I couldn't agree more - with both of you. It took a while but it finally hit home about a year ago and suddenly I was getting compliments when I DJ'd and saw tango in a new light. Len in Clearwater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So, I've written a little piece called, "On Behalf of The Singers." > > http://ToTANGO.net/ttindex.html >> > > Keith wrote a great piece on singers. Everyone should read it. > Which brings me to my thoughts. > It's funny how in tango nothing stays the same. Everything changes about my > like and dislikes. How tango evolves inside each one of us. > One day we like one orchestra, and the next day a different group. > The same goes for Singers. In my early years of learning I didn't like > Canaro, and didn't play any of his music. Now, he is on top of my list of > favorites. > Maybe I just learned to dance to his music better. > Maybe because I'm listening better. > > The singers, for me, make dancing tango easier to express feelings. > I often tell my students that the tango had punctuation like a book. > It has a title, Chapters, Paragraphs, sentences, commas, periods and question > marks. > > Listening to the singer makes these punctuation marks more clearer to react > to and express you feelings. > > > Two years ago I spent 2 days with Dany Garcia along with Jon and Judy as my > interpreters, and I have Dany saying on tape, that the sound goes into his > ears, filters through his heart, and comes out his feet. > In other word, is Dany saying, listen to the music and let your feet sing the > song. > > I key word I keep using is hear or listen. > > So many people really don't listen to the music or the orchestra as well as > they should. > A month ago a lady on the L list told a couple they couldn't learn to tango > unless they knew the music. You need to listen to learn. > I go to milongas > > and see people performing dance steps and not dancing to the music. So I > have to ask, are their teachers teaching this. > How do we listen to the music? Once we learn this then we can dance to the > music. > > Since I became a DJ on WOBC 91.5 FM I'm reading anything I can get my hands > on so I can express myself better on the air. If some of you only knew what > some of the lyrics to songs were, you dancing would improve. > > I would like to see on this list, a conversation on > > How do we dance like we have something to say? > Instead of dance like we have something to show. > > Timmy > in Cleveland > <BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the > video on AOL Home.<BR> > (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15?ncid=aolhom00030000000001)</HTML> > _______________________________________________ > Tango-L mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l > > > _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
