[Tango-L] Arg. Tango and Ballroom tango

[Crrtango@aol.com]

Many of the descriptions of the differences between the two dances are 
correct (although some of the more spiritual reasons can be argued on both sides) 
but there is one very real technical and physical difference in the actual 
execution. Danel and other teachers over the years others have explained it this 
way and even ballroom dancers have acknowledged this distinction, and it is the 
major difference in the way the two dances look when performed or danced 
socially.   I have also studied some ballroom and my mother taught ballroom when I 
was young and we talked about this once.   In ballroom one is taught to 
develop lightness and lift when dancing or stepping and often there is slight rise 
and fall in the movements. 
Tango does the opposite in that it walks onto and into the floor and the 
actual body dynamic is one of downward pressure and maintaining a level, without 
the lift in the step. 

So although it sounds a little poetic and flowery, it is, kineticly speaking, 
true: Ballroom dancers dance up into the air, Argentine Tango dancers dance 
into the earth.

Cheers,
Charles


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