[Tango-L] Tango is not a pose

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Hi Marisa,

Your post is quite good and accurate. I got a chuckle out of your 
description of the monomaniac tango dancer ;-). Personally I find the tango 
posers to be just as annoying or even more so that the "exited atomic 
particle" type of dancer who darts about the floor. At least the later will 
not obstruct the LOD continuously as the "immovable object" posers. IMHO 
anyone who cannot move along the LOD, especially while dancing valses and 
milongas is just blowing smoke about all the "pauses in the music". They 
just have not learned to dance very well yet. Don't believe all the BS you 
read or hear from other plodders. The tango has a LOD for a reason. The 
dance "progresses" along the line of dance. It's not a stationary period of 
heavy breathing....

Also, the idea that somehow completing a "lap" around the dance floor in 
each song is an index of good dancing is total crap. How can such a 
pointless feat be accomplished with all the variables involved? The length 
of the song, the number of posers, the length of the perimeter of the dance 
floor, and other factors will affect how far one can travel along the LOD.

There seems to be a number of people who think that the majority of tango 
dancers dance too fast.... Funny, perhaps the issue is with the minority who 
progresses too slowly? There is a big difference in dancing to the music and 
with the music or dancing off the beat and with disregard for the music. The 
tango is mostly very rhythmic. The milonga and vals are even more compelling 
to move. With few exceptions such as Pugliese or Piazzolla and other 
orchestras that play in that style, the tango music moves right along in the 
4x4 or 2x4 rhythm. Sure, one can pause a beat or 2, but I don't think that 
stationary posing while Darienzo or Rodriguez (and most other orchestras) 
are playing is not "dancing to the music" and definitely not good tango 
dancing.

Cheers

Manuel



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>From: Marisa Holmes <mariholmes at yahoo.com>

>It seems to me to be rather sort of a stunt which
>privileges calculation, elitism, and a vaguely
>antisocial desire to control others' expression over
>response to the music, the space, and the partner.
>Only someone monomaniacally determined to dance
>"correctly" will find that they take the same length
>steps and move at the same speed when the room is
>large and uncrowded and when it is small and full of
>other couples.  And only someone whose appreciation of
>music is entirely overcome by a frenzied need to be
>more-authentic-than-thou will dance the same way to
>vals, milonga, tango, d'Arienzo, de Angelis, Troilo,
>you name it.
>
>Marisa
>
>
>
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