Amazing and fantastic how different we are! In my experience, "affection and romanticism" can be wonderfully shared at the arm's-length distance, maybe even more so.
...dubravko =================================== seek, appreciate, and create beauty this life is not a rehearsal =================================== >________________________________ >From: RonTango <[email protected]> >To: Charles Roques <[email protected]>; Tango-L <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 2:02 PM >Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Music: Beat, Energy, Emotion & the Embrace > >----- Original Message ---- >> From: Charles Roques <[email protected]> >> >> ..... one of the principal reasons that contributes to many dancers >> resorting >>to non-tango music for dancing: it ts easier to hear the beat in other >>music >>or modern "electro-pop" tango. > >That's interesting, especially since those who prefer non-tango music for >mimicking tango steps usually don't dance to the rhythm of the music. I think >what they get from the non-tango music is energy - energy for the large and >rapid movements that to them define tango. > >In contrast, milonguero dancers conserve energy, keeping it inside of the >embrace, using some for movement and some for sharing emotion with their >partner >in the embrace. This is hard to do at arm's length - at least sharing positive >energy. The only kind of energy that can be shared at arm's length is negative >- >dragging or pushing you partner. It takes an embrace to share positive energy >- >affection and romanticism. > >Ron >_______________________________________________ >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
