Sopelote You seem to have some valid opinions on one hand but on the other hand some of your comments make me wonder if you really do know about tango. Just like Jack you obviously don’t know too much about salon tango it is by no means Show or Performance tango. In my opinion the girl in the video that was practicing with her partner is a pretty good follower and with a little more practice in technique she will dance even better. Repetition is the mother of skill so learning to become skillful in tango takes lots of repetition. You can’t judge someone from a practice session but when you watch him or her dancing at a milonga you can certainly tell if they have put a lot of practice into what they are doing. I do agree with you that less is better walk walk walk do a little turning figure and walk walk walk some more less is better. Again in her defense she is following what her teacher is leading she has no choice but to follow. Cheers David
In a message dated 12/24/2010 5:20:56 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I'm going to stick my neck out here..feel free to swing away. Here is Bora's latest practice session posted a few hours ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xAlGZVf854 I didn't read the blog post yet titled 'Working Hard'...yep, that's what I thought it said... I guess dancing isn't supposed to be fun when one is in training for 'dancing with the stars'. Anyway, I respect the woman's professed love of the music and dance but I am agreeing with Jack over HBBoogie here. I think that 'Salon' is simply the new catch word for covert 'performance' tango. I also believe that distinguishing between Performance and Social dance is what will save the social dance from extinction....ok these are my own pet prejudices... anyway, these practice dances leave me cold and I'd like to note 'why'....first off, I would not have guessed that one of the dancers is Argentine...the reason is that I can usually tell an Argentine dancer by his/her cadencia...jaja and what is 'cadencia'? Well, I define it as 'dancing' and dancing in a way that involves the whole body....often dancers born and bred in other countries have this same flat, deadly look to their dance...like only the feet are involved..Second, I still don't think that the woman is really dancing...it doesn't look like a 'dance' to me...it looks like obedient moves from one figure to another...and the musicality?..forgedaboudit....the musicality is sad and surely they should have been paying a lot of attention to the music even if it is a practice. ... this sort of concentration on the body and not the music is exactly what Pedro Sanchez was referring to in the quote below in my signature.. Hey, I always considered myself a natural dancer until I met Argentine tango..... the Milonga song was no problem to dance to and my partners all had fun with my Vals..but it was the tango and being danced like it is in this video that cooked my goose...ugh! .... I had to find out how to turn this dead-fish, pose oriented series of movements into a dance.... the answer...I'm still working on it and far from out of the forest...but the answer seems to be ; simplify simplify simplify...get 4 or max 5 different things that you do besides the walks and get them down to where you own them....to where it's like playing a 5 key piano and then,- only listen to the music! .... thanks for listening to my rant. .. ... http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=734224171 www.youtube.com/user/nacotete www.tangoandchaos.org www.theopendoorway.org/audiovisual.html "The music makes you dance. It is so simple when one gets it. Connect with my partner and then connect with the music, let the music tell me how to move my body rather than me tell my body how to move to the music. With the right music and right partner, I am contented to have just one tanda a night" -Pedro Sanchez _______________________________________________ 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
