Here's my point..simple and clear.
Dancing slo tango is often not 'dancing'
Often, it is posing and doing mechanical movements.
Sometimes, these poses and mechanics can be done
relatively close to the same speed of the music..it can
appear to be dancing.
Because these mechanicions don't have a basis in 'dancing'
but rather in engineering, they are very difficult to master.
The ease and sense of the 'dance' (relationship of music to body movement)
just isn't involved. Slo tango becomes difficult and a lucrative business.
Now, the Milonga (song) is harder to engineer...it's more difficult to obscure
and make difficult. However, it is easy to dance..if someone can dance, that
is.
So, what is this phenomena of a Tango teacher who cannot dance the Milonga??
I'm saying that I have met various 'teachers' who either refuse to dance it
or dance it in a spastic way.
'Spastic' = non-joyous, stiff.
Dancing is releasing and flowing..trusting something more profound than
'thinking' ..
One can 'dance' the slo tango without really dancing. The Milonga is much
harder to fake..
..and doesn't lend itself well to being engineered.
Igor can dance....that's all...his steps may not be officially approved nor
have the good
tango teaching seal of approval but it is dancing..it flows and it's joyous.
..not mechanical
not stiff. that's all folks
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