[Tango-L] tango to rap

[Sharon Pedersen]

Let me turn the question around a bit, then.  Is any movement to tango
music, tango dancing?  Or to count as a tango, does the movement have
to have some particular characteristics, as well as being done to
tango music?

If the latter, can those characteristic ways of moving be used to
non-tango music?  Let's, for the sake of argument, not call it tango
dancing since it's done to non-tango music.  Would you be willing to
call it "dancing influenced by tango dancing"?  Or is it just
completely not-tango, with no influence, no relation, no connection?

I'm not arguing for my point of view here -- I won't use your answers
against you to try to say "aha, you do agree with me!"; rather I'm
trying to explore the various facets of relation and/or borrowing of
music and movement.

Are there other dance forms that are equally inseparable from their music?

__Sharon

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:45 PM, JOHN WROBLEWSKI
<nrj.sparrow at prodigy.net> wrote:
> Sharon, That is the
> exact point. As soon as you turn on the sound..It is not tango. There is no seperatablitiy between the act of Tango and the music of tango.
> --- On Tue, 4/12/11, Sharon Pedersen <sharon.pedersen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Sharon Pedersen <sharon.pedersen at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Tango-L] tango to rap
>> To: "Tango-L" <tango-l at mit.edu>
>> Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 1:19 PM
>> 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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