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

[Vince Bagusauskas]

A group of people who are enjoying their dance and some enthusiast who wants
to share it with her friends without asking for comment.

As for the music, it is a slow sensual piece, maybe the one tanda of the
evening, maybe the one slow one of a night of neuvo.  


Good dancers who are into this style of music can adapt their Argentine
tango dance to it, just as they can adapt their style to the many kinds of
traditional tango music and schools of dance.


-----Original Message-----
From: tango-l-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:tango-l-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Sergio Vandekier
Sent: Saturday, 8 November 2008 11:23 AM
To: Tango-L List
Subject: [Tango-L] what's going on here?


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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