Stage Tango depicts dancers performing for an audience. It can take place on a stage or not the point is it’s a performance. Social tango is a very personal intimate dance between two people without any regard for an audience. Regardless of what figures you dance if you are in any way showing off your skills on the social floor you are putting on a performance and you have now become one of the many tango dancers who show by you’re dancing you are clueless as to what social tango is all about.
In a message dated 10/8/2010 7:56:51 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: On 06/10/2010 21:22, Huck Kennedy wrote: > Well that *is* a problem with the style--as you point out, stage > tango is not appropriate for a crowded dance floor. > But I simply disagree that stage tango is a style, and that social tango is another, and that these are "the only two styles". These are *settings*, not styles, or at least they should be. If, within your "style", you don't adapt to the setting, you're obviously not going to get great results (and you are going to be rude if you dance 'stage tango' on a crowded dance floor). Stage tango by definition isn't appropriate to a crowded dance floor. I understand something very "different" when I mean style. The style of embrace, the frame, the way you solve the obvious biomechanical conundrums together with your partner, the walk, the exact way in which your dance rhythm interacts with strong and weak beats and even melodic phrases, the way it all breathes, where the pauses are, how the leader invites adornos or doesn't, the exact timing, the selection of patterns that are used to assemble the dance,... ...you can keep all of that pretty much the same in a social or stage setting yet these can differentiate you from all the other dancers. Unless your "style" is so rigid it cannot adapt to one of the settings, of course; it is e.g. necessary to eschew some dangerous moves or to adapt their form to a social setting (boleos don't *have* to mow down other dancers), and you will likely need to adapt some embraces to the place at hand (it's more than a bit rude to e.g. insist in dancing at arms' length). _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
