On 14/06/2011 02:17, Tango22 wrote: > Is it fair to say this is how exported Tango developed in the > past into ballroom etc., and may be doing so again?
Only if someone starts to write a syllabus of steps, manages to become authoritative and manages to divorce the dancers from BBAA practice indefinitely (I think too many people go to BBAA these days, and these people *do* come back). Ballroom also has a peculiar obsession with uniformity (I mean, how on earth are you supposed to dance in another country if they don't have the exact same syllabus of steps and music) which goes against the tango grain. No, I don't think it's doing so again. I think the danger of that was actually greater when I started dancing tango in the very late 1980s and early 1990s, because the links with BBAA were tenuous, invited teachers were often pure show dancers, and because the unique obsessions of tango (about leading, improvisation and musicality) were not familiar at all. _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
