5371  Tango technique vs. Milonga technique

Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:49:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Mario <sopelote@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Tango-L] Tango technique vs. Milonga technique
To: tango-l@mit.edu

As a newly obsessed learner (3mos.) of A.T., I find it startling the amount of controversy and contention on threads about Tango technique...what is good form and what isn't, is so heatedly debated that it often looks more like a war zone than the simple sharing of information. So much difference of opinion and staunchly defended approaches to also include such minute nuance/details of posture, balance, muscle groups, exercises, etc., etc. that it seems a daunting task to even attempt to do the dance..
And on the other hand, whenever the Milonga (song) is discussed. There is usually a statement or two, rarely a disagreement, not much in the way of splitting hairs nor defensiveness and almost no strongly held opinions...
I don't get it. Why is it like that, what's the BIG difference between the two songs/dances that would produce such a different intellectual approach between them??
Is it that one is just fun and the other more serious and painful?? What's up?




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