[Tango-L] tango and rhythm

[larrynla@juno.com]

The basic rhythm of tango is a medium-paced walk, slow-slow as some
would call it. But the beauty of tango is that it's an improvised
dance. The leader can create any rhythm, any combination of quicks,
very quicks, slows, very slows, stops, and so on.

If he firms up his embrace his partner knows to adopt the same rhythm.
If he relaxes it she knows to keep to the basic rhythm. Her
predictability lets him do movements like sacadas.

With this freedom comes the possibility (maybe the likelihood) that
some of these invented rhythms will fail because they don't fit the
music, confuse his partner, cause him to forget the rest of the
dancers, and so on. Or because they are just ugly.

With this freedom also comes the responsibility to first master the
basics of movement, balance, embrace, musicality, and so on that your
inventions add to your dancing rather than show you up as as inept
fool.

Trying to make rules about which invented rhythm is right for what
movement is a game for fools, or for authoritarians who want to make
everyone else conform to their idea of what is right.

Larry de Los Angeles
http://ShapechangerTales.com


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