[Tango-L] Dancers make music when they dance

[AJ Azure]

Igor that is poetry..nice but, still poetry. I am talking hard technique of
both only. You'll notice you only mention rhythm,. Notes are also pitch.
I am sure having been a martial artist most of my life that you can dance
with out music but, that is not dance anymore. I guess it could be termed
musical movement but, the definition of music is rhythm, melody, harmony and
much more. so while you can have musical elements no one will sit down and
listen to dance and that's ok we should come closer not move farther away.

-A


> From: Igor Polk <ipolk at virtuar.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:46:02 -0800
> To: <tango-l at mit.edu>
> Subject: [Tango-L] Dancers make music when they dance
> 
> Jee, I like that! Let me make a separate thread..
> 
> So the thesis is
> "Dancers can not play music, musicians can still move to music, even
> badly.".
> 
> Still, while playing music, musicians do not really know how to dance, even
> though they make various movements.
> 
> But we as dancers and specifically Tango Dancers, make music when we dance.
> You can call it like that. We do create right there, on the dance floor. And
> that is the improvisational specific of Tango everyone knows. We have our
> beat, rhythm pattern, notes, even melisma. We have polyrhythm. We have
> figures. We have legato and staccato. Our instruments are our bodies we make
> vibrations with, movements, accelerations, forces, balance, rebounds, many
> things. We can play strictly, and we can play outside. We can even bend a
> string!
> 
> Speaking about who is first, let it not surprise you, dear musicians, we can
> dance tango without any of your music at all! That is what advanced tango
> dancers can do. We play music with our own bodies. And I can assure you it
> is of very high quality.
> 
> Our unification in couples makes in the whole ensemble. We are listen to
> each other, to themselves, and to something which is born beyond our
> spinal-brain will.
> 
> Of course, we like to dance to music, and we should. But we creatively
> interpret it. We, together with musicians form cooperation.
> 
> Igor Polk
> PS.
> I have the idea which I expressed previously that musicians "dance" while
> playing. They dance with their fingers, arms, bodies, breath, even in the
> mind like we do. But it is the topic of a separate thread. Not being a
> musician I can not elaborate much about it.
> 
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