On 27/05/2010 18:49, [email protected] wrote: > Clearly dancing tango and knowing about its heritage are two different > and independent things. > It's not impossible to dance tango well with out knowing about its heritage (some people seem to have an innate talent for the "tango feeling").
But I bet it's a lot harder to *know* you dance tango well without knowing its heritage. Without knowledge of the heritage, even if you do *something* right, how do you know it's tango? Of course, "heritage" is a lot of things. The very best teachers *can* indeed introduce couples to the joy of (real) tango with a very small subset of what is the total heritage (if they really do concentrate on e.g. the fact that tango is an improvised -- and thus led -- dance, the connection, musicality, and floorcraft). _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
