[Tango-L] what's going on here?

[Sergio Vandekier]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNWC76wPGOo
 
 
IMO this is a nice small group of tango dancers, moving to the beat of alternative music.  
It is a rather monotonous music that renders the dance itself monotonous.
 
The main problem is that when you use alternative music the "feeling" changes, the tango choreographic moves are there but adapted to a music that (in this particular case)  is devoid of the variations of the "real" tango music. It is a music that lacks the dynamic changes of tango, the slow moments (adagios), the pauses, the fast moments (variaciones).
 
 The instruments coming to the forestage for a short time, to immediately go back to allow another one to show up and answer.  
 
Tango is like a river that flows and meanders in the plains, becomes strong and fast in the mountains; at times runs very slowly in a pool of clear water, at
certain moments becomes dramatic, running under the thunder of stormy weather to finaly precipitate itself into the open arms of the ocean.
 
 
Summary: the whole activity lacks the dynamic changes that are characteristic of Argentine Tango. 
 
A rumba choreography would adjust better to this type of music.
 
We, on the other hand should not be dogmatic, perhaps this same group of good dancers dance differently to classical tango music, the same as we do.
 
This might be a moment when they decided to use this type of music for a different type of enjoyment of the dance, a moment of hypnotic calm.
 
Most milogueros dance differently even to the different tango orchestras. 
 
Who knows? 
 
Best regards, Sergio
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