[Tango-L] Tango without music?

[Jack Dylan]

Yes, this is the way ballroom is taught because it's 100% figure-based.
Unless the couple each know their steps to the same standard figures,
they can't dance together.

And yet, by some miracle, having learned the steps, they have no problem
dancing those steps to the music. In fact, IMHO, ballroom dancers, on
average, dance to the music far better than most tango dancers.

No comment on why that is. 

Jack



> From: Tom Stermitz <stermitz at tango.org>
> 
> 
> I have heard this is common in ballroom, but I don't have direct  
> experience there.
>