It is often difficult and misleading to attempt to imagine how someone dances tango based on their posts to Tango-L. Even when two people agree in writing on style and philosophy, they may dance very differently. As I have posted before, we often see visitors here in NYC from other tango communities and it is informative and revealing to see how they dance, compared to their comments. Often the styles they like and write about reflect their own dancing, but not always. So I thought of an idea to put a face (or feet) on the responses. Youtube is an excellent source for finding examples of tanguero/as and milonguero/as we admire. It would be interesting to go one step further and pick a video that represents how each of us dances, or how each of us would like to dance. Try to find the one person, male or female, that best exemplifies either your own style or the style you aspire to. Perhaps with a brief comment as to why. Some might be obvious, some might be surprises. I have many favorites but only one or two that I would actually use as models.
To start this off, my own style and approach would be closest to El Chino Perico because of his elegance and understatement. I have done performances over the years with more elaborate choreography, but in the end (and especially in a social situation) my dancing probably is closest to what is shown in his videos. There are a number of examples of him on Youtube. How about yours? Cheers, Charles ************************************** See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
