3298  What Draws Us to Argentine Tango

Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:56:02 -0600
From: Stephen Brown <Stephen.P.Brown@DAL.FRB.ORG>
Subject: What Draws Us to Argentine Tango

Rose wrote:

>Tango is about a feeling, it is about the music, it is
>about connecting with your partner. It is these
>things that can be universally understood. When you
>go to Buenos Aires you begin to understand where the
>feeling came from. The feeling of tango reveals
>itself in the streets of Buenos Aires, in the faces of
>the people, in the way they talk, in the stories that
>they tell. It is something that many of us relate to,
>it is what draws us to the tango.

>And it is the recognition of this feeling that draws
>us to each other, one dancer to the other. You may be
>from one country and I from another, but when we hear
>the tango, when we understand this feeling and I look
>at you and there is this recognition, ah yes you feel
>it too, and we dance together each one revealing
>something of themselves to the other - this is tango.

Thank you Rose!

Fortunately, when we are dancing Argentine tango, the make believe and
petty troubles and controversies on a forum like Tango-L are mostly far
away. We are together with our partner dancing to the music in a space
that we share with others who are mostly pursuing the same activity.

With best regards,
Steve