Let me turn the question around a bit, then. Is any movement to tango music, tango dancing? Or to count as a tango, does the movement have to have some particular characteristics, as well as being done to tango music?
If the latter, can those characteristic ways of moving be used to non-tango music? Let's, for the sake of argument, not call it tango dancing since it's done to non-tango music. Would you be willing to call it "dancing influenced by tango dancing"? Or is it just completely not-tango, with no influence, no relation, no connection? I'm not arguing for my point of view here -- I won't use your answers against you to try to say "aha, you do agree with me!"; rather I'm trying to explore the various facets of relation and/or borrowing of music and movement. Are there other dance forms that are equally inseparable from their music? __Sharon On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:45 PM, JOHN WROBLEWSKI <[email protected]> wrote: > Sharon, That is the > exact point. As soon as you turn on the sound..It is not tango. There is no > seperatablitiy between the act of Tango and the music of tango. > --- On Tue, 4/12/11, Sharon Pedersen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Sharon Pedersen <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] tango to rap >> To: "Tango-L" <[email protected]> >> Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 1:19 PM >> I disagree. I'm with Trini on >> the separability of names for the music and >> the movement. If you turned the sound off on the >> video and watched it, >> would it look like tango? Well, then, to me, it's >> tango. Of course, if it >> doesn't look like tango to you with the sound off, then >> don't call it >> tango. What does it look like to you, Anton, without >> the sound? >> >> __Sharon >> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Anton Stanley <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > I can accept the hypothesis that you can dance any >> type of step to tango >> > music and legitimately call it tango, but I can't >> accept that dancing the >> > same steps to any other music, can be called tango. I >> believe that only if >> > one accepts that there is no generic tango music, can >> dancing to non-tango >> > music be called tango. >> > >> > Anton >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
