>Thanks for all these suggestions. Costume and dance both fascinate me and >it's amazing how they go together, and what's possible nevertheless. >slide feet between... for waltz. But how is that for the knees, in a tango?
Absolutely shocking, of course. Have one's limbs entangled! Richard Powers (lecturer in dance at Stanford Univ) claims there are 1850s tango figures, tho admittedly they look almost nothing like the 1920s tango or the 1940s Argentine tango, or the modern Buenos Aires tango or international ballroom tango. The earliest I can think of is the tune Habanera from which Bizet's Carmen. "Prend garde a toi!" Bizet apparently quoted musically from a Spanish folk tune. That performance shocked Parisian audiences in the 1870s. --cin Cynthia Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
