[Tango-L] What makes tango tango?

Carol Shepherd arborlaw at comcast.net
Thu Mar 6 14:11:28 EST 2008


Good question.

I have danced lindy hop on the opposite foot from partner for entire 
stretches of a dance, but that's improvisational, it's not part of the 
structure of the dance vocabulary.  And it's certainly not a ballroom dance.

thorn-inside at hotmail.com wrote:
> By cross-feet I meant crossed system as opposed to parallel.  I may be wrong
> entirely, but it is my impression that in ballroom, dancers only dance in
> what the AT world calls parallel feet.
> 
> But I don't really know
> 
> D. David Thorn
> 
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