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[steve pastor]

You could start here...
I haven't read the entire article for a while. Still...
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A31481
a review/inerview with the author of Tango: An Art History of Love (Pantheon, 2005)
 
 


--- On Thu, 9/11/08, Dubravko Kakarigi <dubravko_2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Dubravko Kakarigi <dubravko_2005 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] (no subject)
To: "tango-l" <tango-l at mit.edu>
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 11:13 AM

----- Original Message ----
From: David Thorn <thorn-inside at hotmail.com>
...
> Ernest:  Thank you for your posting.  I have very much enjoyed watching
you dance, both on youtube and in person.  You do actually dance!  It looks like
fun!

I second the above notion. I too enjoyed very much Ernest and Maricela's
dancing both on YouTube and in person. Plus they are both very nice and above
all humble persons. Kudos!

Now, I really got intrigued by what they and others call milonga candombera.
Ernest, what would you say is the main few characteristics of milonga
candombera? It does not quite follow the candombe as such, does it? given that
candombe is not a couple's dance and the rhythms are different, aren't
they?

I read Jean-Pierre's on-line article where he talks, among other things,
about 'the “floating” quarter of the beat ending the phrase,' but it
did not help me much. I am familiar with and am actually an aficionado of
milonga c/ traspie. But there is much more to it in Jean-Pierre's and
Ernest/Maricela's dancing. I sort of get the feeling of it, but hesitate to
let loose lest it become a caricature of a milonga c/ transpie. You might say -
so what. I just don't know. Please help.

...dubravko

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