Dear tango aficionados, Part 3 of an extended interview with Gustavo Naveira is available on our website at
http://www.danceoftheheart.com/naveirainterview.htm The interview is ongoing - if you have questions that occur to you upon reading this interview, please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to have your questions possibly included in subsequent interview sessions. Here is an excerpt from the latest installment: "About the problem of difficulties with the discipline of practice, I think on one side we can't think about tango as a sport. You know that, in sports, if you don't practice a certain number of hours, you can't play professionally at a certain level. But in tango, sometimes practice is not useful. You can't direct the practice to achieve your objective...because it seems to be leading you in another direction. I think, an opinion only, it's because the tango is still developing. There's nothing proved. You don't know what can happen. And there is another problem.in football, it's YOU who is running several hours a day to get your level, but in tango, it's all about the RELATIONSHIP. You cannot compare tango to other dances because it's a dance that sets a new world.it's NOT individual, how he or she is doing things alone. It's not fully explored yet, so that's why I think we are still in a development moment. That's why I say it's not a rebirth of tango. I think that before, the main thing was not the dance. In the old times, the people were dancing in order to express deep feelings about the music. The start of all this was the music, so they were trying to play everything around THAT...a social situation, not a political situation. This was interesting, because it was about the relationship between people. But it was not concretely about the development of the dance through the relationship. The new subject is the development of the dance BASED on the relationship." Read the full text of the currently published interview sections at http://www.danceoftheheart.com/naveirainterview.htm Abrazos, Brian Dunn & Deb Sclar Dance of the Heart 775 Pleasant Street Boulder, CO 80302 USA 303-938-0716 www.danceoftheheart.com "Building a Better World, One Tango at a Time" _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
