[Tango-L] Tango Music

[Sergio Vandekier]

> Meaning of life says (among other things): "i have been dancing tango about 5 years, 3 or 4 times a week, my wife is a dance instructor (not tango), so she has been dancing "forever". so, still figuring it out, but beyond beginners." Does not like classical tango music. 

 In my opinion you may have been "dancing tango" for about five years as you say, but it seems that you never understood tango music. 

 You may use the tango choreography to dance to any type of music but the feeling will be different.Unknown command -  

 Many people both in Argentina and abroad have experienced similar feelings with respect to tango music in general as you do.Unknown command -  

 What happens is that there are many tango orchestras, each one playing music with its own characteristics. 

 There are different historical periods which were accompanied by different types of tango music.Unknown command -  

 There is tango with strong beat and tango with very weak or event absent beat. 

 There are tangos for listening and tangos for dancing. There are Argentine Tangos and foreign tangos. 

 There are thousands of tangos that are not very good. There are a few hundred that are sublime. 

 Unless you spend time with somebody that knows the music and is able to teach you tango musicality it is obvious that you, by yourself will never discover the pleasure of listening and dancing to real tango music .  

This discovery may take several years, but then the pleasure is in the journey; eventually you will be able to dance differently to every tango orchestra with great feeling, improvising and making a good artistic interpretation of the music.

When this happened to me I felt like I had been walking by a beautiful tree covered with flowers that I had never noticed before, yet it had been there all the time in all his complete magnificence.

With best regards, Sergio
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