[Tango-L] Why Argentine tango looks more like French ballet each year.

[Gordon Erlebacher]

When watching stage dancing, I do so for entertainment value only. One 
should not try to learn from stage dancing, regardless of style (unless 
one is planning to do stage dancing). Instead, if one must learn and 
draw conclusions from videos, do so when watching videos of dancers at 
milongas.

       Gordon

  Brick Robbins wrote:
> Sun, 3 Jul 2011 20:27:28 -0700 (PDT)  Mario<sopelote at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzgKZ0MWRnE&feature=related
>> I have come to accept that Argentine Tango will cease to exist and
>> what had been before will change and change until it is hardly recognizable..
> There is stage tango, and there is salon (or social) tango.  They are
> two completely different dances with the same name that share the same
> roots.
>
> They have different intentions. Stage tango is danced for the
> audience, salon (or social) tango is danced for your partner.
>
> Ballet is also a stage dance. It is not surprising that you see
> similarities between the two stage dances.
>
> Social tango didn't die in 1930, it didn't die in 1954, it is not
> going to die in 2011.
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Gordon Erlebacher
Department of Scientific Computing
gerlebacher at fsu.edu