1456  This previous post spoke volumes

Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 09:58:01 -0700
From: Gary Fay <gtf_ctim@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: This previous post spoke volumes

Tango L Members

The post below spoke volumes. I did the country and
western style dance and moved to Tango. It was very
different, one of the biggest hurdles has been
learning to dance in two halfs and leading with the
chest instead of with just my arms/hands. Being a
lumper not a splitter; I took things from tango and
added them to my Two Step. Change is never one way but
keeping an open mind tends to yield unexpected
benefits.


Gary F

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Rumba, mambo, bolero, merengue, salsa, cumbia samba
come from tropical areas of America (the American
Continent) :)). As we dance them, we feel the warm air
caressing the palm trees, the smell of spicy food, the
sweat humidity of the tropics, the refreshing cooling
of the daily rain.
[...]
So we listen to Opera, German music, taste olive oil,
drink wine, beer, dance salsa, country-western, etc.
*When we do that we try to understand the culture that
originated them. Once we achieve that we enjoy and
feel our life with intense power and emotion.

There are people whose heart is closed to anything
that is not familiar to them. They try to adjust the
rest of the world to their limited reality. They
attempt to impose their way of living and feeling to
the rest of humanity. They will demand that the Arabs
live in democracy, that the Moslems women uncover
their heads, that the streets of Spain be devoid of
food aroma, will sing "La Traviata" to rock&roll,
transform the natural hip undulation of the Rumba into
a robotic exercise of 'Latin Motion', place
Aida in Germany, Sigfrid and the Walkirias in Italy,
have their picture taken with the Venus of Milo and
live happy ever after.

Those people already worked on Argentine Tango during
the first coming. They created the American and the
International Styles. They are in action once again
during this second coming, we shall see what
product their infinite creative process will bear.

In summary: I agree art is a process, something that
changes continuously to express the personality of the
people, each people, all people. Tango is no
exception, but there are certain things that are so
special, so unique, so good that deserve to be
preserved through times unchanged. This is what we
call "classic" something having lasting significance
or
worth. I believe in that sense that Tango is classic.