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

[Floyd Baker]

I think of Tango as more of a head game than a dance...  

And I used to call it on my early pages,  the Chess of all the dance
games...

Floyd









On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:17:07 +0100, you wrote:

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

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