[Tango-L] Moe Tango

[Mario]

 I hate to advocate dancing to other than... music but I have to believe that 
Michael has made a good point here. The video shows some darn good cadencia with 
the whole body involved with the dance...this is VERY rare to see among North 
American dancers on you tube. And the 'pause' is also a darn good indicater that 
good musicality is at work.
I had a similar experience once that gave my own dance a BIG jump ahead at the 
two years mark. I attended a milonga that also played pop music to dance to.  I 
refused to dance to such pap but was asked repeatedly to dance ...and so, 
reluctantly I did but I made this promise to myself; I will make the embrace and 
I will not move unlessl the music compels me to.  Well, I did start moving and I 
did do a lot of pausing...here's what happened next; my tango got MUCH better 
...all of a sudden Ii could feel the pauses in the traditional music and my 
whole body became much of the dance... it was a tango break thru for me.  Now, 
the 'whys' and 'hows' are hard to figure out but again I think that Michael is 
right in saying that we were raised with the blues and not with 'por una 
cabeza'...we feel one and it's not so easy to feel the other... not long after 
my experience, an advanced dancer said to me; "Mario, I notice that you are 
dancing more to the music it looks good"... I replied that "I learned how to 
pause."  ..He added, "Yes, once you can pause in Tango, you can do anything!"... 
I think he's right.





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