[Tango-L] tango.. must change..

[Igor Polk]

"Tango is a social dance, built on
social relationships, and it will change, it must change as those social
arrangements change around it in a changing society."

- I have heard these words many times in many variations.

It make a lot of sense if a person exclaiming it knows well the dance of the
"previous" unchanged society. If he/she does not know the actual dance, this
argument is just a cheap cover for not being able to know and understand the
classical tango dance.

I can see the reason. It happened to me too many times. It is just so much
easier to invent something new than to learn something established and well
developed. Why? Because you start from the scratch, virginally white paper,
without scratches and remarks. There are no intricacies yet, there is no
competition, and with some marketing skill you become a "guru" and a
"visionary", respected leader much quicker - there is no one around yet!

Dance is the dance as well as science is science. Pythagorean theorem is
true even if it was discovered 2000 years ago. You do not want to use it
because "society  changed"? Well, that is your problem.

Igor Polk.