David wrote: "Is this how we should all look? Hunched over with bent legs? I'm not intending any disrespect, because, as you all probably know, I am one of those "nearly anything goes dancers." But I do imagine that a number of regular posters to this list would find much to criticize about this style if it were to appear in their milonga today."
Touche! Admittedly, Petroleo is not the best example of elegance, but Virulazo is, or Chino, who is still dancing. My mistake, I was grouping them more by generation. Yes, Petroleo has more of his own personal, quirky style. In these photos (I have seen the video they are from.) he is dancing with someone shorter also. But even so he is quite adept at performing intricate steps while in close embrace. In a broader sense though, tango de salon includes close-embrace dancing in general, and not doing open-style figures, and my reference is to that also. My larger point was that the close embrace tradition has never really gone away and is still danced the same today as it was then, including the personal styles of its interpreters. Cheers, Charles ************** Life should be easier. So should your homepage. Try the NEW AOL.com. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity& ncid=emlcntaolcom00000002) _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
