[Tango-L] Who invented the basic step?
NANCY
ningle_2000 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 25 14:19:28 EDT 2008
All I know about that is the Dinzels came through the
US in about 1994, hitting ballroom studios all over,
teaching their 'System' which used the eight count
basic and a theory of axis. It included the DBS and
lots of ganchos, barridas, sacadas, sandwiches, etc -
all the usual stuff we see being done by first year
dancers. It was open embrace. Not surprising since
the Dinzels were in the original "Tango Argentino"
production that traveled the world in 1983-6.
Were they first? Don't know about that. I do know
that, having been trained in their system, I went to
BsAs six months later and started all over again
thanks to Daniel Trenner.
Nancy
--- Keith <keith at tangohk.com> wrote:
> I doubt very much that any one person could take
> credit for inventing the basic step.
> IMO it's far more likely that a 7-step figure
> existed and somebody added the 8th step -
> probably the man's back step. And, before that, a
> 6-step figure existed and somebody
> added the 7th step - probably step 2 or 8. And so on
> with one step being added at a
> time. It could even be that 8 people invented the
> basic step :-). A more interesting
> question would be ... who invented the Cruzada.
>
> Keith, HK
>
>
>
> On Fri Mar 21 5:17 , Njål Bendixen sent:
>
> >Whatever anyone thinks someone must have invented
> it, and that must have
> happened at a specific point in time.
>
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