[Tango-L] Musicality. What is it?

[sherpal1@aol.com]

You can really learn what musicality isn't when you listen to the types of 
songs DJ's outside of Argentina
juxtapose during a tanda.  Part of musicality is the finely tuned blending of 
one song practically melting seamlessly into the next so that the leads can 
move with the same rhythm and maintain a certain flow of dancing that is 
characterized by all the songs in the tanda.  The horror of going from a nuevo tune 
to a show tango song to a song from the 40's is jarring and impedes and defies 
the concept of musicality.  If as a dancer you find that you can easily shift 
gears to adopt to these poorly arranged tandas, you probably are not 
experiencing musicality and are just dancing over the music, oblivious to beats, 
rhythms, counter rhythms and melodies.  Oouch. 
 
Sherrie Pallotta
Shaker Heights



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