YAMP (yet another milonga post) Just as there are several flavors of tango there are several flavors of milonga (my experience is US).
I originally learned milonga as a quickly moving and sassy dance that travels over the floor. In close embrace the traspie and other rhythmic 'stops' and small shuffles are interesting, but feel deliberately constrained for such a sweeping musical phrase. I don't know any other type of modern-day social dance similar to this more open and traveling type of milonga, which is one of the reasons I really love it. (Quickstep and viennese come to mind but are smooth style). American samba travels similarly to a bouncy beat, but of course is extremely different in moves, mood, music, etc and not as compelling. The moods of tango and milonga music are of course very different. I like the tango for the tango and I like the milonga for the milonga. But the type of milonga I originally learned is probably my favorite of all dance styles, bar none -- so I also wish there were more milonga at a milonga. I get tired of tango-tango-tango-tango. I can dance salsa or lindy hop for hours so to me there seems to be comparatively very little exertion at a typical milonga; I frequently get cold between dances and have to dress much more warmly. meaning of life wrote: > my 1 cent contribution to the tango vs. milonga question. > > both my wife and i are atheletic. my wife is also a profesional dance > instructor (not tango). tango allows us to express ourselves with big, strong > moves, and to combine our other dance and movement forms (martial arts) with > tango. we can move from open to closed embraces, and express ourselves using > the various tango "basics", and some moves "borrowed" from other dances > including milonga. for us tango is "more fun" because we can see each other > and "play", of course, we can "feel" each other in both tango and milonga, > but only tango lets us see each other move. and i gotta say, i love to see a > beautiful dancer move. > -- Carol Ruth Shepherd Arborlaw PLC Ann Arbor MI USA 734 668 4646 v 734 786 1241 f Arborlaw - a legal blog for entrepreneurs and small business http://arborlaw.com _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
