4358  a tango moment

Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:48:28 -0300
From: Deby Novitz <dnovitz@lavidacondeby.com>
Subject: [Tango-L] a tango moment
To: tango-l@mit.edu

It's like good sex, you don't know why or how, but you definitely know
when...

Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 18:06:43 -0400
From: "Daniel Saindon" <gardien@TANGO.MONTREAL.QC.CA>
Subject: [Tango-L] Define a tango moment (Collectively experienced
before being taken personally )
To: <TANGO-L@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
reply-type=response

Good evening

I have received two personal annswers to
my early posting of this morning:

One said

> That was a very good description, similar not identical to the few ones I
> had.

Another one wrote::

>This is it!? That is what you call a tango moment!?
>If so, that is the tango moment level 1. Out of 10.
>Of course, it is nice. It is when a beginner finally realize what is
>dancing
>( slow ). But this is only level 1. And there is a lot ahead..

My purpose for intervention was only to emphasize
that to some people experiencing tango in a milonga
was first and foremost a "collective" moment experienced
by the group before it is experienced at the "personal" level.

Daniel Saindon, Montreal

Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 15:37:05 -0700
From: "Igor Polk" <ipolk@VIRTUAR.COM>
Subject: [Tango-L] Define a tango moment (Collectively experienced
before being taken personally )
To: <TANGO-L@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>

Daniel, well put.

There is definitely an important thing: a collective tango moment. It is
made of individual moments and amplifies individual moments. That is why
some milongas are better than others.

Thanks for clarifying it!

It looks like tango moments are so different and vary in degrees. For
example, sometime ago I was at a little milonga where only 3 couples were
present dancing. Tango stopped. Silence. No one start talking, couple
dissolve still holding arms for a moment, room became a magical kingdom.
Then another dance started. In those seconds between music I felt a tango
moment strongly related to the whole group inside.

Igor.