[Tango-L] Musicality and dancing tango to non-tango music

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from my personal experience, i know that this specific ballerina dances to tango music every night, so it must be interesting to her. you haven't lived until you see the cell block tango en pointe'. 

and i have seen some heartstopping "tango dances" to the song "blue on black", "black velvet" and "turn the page". of course the more traditional tango snobs in the room were slitting their wrists, tossing salt and burning candles and incense to "make the bad dancers go away"

i think that it is the dancer that chooses the music that lets them express their "interpretaion and expression" of the art of tango, not the other way around. now if it is traditional music that makes it for you, then good deal, if it something else that works, good deal also. certainly, the traditional tango music has a high probability of success, since they were "designed together" (tango dance and tango music), but i don't think that other music makes "success" impossible. again, i think it is the interpretation and feeling that make it "your dance", and the movements, etc. that make it tango.


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> From: ipolk at virtuar.com
> To: tango-l at mit.edu
> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 16:42:42 -0800
> Subject: [Tango-L] Musicality and dancing tango to non-tango music
>
> Talking about musicality and dancing tango to non-tango music.
>
> Dancers agree, and it was said here that musicality is an art of "matching
> dancing to music".
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> Of course, a ballerina can dance to pop-music. No problem.
> But would it be INTERESTING to her?
> Would it be MUSICAL ? In terms of matching her advanced dancing skill to the
> less than advanced rhythms?
>
> If it works one way, it should work another way.
> For a great dance the music must match the abilities of dancers.
>
> Nothing else can match the abilities of the advanced tango dancers like
> advanced tango music.
>
> So, it works in both ways.
>
> Igor Polk
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