Shahrukh wrote among other things: > ALTERNATIVE TANGO [SIC] MUSIC: From the "one can dance anything to anything" school, an attempt to dance Tango to anything EXCEPT Tango music (techno or otherwise). Sorry, but this is an entirely gringo phenomenon. To the extent that it exists in Argentina at all, it's to cater to the Tango tourists who "learned" to expect this. I call them "excessively long cortinas," and they are most appropriate for doing what one does during cortinas (anything except dance Tango). <
Humm, I do not think so. Here is the introductory section of a tango dance book from 1916 by Nicanor Lima published in Buenos Aires, "Metodo Teorico Practico para bailar el Tango Argentino de Salon" translation: "In the first part of this method, which is the fundamental part of the dance ..............no only facilitates the complete and perfect learning of our authentic and popular tango, but also it serves as the base to learn different dances with out the need of an instructor. These are dances such as vals, polka, mazurka, schottisch, etc., marshalling all of the movements of the tango dance to the beat of the music of the dances described above. The same figures of tango at the same time update the dance described above including the One Step and Two Step. This is because they can be applied to any dance. This means speeding up or slowing down the execution of of the movements according to the beat of the music dancers would want to apply said figures." _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
