[Tango-L] Not dancing with the music

[Mary Menz]

The rhythm of tango is not punctuated with a drum beat, one needs to be more sensitive to the pulse of the music, so tango is more challenging than ballroom rhythms, but even then, I have seen ballroom dancers execute choreographies that bear no relation to the beat, even when it’s hitting them over the head.

> On May 19, 2015, at 2:29 PM, Ming Mar <ming_mar at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> The majority of tango dancers I see on the dance floor in 
> Montreal are not dancing with the music.  Is it the same in 
> other cities?
> 
> Every now and then I see a musicality course offered.  Do 
> ballroom tango dancers need musicality courses?  Do any 
> other kind of dancer need musicality courses?
> 
> If this is a problem in other cities, what is it about 
> tango that results in this situation?
> 
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Mary Menz