[Tango-L] Tango Pedantics

[Tango Society of Central Illinois]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Vince Bagusauskas <vytis at hotmail.com> wrote:
> So Ron, when you aspire to do Argentine Tango you mean Tango de Salon as it
> applies now in BA or as it was 60 years ago?

Vince,

There are milongueros dancing today who danced 50-60 years ago. They
are representatives of that era. Some are learning from the
instruction of those milongueros who teach. Many more are learning by
observing milongueros in the milongas. Although many dancers in the
milongas of Buenos Aires lack the skills of milongueros, they dance in
a similar manner, in a close embrace, staying in the line of dance,
keeping their feet close to the floor, paying close attention to and
improvising on the music. These are characteristics of the dance that
have remained constant over time in Tango de Salon.

In Nuevo the embrace is elastic, feet are lifted off the floor, and
improvisation in movement does not restrict the dancer to staying
within a progressive line of dance. Oftentimes the structure of the
music is ignored. This is a fundamentally different dance.

Ron


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tango-l-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:tango-l-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of
> Tango Society of Central Illinois
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 November 2008 7:03 AM
> To: tango-l
> Subject: [Tango-L] Silly and pedantic Argentine Tango
>
> Likewise, there is Argentine tango that is danced in Argentina. It
> ***resembles_closely_an_ancestral_form*** danced 60 years ago in Buenos
> Aires. Argentines differentiate Tango de Salon, that which is danced
> is danced socially in the milongas of Buenos Aires, and Tango
> Fantasia, which is danced for exhibition, i.e., not as a social dance.
>
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