[Tango-L] singers and how do you listen

[lenl]

I couldn't agree more - with both of you. It took a while but it finally 
hit home about a year ago and suddenly I was getting compliments when I 
DJ'd and saw tango in a new light.
Len in Clearwater

TimmyTango at aol.com wrote:
>
>  So, I've written a little piece called, "On Behalf of The Singers."
>  
>  http://ToTANGO.net/ttindex.html >>
>
> Keith wrote a great piece on singers. Everyone should read it.
> Which brings me to my thoughts.
> It's funny how in tango nothing stays the same. Everything changes about my 
> like and dislikes. How tango evolves inside each one of us.
> One day we like one orchestra, and the next day a different group.
> The same goes for Singers. In my early years of learning I didn't like 
> Canaro, and didn't play any of his music. Now, he is on top of my list of favorites. 
> Maybe I just learned to dance to his music better.
> Maybe because I'm listening better.
>
> The singers, for me, make dancing tango easier to express feelings.
> I often tell my students that the tango had punctuation like a book.
> It has a title, Chapters, Paragraphs, sentences, commas, periods and question 
> marks.
>
> Listening to the singer makes these punctuation marks more clearer to react 
> to and express you feelings.
>
>
> Two years ago I spent 2 days with Dany Garcia along with Jon and Judy as my 
> interpreters, and I have Dany saying on tape, that the sound goes into his 
> ears, filters through his heart, and comes out his feet.
> In other word, is Dany saying, listen to the music and let your feet sing the 
> song.
>
> I key word I keep using is hear or listen.
>
> So many people really don't listen to the music or the orchestra as well as 
> they should.
> A month ago a lady on the L list told a couple they couldn't learn to tango 
> unless they knew the music. You need to listen to learn.
>  I go to milongas
>
>  and see people performing dance steps and not dancing to the music. So I 
> have to ask, are their teachers teaching this. 
> How do we listen to the music? Once we learn this then we can dance to the 
> music.
>
> Since I became a DJ on WOBC 91.5 FM I'm reading anything I can get my hands 
> on so I can express myself better on the air. If some of you only knew what 
> some of the lyrics to songs were, you dancing would improve. 
>
> I would like to see on this list, a conversation on 
>
> How do we dance like we have something to say?
> Instead of dance like we have something to show.
>
> Timmy
> in Cleveland
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