[Tango-L] "Nuevo" Dancing to Di Sarli: "Don Juan" - Gustavo & Giselle

[bettina maria fahlbusch]

..  "I would like to add for consideration, that "ratified by Buenos
Aires Tango"
doesn't mean very much"  . . .

 I wholeheartedly agree - first of all - there is noone here in BsAS
that "ratifies", second, Tango is - like all in Life - subject to
constant evoluton, third, Tango IS not just Argentine, but danced all
over the world -  like it or not - agree or not -it is reality -

amazing how many concepts, interpretations and analyzing is out there -

 poetry no longer is poetry if analyzed. A Rose is no longer what it
is, if all analyzed why it smells and how and if - nor is a kiss, nor
is mystery, nor is a scent . . . it is NOT science, it is an art, an
experience, poetry . . .  how many subjective ideas and explanations
are floating around. . .  why? What does it do? Does it make you a
"better" dancer? Rodolfo Dinzel once made an interesting remark: ' . .
. there are those who want to "have" the Tango, and there are those
who "are" the Tango . . ." now what does he mean by that?  also "
there are those who are creative and simply dance . . and then there
are those who copy the ones that are creative . .  " hmmmm  . . . food
for thought?






On 8/13/09, Anton Stanley <anton at alidas.com.au> wrote:
> Brian wrote: " and many of us have seen them bring this mastery to the
> social floor of the milonga with consummate taste, complete awareness of the
> ronda, and inspiring improvisational skill."
>
> Brian, could you name a few social milongas where you have seen Gustavo &
> Giselle dance like in the video. If indeed they danced like that at a
> typical, say Buenos Aires milonga, I would call them a menace and it would
> completely destroy my dance experience on the floor with them. On the other
> hand, if I were part of the audience in the video, I would be enraptured to
> watch them all day long.
>
> Whilst agreeing wholeheartedly with your comment:
> "Like Paris in the 1900's, cool things may happen elsewhere on the cultural
> frontiers.  But until current tango developments are "ratified by Buenos
> Aires Tango", whatever that may mean to a given individual, it makes sense
> for that individual to assume that they're not really "the thing" yet.  And
> this mechanism alone will serve to effectively define for all of us, through
> the coming decades of further development, what at any given moment is
> really "Argentine Tango".
> I would like to add for consideration, that "ratified by Buenos Aires Tango"
> doesn't mean very much, and maybe the thought should be more on the lines of
> "what's mostly danced". Just because something might be in the R&D stage of
> development, doesn't make it a successful product.
>
> Anton
>
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