[Tango-L] What Argentine Tango is, and what it is not.

Alexis Cousein al at sgi.com
Fri Mar 7 06:17:07 EST 2008


Floyd Baker wrote:
> I believe and have been told by people here that it is very much what
> Tango is.., and what it is not.   Tango, imho, is such an entirely
> separate entitity from ballroom that I do not even consider it a dance
> at all.
> 
I don't consider ballroom a dance, but a sport much like figure skating is ;).

AT is a dance, though. Unless you become so mired in discussions of orthodoxy
and heresy that you stop having fun and suffer from paralysis on the
dance floor, not daring to step another step for fear of commiting unspeakable
sin.

Then it becomes a sport again, just like chess.

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Alexis Cousein                                  al at sgi.com
Senior Systems Engineer/Solutions Architect     SGI/Silicon Graphics
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