[Tango-L] Type A Tango

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Sopelote 
You seem to have some valid  opinions on one hand but on the other hand 
some of your comments make me wonder  if you really do know about tango. Just 
like Jack you obviously don’t know too  much about salon tango it is by no 
means Show or Performance tango. In my  opinion the girl in the video that was 
practicing with her partner is a pretty  good follower and with a little 
more practice in technique she will dance even  better.  
Repetition is the mother of skill so learning to become  skillful in tango 
takes lots of repetition. You can’t judge someone from a  practice session 
but when you watch him or her dancing at a milonga you can  certainly tell if 
they have put a lot of practice into what they are doing.  
I do agree with you that less is better walk walk walk do a little turning  
figure and walk walk walk some more less is better. Again in her defense 
she is  following what her teacher is leading she has no choice but to  follow.
Cheers
David 


In a message dated 12/24/2010 5:20:56  P.M. Pacific Standard Time, 
sopelote at yahoo.com writes:
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




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