[Tango-L] Gustavo Naveira Interview, Part 3

[Brian Dunn]

Dear tango aficionados,

Part 3 of an extended interview with Gustavo Naveira is available on our
website at 

http://www.danceoftheheart.com/naveirainterview.htm

The interview is ongoing - if you have questions that occur to you upon
reading this interview, please contact us at
tangolessons at danceoftheheart.com to have your questions possibly included in
subsequent interview sessions.

Here is an excerpt from the latest installment:

"About the problem of difficulties with the discipline of practice, I think
on one side we can't think about tango as a sport. You know that, in sports,
if you don't practice a certain number of hours, you can't play
professionally at a certain level. But in tango, sometimes practice is not
useful. You can't direct the practice to achieve your objective...because it
seems to be leading you in another direction. 

I think, an opinion only, it's because the tango is still developing.
There's nothing proved. You don't know what can happen. And there is another
problem.in football, it's YOU who is running several hours a day to get your
level, but in tango, it's all about the RELATIONSHIP. You cannot compare
tango to other dances because it's a dance that sets a new world.it's NOT
individual, how he or she is doing things alone. It's not fully explored
yet, so that's why I think we are still in a development moment. That's why
I say it's not a rebirth of tango.
 
I think that before, the main thing was not the dance. In the old times, the
people were dancing in order to express deep feelings about the music. The
start of all this was the music, so they were trying to play everything
around THAT...a social situation, not a political situation. This was
interesting, because it was about the relationship between people. But it
was not concretely about the development of the dance through the
relationship. The new subject is the development of the dance BASED on the
relationship." 


Read the full text of the currently published interview sections at 

http://www.danceoftheheart.com/naveirainterview.htm


Abrazos,
Brian Dunn & Deb Sclar
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