5533  On dancng to non-tango music

Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:25:48 -0600
From: "Lois Donnay" <donnay@donnay.net>
Subject: [Tango-L] On dancng to non-tango music
To: <tango-l@mit.edu>

I have a student who is a pianist, and his specialty is Ragtime. He has been
researching the connections between tango and ragtime, and has found a bit
of La Cumparsita in a Scott Joplin piece. Joplin wrote this piece after he
took a Florida vacation at the same time as a tango composer was residing
there, and that's the only clue to the connection. He also has a ragtime
piece with words that refer to how the tango dancers get even closer when
Ragtime is played.

He and his partner like dancing Canyengue to ragtime, and he would love to
have any other justification for dancing tango steps to Ragtime music.

Lois Donnay
Minneapolis, MN