-----Original Message----- From: David Thorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; tango-l <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 4:36 pm Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Will close embrace go the way of the dinosaur?
All of the decent nuevo dancers that I know are entirely capable of dancing close embrace, often do dance close embrace, and in fact may change embrace a number of times during a song to incorporate various degrees of light. >> If they are changing the embrace during a tango, they are not dancing 'close embrace'. They are dancing a 'flexible embrace'. The feeling is completely different. The close embrace is a close connection because it is kept throughout the dance. It is not something to be thrown away for a turn (or maybe a boleo). Although I am sure that they do exist, I personally know no, zero, nuevo dancers who think that they should not be proficient at all forms of dancing to tango music. >> Is there a bridge in Brooklyn you want to sell me? Most of the nuevo dancers I've seen are too busy thinking about their steps to listen the the music. Why else do they dance to music without rhythm? For example, 'Oblivion' is a beautiful tango for listening, but there's no rhythm to dance to. It is possible that your perception of a dichotomy between the open and close embrace dancers is a boggyman, spawned by a vocal minority who seem to believe that nuevo is a bastard child of the one true tango. >> "Bastard child of the one true tango?" Now why didn't this vocal minority have the cleverness to think of that one? Mel _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
