Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:13:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Jack Dylan <[email protected]>
>>I think I'll stick with 'traditional'. What is Tango without >>tradition??Probably something that's no longer Tango.?<< What exactly does "traditional tango" mean to you? Here where I live, there are people who dance in a flat Susana Miller style embrace who consider their dance the "one true" traditional tango. There are others who dance in a "V" embrace who also consider their dance the "one true" traditional tango. Both groups tend to do wrapping movements. In the couple of months I spent in Baires, I was told by some older dancers, that there were no wraps in "traditional" tango, and that such movements were vulgar because of the proximity of the two dancers naughty bits (entrepiernas in castellano) required by wrapping movement. So by these Portenos rules, neither of the embrace based "traditional" camps would be dancing "traditional" FWIW, worrying about tango ending is not new. In 1930 in the song "Adios Arrabol" Lienzi wrote "The milonga of the portenos that will never again return" (De la milonga porteña, Que nunca más volverá ) _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
