[Tango-L] Type A Tango

[Mario]

 I'm going to stick my neck out here..feel free to swing away.
 Here is Bora's latest practice session posted a few hours ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xAlGZVf854
 I didn't read the blog post yet titled 'Working Hard'...yep, that's what I 
thought it said...
 I guess dancing isn't supposed to be fun when one is in training for 'dancing 
with the stars'.
 Anyway, I respect the woman's professed love of the music and dance but I am 
agreeing with
 Jack over HBBoogie here.  I think that 'Salon' is simply the new catch word for 
covert 'performance' tango.
 I also believe that distinguishing between Performance and Social dance is what 
will save the social dance
 from extinction....ok these are my own pet prejudices... anyway, these practice 
dances leave me cold and I'd like to note 'why'....first off, I would not have 
guessed that one of the dancers is Argentine...the reason is that I can usually 
tell an Argentine dancer by his/her cadencia...jaja and what is 'cadencia'?  
Well, I define it as 'dancing' and dancing in a way that involves the whole 
body....often dancers born and bred in other countries have this same flat, 
deadly look to their dance...like only the feet are involved..Second, I still 
don't think that the woman is really dancing...it doesn't look like a 'dance' to 
me...it looks like obedient moves from one figure to another...and the 
musicality?..forgedaboudit....the musicality is sad and surely they should have 
been paying a lot of attention to the music even if it is a practice. ... this 
sort of concentration on the body and not the music is exactly what Pedro 
Sanchez was referring to in the quote below in my signature..   Hey, I always 
considered myself a natural dancer until I met Argentine tango.....  the Milonga 
song was no problem to dance to and my partners all had fun with my Vals..but it 
was the tango and being danced like it is in this video that cooked my 
goose...ugh!  .... I had to find out how to turn this dead-fish, pose oriented 
series of movements into a dance....  the answer...I'm still working on it and 
far from out of the forest...but the answer seems to be ;  simplify simplify 
simplify...get 4 or max 5 different things that you do besides the walks and get 
them down to where you own them....to where it's like playing a 5 key piano and 
then,- only listen to the music! .... thanks for listening to my rant.
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"The music makes you dance. It is so simple when one gets it. Connect with my 
partner and then connect with the music, let the music tell me how to move my 
body rather than me tell my body how to move to the music. With the right music 
and right partner, I am contented to have just one tanda a night" -Pedro Sanchez