[Tango-L] There is nothing nuevo under the sun.

[Jay Rabe]

If you see a couple dancing on YouTube, and let's suppose they are in close embrace, clearly well-connected with synchronous, smooth movements, dancing with elegant, upright posture, doing what we recognize as "tango steps", but you can't hear the music they're dancing to, and someone asked you what dance they were doing, would you not, regardless of the silence, answer that they were dancing tango? And you're going to try to convince me that if now you hear the music, and it happens to be modern music of some kind, that all of a sudden this makes it Not tango? Sounds absurd to me.

I love traditional tango music. There's no question in my mind that the typical rhythms and cadences of the music are responsible for the evolution of the familiar patterns and pauses that we use in dancing tango. But ultimately tango is about two people being together. While the music is important, "It's the connection ..." 

IMO

         J



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