On 05/10/2010 20:08, [email protected] wrote: > Now do you believe it? > As I said, no. You need to have religious faith in order to think that the site convincingly "demonstrates" a tango style was born with the sole purpose to destroy the ronda.
Incidentally, the site is *good*, but errs in thinking that there is only one solution to some biomechanical problems. It also uses pure judgement calls to determine which walks and solutions are "in the line" or "out of the line" - this looks good but it's creepy, and it doesn't feel like tango! This looks good, must feel good, but it isn't social tango! Nothing more than dogma as far as I'm concerned (even though the actual "one solution" theory is fairly self-consistent and the web site admirably expresses it). As far as I'm concerned, a style not unlike Pablo Pugliese's (not his rather playful staccato showpiece on Di Sarli, of course, but his "normal" dancing) is perfectly useable at milonga's, and so is his walk -- a walk, by the way, with some pieces that you can find Pepito Avellaneda using as well (he certainly didn't have The Walk as Revealed by the Scriptures of the Web Site). And given that it's all branded "out of the line" according to the author, it is a different style, regardless of the author's insistence that there are Only Two Styles and That the Rest is a Myth. I would indeed hesitate to emulate Gustavo in the more egregious examples on a crowded dance floor. But for a man that isn't convinced that dark matter necessarily exists and that some form of modified Newtonian dynamics might possibly in the end prove to be a better model than dark matter -- even though the standard model is of course standard because it tends to be fairly internally consistent -- I'll need more than this to "believe" it ;). _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
