It's a show. C'mon! Sean has a nice way of explaining it. If you watch ER on
TV, you know perfectly well that the actors are not real doctors or nurses or
patients. They convey or represent what real doctors or nurses or patients
do/think/feel. Show dancers do the same thing. They externalize the internal
things in tango that someone on the outside who only watches can't experience
themselves.
As someone who's had to demo for a significant portion of 60 minute shows, I've
found it hard to try to convey the emotional aspects of different pieces. Or
to differentiate the feeling of a vals from a tango to people who are hearing
the music for the first time. Sometimes you just have to exaggerate some
things. The show tango from DWTS was a lot better than some of the cabaret
stuff I've seen on other shows, where it's just a bunch of athletics.
But to each, his own.
Trini de Pittsburgh
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