Ok so let's face it: WHY have we all come to Tango - nuevos or whateversaloners or Milongueros? because there is some feeling, there is connection, there is some magic - sorry to say but excpt wen I watch Chico and his partner (sorry forgot her name my apoogies) I see NO MAGIC and NO connection i "nuevo" people watch the floor, look away, and they all mostly dance the saem hypnotic movements that are no longer original if not created or improvised but one copied from another.
The original Tango started by creative people improvising , talking creating - and they had noone to copy from - so they had to express what was inside. True dance comes from the inside out. It is not copied. It has neither an -ism nor is it following. It is original. The wonderful gift of the Tango should be honored by keeipng the essence alive, meaning, the feeling and expression of emotions and passion and whatever else there maybe - mystery? Something one cannot explain? To reduce it to how cool of a step and moves you can make while the inside is closed - or instead there is a "look at me how cool I can do it?! " it shows - as there is nothing that moves the observer. Just a bunch of moving legs. May as well hit the gym. Yes, surely I would never be compelled by that, as what made all of us initially enroll in a Beginner Tango Class or even close up shop and move to BsAs before we classified ourselves into categories, was the fascination by the connection, synchronicity between 2 humans and expressing feeling, longing, poetry - what cannot be told? Unfortunately in the time where we spend too much time in front of a computer screen - isolated with a machine - or in our heads thinking how it should be? - we lose perhaps sight of the very thing that made us get into it to start with? Tango is a lot more than steps and moves - why is noone really talking about that? Where are the seminars about that? _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
