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

[Jack Dylan]

Jay,

I guess my answer would be ... "well, it LOOKS like a Tango...." But I think I'd reserve
judgement until I heard the music. And isn't the same true of most other dances? Is a 
Waltz really a Waltz if the music is not Waltz? I don't think so. In Ballroom dancing
they have a catch-all name for any dance that doesn't fit any of the standard dances.
They just call it a 'rhythm dancing'.

Jack



> From: Jay Rabe <jayrabe at hotmail.com>
> 
> 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?