3176  Is this Tango?

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:30:49 -0500
From: Alberto Sanders <tangotango@EUROPE.COM>
Subject: Is this Tango?

Hello everybody

Question

I have taken several classes with Mauricio Castro.
In some part of the class we have dance to any type of music you can imagine.
From heavy metal to pop.

This dance, is it tango?
I don't mean to ask if it is important that is tango or not.
Of course we can have fun in a million different ways.
But the question stills how we should call it.

Greetings !!!
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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:57:34 +0100
From: Peter Turowski <tangopeter@GMX.DE>
Subject: Re: Is this Tango?

>But the question stills how we should call it.

Here's a quote from a tango-discovery workshop,
held by Mauricio Castro in germany:
"If your movements feel like shit - they are and look like shit"

Well - if the music sounds like...

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:30:24 -0500
From: Alberto Sanders <tangotango@EUROPE.COM>
Subject: Re: Is this Tango?

From: "Peter Turowski" <tangopeter@GMX.DE>
Subject: Re: [TANGO-L] Is this Tango?

> Here's a quote from a tango-discovery workshop,
> held by Mauricio Castro in germany:
> "If your movements feel like shit - they are and look like shit"

That is a good point.

> Well - if the music sounds like...

The thing is if we are dancing to Pop (the dance should be called Pop)
If next song we are dancing to launge music (it should have another name).

So I think to call it the name of the music we are dancing is too much.

I'm not talking about if is tango is right or if is not tango is wrong.
The thing is if you recomend a class like that to someone, what would you say?

Best to all
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:28:53 -0800
From: ramiro garcia <ramiro9@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Is this Tango?

If you recommend a yoga class to someone to improve their
posture in tango, what would you say?

"Go to this yoga-tango class."

or

"Go to this tanyoga class."

or

"Go to this class, I think it will improve your tango."

Worry about the substance, not the form.

ramiro

--- Alberto Sanders <tangotango@EUROPE.COM> wrote:

> From: "Peter Turowski" <tangopeter@GMX.DE>
> Subject: Re: [TANGO-L] Is this Tango?
>
> > Here's a quote from a tango-discovery workshop,
> > held by Mauricio Castro in germany:
> > "If your movements feel like shit - they are and look like
> shit"
>
> That is a good point.
>
> > Well - if the music sounds like...
>
> The thing is if we are dancing to Pop (the dance should be
> called Pop)
> If next song we are dancing to launge music (it should have
> another name).
>
> So I think to call it the name of the music we are dancing is
> too much.
>
> I'm not talking about if is tango is right or if is not tango
> is wrong.
> The thing is if you recomend a class like that to someone,
> what would you say?
>
> Best to all

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ramiro garcia
ramiro9@yahoo.com
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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 20:09:26 +0000
From: Sergio Vandekier <sergiovandekier990@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Is this tango?

" I have taken several classes with Mauricio Castro.
In some part of the class we have dance to any type of music you can
imagine.
From heavy metal to pop.

This dance, is it tango?
I don't mean to ask if it is important that is tango or not.
Of course we can have fun in a million different ways.
But the question stills how we should call it."

This is my personal opinion, other people may differ.

The tango choreography can be danced to any type of music: the steps and
figures remain the same but the feeling and the total experience is
different with every type of music.

It is possible to dance fox-trot, rumba or cha-cha to certain music written
in 4x4. The feeling changes somewhat but not as much as it does with tango.

How do we call dancing tango to non-tango music? - I would call it
alternative tango.