3981 Tango vs. Ballroom
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:16:13 +0000
From: Lucia <curvasreales@YAHOO.COM.AR>
Subject: Re: Tango vs. Ballroom
--- Rain 4est <bailartangos@YAHOO.COM> escribis:
> Just for the sake of argument, if you dance Tango,
> you're pretty much dancing
> one dance, the whole night long.
> .
> If you're dancing ballroom, you're typically
> dancing as many different dances as you have fingers
> on your hands.
> .
> R4
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Your argument reminds me of Graham Greene's "Travels
with my Aunt". A character in the novel choses not to
travel, becoming a womanizer instead. As Greene saw
it, it was an equivalent to travel: changing for new
perspectives, geographies, topographies, languages...
One could have such fantasies during every tanda with
a new partner...all night long...
Tango is, arguably, a dance of courtship. Ballroom
dance, intrinsically, is not.
Lucia ;->
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:44:56 +0000
From: Lucia <curvasreales@YAHOO.COM.AR>
Subject: Re: Courtship: Tango vs. Ballroom (correction)
I have been graciously corrected by Close embrace -
in any dance.
I wholly agree with the correction, and made me
wonder where were my wits while writing my original
missive. Here is the correction:
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"Lucia, gentle "correction" - studio/competitive
ballroom certainly is
not [courtship].
But SOCIAL (nightclub improv, etc.) definitely is
still "courtship"
(and
seduction !)- the reason "couple dancing" (read: close
embrace !!!)
retains
its ageless appeal...
How better to "court" than the close embrace of a
Frank Sinatra
foxtrot,
body to body in a languid bolero, a smoldering rumba,
etc...
Best wishes, Close embrace - in any dance"
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Well said.
Lucia
--- Lucia <curvasreales@YAHOO.COM.AR> escribis:
> --- Rain 4est <bailartangos@YAHOO.COM> escribis:
>
> > Just for the sake of argument, if you dance Tango,
> > you're pretty much dancing
> > one dance, the whole night long.
> > .
> > If you're dancing ballroom, you're typically
> > dancing as many different dances as you have
> fingers
> > on your hands.
> > .
> > R4
> >
>
> Your argument reminds me of Graham Greene's "Travels
> with my Aunt". A character in the novel choses not
> to
> travel, becoming a womanizer instead. As Greene saw
> it, it was an equivalent to travel: changing for new
> perspectives, geographies, topographies,
> languages...
>
> One could have such fantasies during every tanda
> with
> a new partner...all night long...
>
> Tango is, arguably, a dance of courtship. Ballroom
> dance, intrinsically, is not.
>
> Lucia ;->
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Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:05:36 +0000
From: Sergio Vandekier <sergiovandekier990@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Courtship: Tango vs. Ballroom
The reason you can dance all night long "only tango" is that every tango is
different from the others, every partner gives you a different experience,
the orchestras are all different and require a different dancing approach.
Milongas and valses add the immense diversity of Argentine Tango.
You create a different tango each time, using the hundreds of links in a
different chain sequence.
When you dance ball room on the other hand you are going to utilize for
every dance, the 8 or ten figures that you know. You go through them in
about two dances. You are forced to change the type of music otherwise you
would be bored. Hence two fox-trots, two cha-chas, two waltzes, two mambos,
etc.
Sergio
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:13:43 +0000
From: Lucia <curvasreales@YAHOO.COM.AR>
Subject: Re: Courtship: Tango vs. Ballroom
Sergio,
I have to disagree with you. I dance tango exclusively, no matter what music is playing, therefore I cannot give you an authoritative commentary, just a common-sensical one.
My argument is that, as the great diversity of TANGO DANCE is ultimately created by people loving to "Dance" - and less by the music which is merely the catalyst, I do not see why the same creativity should be denied from people loving to "Dance" to a different drum... And last time that I looked, sure they had a blast!
Besides, there are probably more styles, orchestras and rhythms than in Tango...
Lucia ;-)
Sergio Vandekier <sergiovandekier990@HOTMAIL.COM> escribis: The reason you can dance all night long "only tango" is that every tango is
different from the others, every partner gives you a different experience,
the orchestras are all different and require a different dancing approach.
Milongas and valses add the immense diversity of Argentine Tango.
You create a different tango each time, using the hundreds of links in a
different chain sequence.
When you dance ball room on the other hand you are going to utilize for
every dance, the 8 or ten figures that you know. You go through them in
about two dances. You are forced to change the type of music otherwise you
would be bored. Hence two fox-trots, two cha-chas, two waltzes, two mambos,
etc.
Sergio
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