, so I’m still reading the older post before coming to the “last news”. It’s of course your personal point of view about many things of your New Life in Argentina, but with this experience in the Buenos Aires Tango-World, you have found many wonderful things of so common importance that some pages become really a kind of a Tango Gospel.
Reading “More tango lessons” (from Dec.2007, with the attached post from two other blogs) and now “When tango cultures cross /… meet” (from Jan./ Apr. 2008), my first thougt was the desire to translate them in French (where I live) and in German (I often go to milongas there) and give them to some persons… , with the hope that perhaps it would help to break the “boxes … made of steps, of sequences, of moves, of anxiety to ‘perform’… ”. Because not only that a women can suffer, when dancing with a “decorated box”, but also because this “tango-box” destroys the conditions on the milonga floor, taking a lot of place with the complicated ‘steps’ or moving in the wrong direction with a complicated ‘sequence’, with the aim to show his ‘performance’ and to be the best and the most “advanced” dancer… And how you can dance with the music, when your main occupation on the dance floor is how to avoid a collision and how to protect the follower.
It’s not only the “British reserve”, what you describe. This is the common Europe-mentality (and I guess, an American mentality as well), drilled in high performance, always in competition to be the best, giving always the best appearance… in a word – an Extroverted Tango, without a soul and feelings … But what a value have the feelings for the performance mentality?
Also there are, more and more often, a lot of follower who dance ‘in competition” only to show adornos or other decoration skills, to attract the attention without being “in couple” with their leader.
But what is worse : this performance mentality dominate the workshops. “Famous” tangueros from Buenos Aires come to Europe/USA to sell wokshops adapted only to what the students want to learn and teaching … a “stage” performance for a tango-show, not applicable on a milonga floor, and having nothing to do with the “Tango Argentino”. And the result is the competition “who can do more and who is the best” … in the show of the “decorated Tango-boxes”.
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I will now continue the reading with pleasure.
Valentin

]]> By: Gracee http://sallycat.wordpress.com/about/#comment-1052 Gracee Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:52:18 +0000 #comment-1052 Hi, Sally. If you are in my neighborhood, or plan to be in Las Canitas, please check out my bijouterie on-line first before you head this way and come see me. I am sure you will find something you like amongst the accessories I carry. It is a nice change from the regular ones you see at various ferias and malls. And it would be a great chance to meet you. Good luck. Gracee Hi, Sally.
If you are in my neighborhood, or plan to be in Las Canitas, please check out my bijouterie on-line first before you head this way and come see me. I am sure you will find something you like amongst the accessories I carry.
It is a nice change from the regular ones you see at various ferias and malls.
And it would be a great chance to meet you.
Good luck.
Gracee

]]> By: Jon http://sallycat.wordpress.com/about/#comment-886 Jon Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:58:02 +0000 #comment-886 Just to let you know I never forgot about you and have been following your Journey. Just to let you know I never forgot about you and have been following your Journey.

]]> By: carollina http://sallycat.wordpress.com/about/#comment-491 carollina Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:40:42 +0000 #comment-491 hola sally!! hoy decidi entrar a tu pagina y leer con mucha atencion...para saber como pensas y sentis...y la verdad me gusto mucho..... los extraño.....hace muchisimo que no nos vemos ....estoy triste por eso.... espero que esten bien... los mejores deseos y millones d besos caro hola sally!!

hoy decidi entrar a tu pagina y leer con mucha atencion…para saber como pensas y sentis…y la verdad me gusto mucho…..
los extraño…..hace muchisimo que no nos vemos ….estoy triste por eso….
espero que esten bien…
los mejores deseos y millones d besos

caro

]]> By: Manuela http://sallycat.wordpress.com/about/#comment-253 Manuela Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:54:10 +0000 #comment-253 Sally, we met us for a dinner in Milan with Chuka and Annalisa before you gone to BA...maybe you don't remember me...In that occasion I was in a lather... but I immediately felt you're a great inspirational and creative person. Now, reading your story I'm impressed to touch your courage...I'd like to change my life but where's the inspiration? Where looking for a new lease on life? That's good example! Thanks so much Sally. Big hugs, and best luck with wherever your angel takes you Hope to see you soon...maybe in BA!! Happy dances!! Manu Sally,
we met us for a dinner in Milan with Chuka and Annalisa before you gone to BA…maybe you don’t remember me…In that occasion I was in a lather… but I immediately felt you’re a great inspirational and creative person.
Now, reading your story I’m impressed to touch your courage…I’d like to change my life but where’s the inspiration? Where looking for a new lease on life?
That’s good example! Thanks so much Sally.
Big hugs, and best luck with wherever your angel takes you
Hope to see you soon…maybe in BA!! Happy dances!!
Manu

]]> By: Maria http://sallycat.wordpress.com/about/#comment-237 Maria Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:18:54 +0000 #comment-237 Wow Sally! I have been at home for a month now and only now i found the little pink personal card you gave with your blog address. i couldnt stop reading for hours of course and all the memories from Buenos Aires have raised from the bottoms of my soul... i'm sorry i never really got to know you... but now that you've got an appartment in BA (congratulations!) i know where to find you! keep dancing chica, for all us girls for whom Buenos Aires was only un sueño! Wow Sally! I have been at home for a month now and only now i found the little pink personal card you gave with your blog address. i couldnt stop reading for hours of course and all the memories from Buenos Aires have raised from the bottoms of my soul… i’m sorry i never really got to know you… but now that you’ve got an appartment in BA (congratulations!) i know where to find you!
keep dancing chica, for all us girls for whom Buenos Aires was only un sueño!

]]> By: yamila http://sallycat.wordpress.com/about/#comment-235 yamila Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:48:09 +0000 #comment-235 hye! i found you reading ,in a expat blog , so you are there in bs as , thats good , im from patagonia , neuquen .- its nice to see that other people could make those changes in her life.well , drop me a line ,if you want ...so we could talk about something or about argentina....... have good nite there . hye! i found you reading ,in a expat blog , so you are there in bs as , thats good , im from patagonia , neuquen .- its nice to see that other people could make those changes in her life.well , drop me a line ,if you want …so we could talk about something or about argentina…….
have good nite there .

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