Let me be clear. I never criticized their dancing or said that they were bad
dancers. I just stated that I think they wandered into modern dance or ballet.
When I was a beginner (back when videos of tango were hard to find), I bought
a video tape of a ballet company doing tango. To my eye, it was clearly
ballet, not tango. If a clip of this was shown to those untrained in tango,
would they think that parts of the dance was modern dance or ballet and not
tango?
Being something of a skeptic, I'm not going to automatically assume that what
someone says is "the truth" just because he/she is an authority. If Sebastian
said that what he was doing was the square dance, I'm not going to blindly
agree that it is the square dance.
There are moments at around 5:02, 6:16, 6:58, and the ending when the character
of the dance seems to change and it appears more like modern dance than tango.
I'm not trained in modern dance, so I'm trying to figure out the elements that
would make someone think "oh, this is modern dance or ballet" instead of "oh,
this is tango".
Some of the responses from people seem to be too rooted in their own ideas of
what they want tango to be. In what people have been trained to think. But if
you're able to step out of that mindset and look at the video objectively, what
would you see?
Trini de Pittsburgh
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