Hi List, Heather, Nina: So...the real tango music popped out of an egg in some perfect final form...and was accompanied by the birth of the real tango dance in some perfect final form; no evolution, no invention, no experimentation, no new possibilities created or discovered or tested or somehow alloyed into it along the way?
--Ira At 6:57 PM -0700 2/28/08, Nina Pesochinsky wrote: >Heather, > >I agree. Well-said! > >This is an excellent, clear explanation. Thank you! > >Nina > > > >At 04:49 PM 2/28/2008, Heather Whitehead wrote: > >>The source of Nuevo's inferiority is that it is a movement based >>Movement. It is motivated by the biomechanic possibilities. This can >>be an intellectual pursuit of physical dexterity that in the end takes >>precedence over the music. The aesthetics produced from movements >>inspired first from the music, TANGO music, have the lasting power and >>beauty of something truer. You will notice many Nuevo dancers find no > >contradiction at all in dancing tango to non-tango music. This is why. _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
