[Tango-L] Atlanta Tango Festival Video

[Keith]

 On Sun Apr 13 10:42 , Stephen.P.Brown at dal.frb.org sent:

>What is missing from many demonstrations of social tango is elegance of 
>movement.  Whether called close-embrace or milonguero-style tango, the 
>social-tango "movement" in the United States eschewed elegance of movement 
>to emphasize rhythm, improvisation and navigation skills.  Elegance of 
>movement may have been deemphaiszed as a element of show dancing or to 
>concentrate on other skills.

Thank you Stephen, I agree completely. 

A Tango teacher doesn't need to be particularly elegant to be a good teacher, 
although I think it helps and a social dancer doesn't need to be particulary elegant 
to give his/her partner a satisfying dance although, again, I think it helps. But to 
those who stand up in front of an audience to demonstrate this beautiful dance 
of ours - if there's no elegance then something is definitely missing. IMHO elegance 
is an integral part of good Tango, including purely social Tango. But I know many 
people on this list don't agree. Fair enough.

Keith, HK