Sharon American Rumba is danced to a rumba beat. If you were two blocks away and couldn’t hear the music but could see the dancers there is no doubt you would know they were doing a rumba. I dance very traditional tango. My feet are grounded to the floor I dance to the music paying attention to the woman I’m dancing with. I’m not dancing for the audience or trying to impress. I would say at any given milonga in SoCal you might find 3 or 4 people dancing this way the rest are dancing what they believe to be tango because it’s what they’ve been taught or seen on You tube. I have a lot of names for what I see going on out on the dance floor and traditional tango is not one of them. So to answer the question……… In their minds they are dancing tango in spite of the music. I went to the alternative music milonga last year at the Seattle Tango Festival with a very poor attitude because I’m such a tango snob. It wasn’t alternative tango music it was rock and roll and jazz and such. I ended up having a great time it really was lots of fun dancing tango to Elvis and Elton. However if you were two blocks away and you couldn’t hear the music but you could see the dancers you would have seen one old geezer dancing tango and you’d still be trying to figure out what the rest of the crowd was doing. Regards David
In a message dated 4/12/2011 1:46:33 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: 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 _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
