--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Milonga steps are smaller, more contained and don't > include many steps normally done in regular tango, like going to the cross, for one.
I have heard that before, that going to the cross isn't supposed to be a milonga step, but I'm not buying it. Here are a couple of examples with milonga done in two different styles: Going to the cross at the beginning and middle of video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6IeJGYqKrc Going to the cross at the end of video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIX-gTg5Kzs I understand there not being ganchos or long pauses in milonga, but it never made any sense that going to the cross was supposed to be a no-no. You'd cross her at the half-beat instead of giving her a full beat to cross. If getting her to a cross from an ocho cortado is kosher, why wouldn't walking to (or through) the cross also be okay? Charles is right about many people treating milonga as a fast tango. The difference in learning milonga, I find, is how people are taught to hear the music in tango. Those who are taught to play with the half-beats in tango tend to pick up traspie much more easily than those who do not. Trini de Pittsburgh PATangoS - Pittsburgh Argentine Tango Society Our Mission: To make Argentine Tango Pittsburghs most popular social dance! http://patangos.home.comcast.net/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
