[Tango-L] tango to rap

[Anton Stanley]

I'm sure I have a video somewhere that shows Fabian Salas demonstrating to a
class how simple tango can be. I found it beautiful as a tango. The thing is
that it's nothing but walking. Put that series of steps to rap and I don't
think I could accept it as tango. To the best of my knowledge, I don't think
there's any reference anywhere that codified any steps in tango. It's
difficult I would imagine, to apply scientific analysis to a subject that
exists only in the imagination of practitioners. That's the only tango
inheritance I believe we have. Like so many of this age, I believe we
devalue much of our past, selectively choosing only the bits we find to our
liking.

Anton


-----Original Message-----
From: tango-l-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:tango-l-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Trini y Sean (PATangoS)
Sent: Tuesday, 12 April 2011 2:42 PM
To: Tango-L
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] tango to rap


> 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. 


Are you referring an any individual step or a series of steps?  I would tend
to agree that an individual movement could be included as tango.  However, a
whole series of movement would bring it into question.

It seems to me that those who are against including dancing to non-tango
music in the world of tango do so out of personal preference.  That's fine,
but I've yet to hear an argument based on something that would withstand
scientific scrutiny.

Trini de Pittsburgh


      
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