If you see a couple dancing on YouTube, and let's suppose they are in close
embrace, clearly well-connected with synchronous, smooth movements, dancing
with elegant, upright posture, doing what we recognize as "tango steps", but
you can't hear the music they're dancing to, and someone asked you what dance
they were doing, would you not, regardless of the silence, answer that they
were dancing tango? And you're going to try to convince me that if now you hear
the music, and it happens to be modern music of some kind, that all of a sudden
this makes it Not tango? Sounds absurd to me.
I love traditional tango music. There's no question in my mind that the typical
rhythms and cadences of the music are responsible for the evolution of the
familiar patterns and pauses that we use in dancing tango. But ultimately tango
is about two people being together. While the music is important, "It's the
connection ..."
IMO
J
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