Excellent point Michael. During my classical ballet classes, I found an information about the research documenting that physical expression needs to be taught separately from the musicality. Later on in my tango, a prominent teacher who had tango music playing in the class while teaching a particular figure went around telling the students: “Don’t listen to the music, the music will rush you and you won’t get it right”. Jan
--- On Sun, 4/24/11, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Michael <[email protected]> > Subject: [Tango-L] Fw: Better? Worse? Just different > To: "Tango L" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, April 24, 2011, 8:22 PM > 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 > ********************************* > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
