[Tango-L] Tango's Cutural Heritage

[Alexis Cousein]

On 27/05/2010 18:49, rhink2 at netscape.net wrote:
> Clearly dancing tango and knowing about its heritage are two different
> and independent things.
>
It's not impossible to dance tango well with out knowing about its
heritage (some people seem to have an innate talent for the
"tango feeling").

But I bet it's a lot harder to *know* you dance tango well without
knowing its heritage. Without knowledge of the heritage, even
if you do *something* right, how do you know it's tango?

Of course, "heritage" is a lot of things. The very best teachers
*can* indeed introduce couples to the joy of (real) tango with a very
small subset of what is the total heritage (if they really do
concentrate on e.g. the fact that tango is an improvised -- and
thus led -- dance, the connection, musicality, and floorcraft).