1177  The difference between tango and the other social dances

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:30:00 +0200
From: skoc <skoc@NOOS.FR>
Subject: The difference between tango and the other social dances

Hi everyone,

The subjects that have been going on lately about rythm, music, students
stopping etc. were very interesting.

I would like to share with you a new thought hoping that it will
"cross-fertilise" like it happened with the other subjects.

It seems to me having been a dancer of other dance types that I would say
that Tango is the only social dance type (by social I also mean improvised)
I know where the communication is not established through a cycle (in which
you might find push - pull energies at a given count *and/or have a specific
foot routine etc.) but by the connection, the posture, the walk... allowing
you to create all the cycles and energy flows you want and to invent
different musical or rythmic patterns.

Maybe this is also because the whole idea of communication and dancing is
build upon the shape, the particulatiries, the mechanisms of the human body
that makes tango so special... at least technically.

But I do not want to be misunderstood, I'm not claiming that tango is
superior to other dances or anything such. I stand against racism between
dance types, there is already enough of it all around us. As Bijart said
"the important is not the dance type but that the dance is be well danced".

Stef