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

[Ed Doyle]

Right On Igor - I agree 100%
Ed


On 9/26/06, Igor Polk <ipolk at virtuar.com> wrote:
>
> "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.
>
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