[Tango-L] Fw: Better? Worse? Just different

[jan bares]

Excellent point Michael. During my classical ballet classes, I found an information about the research documenting that physical expression needs to be taught separately from the musicality. Later on in my tango, a prominent teacher who had tango music playing in the class while teaching a particular figure went around telling the students: “Don’t listen to the music, the music will rush you and you won’t get it right”. 
Jan

--- On Sun, 4/24/11, Michael <tangomaniac at cavtel.net> wrote:

> From: Michael <tangomaniac at cavtel.net>
> Subject: [Tango-L] Fw:  Better? Worse? Just different
> To: "Tango L" <Tango-L at mit.edu>
> Date: Sunday, April 24, 2011, 8:22 PM
> I see things differently. Technique
> and musicality are two important ingredients to dancing
> tango. You can't learn both simultaneously. My private
> lessons dealt with technique followed months later with
> musicality. If you can't lead a figure without the music,
> you can't lead it with the music. I really don't understand
> why music is used in workshops when participants are trying
> to figure out how to execute the figure. Dancers learn at
> their own speed, and it's usually slower than the music.
> Playing music only leads to frustration. It's difficult to
> have a line of dance in a workshop when people stop in the
> line to figure out why something isn't working.
>   Michael
>   I danced Argentine Tango --with the Argentines
>   Moving to New York City
> 
>     HBBOOGIE1 at aol.com
> wrote:
> 
>     >
>     “The Music” first you need to  learn
> the music second is “The Heart” you need to feel the
> music in your
>     > heart  only then can you dance
> Tango
>     *********************************
> 
>     Tango is first and last a very special form
> of music. Argentina is a culture of warm feelings. So much
> more open and expressive than Anglo-American culture. To
> focus on the dance and the steps is to get it entirely
> wrong. 
> 
>     Beginners should be told to listen to the
> music and helped to understand the music and should be given
> to understand that their dancing can only develop as their
> understanding and appreciation of the music grows. I must
> confess I am pessimistic.
> 
>     Jonathan Thornton
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