On 11/06/2011 22:35, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > This is in reference to [email protected] who wrote: > .....but my understanding is that Ballroom and Argentine tango were the same > thing a century ago, and have developed in different directions. > > And to Alexis Cousein who says that "Ballroom Tango" as introduced in the UK > is > a very different (and very narrow) animal from "Tango danced in ballrooms in > BBAA". > > Here is bit more information: > >> From La Coreografia del Tango by Ines Cuello, Antologia del Tango. > >> En el área rioplatense, algunos manuales de danza incluyeron la coreografía > del tango con posterioridad a la aparición en Europa de las metodizaciones > realizadas por los especialistas en bailes de salón. Así lo advierte uno de > sus > auto¬res en nota a pie de página: "Las teorías de los bailes anteriores son > extraídas de las revistas que recibimos periódicamente de Europa y N. América > y > los bailes los enseñamos con extricto (sic) rigor a dichas teorías." 6<
That's marketing literature (which tries to convince a high class audienc that whatever is thaught is "de rigueur"). Which is very different from reality, as I'm sure we all know, especially in the context of a social dance. Look at film archives, and tell me whether what you see there is ballroom tango. _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
