[Tango-L] Music: Beat, Energy, Emotion & the Embrace

[Dubravko Kakarigi]

Amazing and fantastic how different we are! In my experience, "affection and romanticism" can be wonderfully shared at the arm's-length distance, maybe even more so.

...dubravko
 
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>From: RonTango <rontango at rocketmail.com>
>To: Charles Roques <c.roques at mchsi.com>; Tango-L <tango-l at MIT.EDU>
>Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 2:02 PM
>Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Music: Beat, Energy, Emotion & the Embrace
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>----- Original Message ----
>> From: Charles Roques <c.roques at mchsi.com>
>>
>> ..... one of the principal reasons that  contributes  to many dancers resorting 
>>to non-tango music for  dancing:  it ts easier to hear the beat in other music 
>>or modern  "electro-pop" tango.  
>
>That's interesting, especially since those who prefer non-tango music for 
>mimicking tango steps usually don't dance to the rhythm of the music. I think 
>what they get from the non-tango music is energy - energy for the large and 
>rapid movements that to them define tango. 
>
>In contrast, milonguero dancers conserve energy, keeping it inside of the 
>embrace, using some for movement and some for sharing emotion with their partner 
>in the embrace. This is hard to do at arm's length - at least sharing positive 
>energy. The only kind of energy that can be shared at arm's length is negative - 
>dragging or pushing you partner. It takes an embrace to share positive energy - 
>affection and romanticism.
>
>Ron
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