[Tango-L] tango to rap

[Anton Stanley]

At the risk covering ancient ground, what is it about a dance that makes it
look like tango? 

Anton


-----Original Message-----
From: tango-l-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:tango-l-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Sharon Pedersen
Sent: Tuesday, 12 April 2011 2:19 PM
To: Tango-L
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] tango to rap

I disagree.  I'm with Trini on the separability of names for the music and
the movement.  If you turned the sound off on the video and watched it,
would it look like tango?  Well, then, to me, it's tango.  Of course, if it
doesn't look like tango to you with the sound off, then don't call it
tango.  What does it look like to you, Anton, without the sound?

__Sharon

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Anton Stanley <anton at alidas.com.au> wrote:

> I can accept the hypothesis that you can dance any type of step to tango
> music and legitimately call it tango, but I can't accept that dancing the
> same steps to any other music, can be called tango. I believe that only if
> one accepts that there is no generic tango music, can dancing to non-tango
> music be called tango.
>
> Anton
>
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