3961  Another Finnish tango video

Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 02:28:55 -0800
From: Piia Savolainen <tangovanilla@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Another Finnish tango video

Hmm... how could I explain... :)

There _are_ different styles in Finnish tango, too.
The more traditional one doesn't have these bouncy
steps, but it stays more on the same level. Also, it
has a bit more sharpness than this newer style. (But
it is not that aggressive as international ballroom
tango).

This videoclip that you have seen shows the newer
style, which has more bouncing and overall smoothness.
And to me this newer style feels very much the same as
the slow foxtrot (not ballroom tango at all).

The songs usually have different parts in them. They
start with a march like rhytm, and in the middle there
is a softer, smoother interlude. Now, I think (if one
wants to really interpret the music), the first part
should be danced with the non-bouncy style, and softer
part with this bouncy style. However, some people do
this soft style to everykind of music, and to me that
is not a good interpretation.

I tried hard to find some other clip that would have
this older style in it. I only found one clip that's
quite ok (but even in this clip the dancers have a bit
of that bounciness). Unfortunately this doesn't show
much about the dancers' feet, but at least (hopefully
:)) you can see that the feeling is a bit different.

The link:
https://hallinto.somero.fi/monokas/kisat/tango10112001/puranen.html
-> Click: "2. Tango Satumaa -Someron "kunnallislaulu"
otos"

Piia

P.S. As to Manuel saying that the dancers didn't seem
to be in the rhytm, that might be correct. Or then it
just seems so because of the technical difficulties in
the recording. At least I've noticed in my own digital
recordings that the sound and vision are not always
properly coordinated.

--- WHITE 95 R <white95r@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I looked at it with care and it looks a lot like
> American Ballroom tango.
> Even without the dips and head turns, the big,
> bouncy steps that land almost
> on the toes are practically identical to the
> ballroom tango steps I've seen.
> I did find it interesting that they danced quite
> smoothly and elegantly and
> they did not collide in spite of dancing those big
> steps and long
> combinations while sharing the floor with other
> dancers. They are obviously
> skilled at what they do. There is another thing that
> I noticed, the music is
> also more like the ballroom tango music than the
> Argentine tango and it
> seemed to be more of a background theme than some
> driving beat. I might be
> wrong because I don't know how to dance that style
> and I've never done it,
> but it seemed to me that the dancers were not
> dancing quite to the muisc....
>
> Manuel
>
> >From: Piia Savolainen <tangovanilla@YAHOO.COM>
> >>There's one website which has videos from one
> >particular tango competition of the cup. The link
> is
> >here:
> >
>
>https://koulut.somero.fi/monokas/Kisat/Tango13112004/videot/videot.htm
> >
>
>
>