I see things differently. Technique and musicality are two important
ingredients to dancing tango. You can't learn both simultaneously. My private
lessons dealt with technique followed months later with musicality. If you
can't lead a figure without the music, you can't lead it with the music. I
really don't understand why music is used in workshops when participants are
trying to figure out how to execute the figure. Dancers learn at their own
speed, and it's usually slower than the music. Playing music only leads to
frustration. It's difficult to have a line of dance in a workshop when people
stop in the line to figure out why something isn't working.
Michael
I danced Argentine Tango --with the Argentines
Moving to New York City
[email protected] wrote:
>
“The Music” first you need to learn the music second is “The Heart” you
need to feel the music in your
> heart only then can you dance Tango
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Tango is first and last a very special form of music. Argentina is a
culture of warm feelings. So much more open and expressive than Anglo-American
culture. To focus on the dance and the steps is to get it entirely wrong.
Beginners should be told to listen to the music and helped to understand
the music and should be given to understand that their dancing can only develop
as their understanding and appreciation of the music grows. I must confess I am
pessimistic.
Jonathan Thornton
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