[Tango-L] The Basic Elements of Tango

[Keith Elshaw]

>Just got this today in the email from a local (Argentinian by origin)
teacher:

>"A class to learn, review and polish the fundamental elements in Tango:
ochos, paradas, boleos, barridas, ganchos, amagues, giros, sacadas,
etc."

To me, this is all still teacher talk to make tango complicated so people
think they have to endure "level 1 though 89," etc.

Tango is basically a walking dance, no? There are so many ways to walk to
different kinds of music.

THAT is surely the fundamental element of tango. The rest of it is
basically stuff to ensure one can make money teaching people who haven't a
clue what it really is?

Sorry.

It seems to me no one in Argentina ever took a "class" to learn tango. You
danced on the weekend with your family and neighbourhood friends and you
picked it up. You developed your own way.

Returning to roots seems to me the best way of getting it.