[Tango-L] Bettina, creativity vs copying

[Nussbaum, Martin]

Bettina seems to regard copying as bad; Im not so sure. One must have
the tools before one can create.  jazz musicians transcribe solos of the
giants before they create their own, same with art students I see at the
met sketching a winslow homer.  
most great artists in every field are very aware of what has come
before, and what their contemporaries are doing. add inspiration to the
mix, your personality, and then you start to become the tango. but the
influences are there if you look hard enough in every artists work.
Every tango dancer saw some one else dance, and the copying is either
subconscious or conscious.    No one came out of the womb dancing tango.