The prior discussion centered on teaching beginners to step on the tango beat.
Some posters felt that it is possible to dance stepping off the beat.
Leaving sarcasms aside, I think that that concept could have some validity and
originate confusion as well.
When we become good tango dancers
--- On Tue, 1/19/10, Don Klein wrote:
> Dancing off-beat does not mean
> without beat. If one dances ahead of (anticipating)
> beat, the difference is the same, so the dancers are in sync
> with the beat. We were discussing this at a weekend
> milonga and a very experienced Latin American tangue
Dancing off-beat does not mean without beat. If one dances ahead of
(anticipating) beat, the difference is the same, so the dancers are in sync
with the beat. We were discussing this at a weekend milonga and a very
experienced Latin American tanguero suggested that to certain music the body
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Don Klein says: "Howard Goodall demonstrates that in Latin music derived from
the Cuban /son /the melody and bass-line anticipate the beat (my pareja judges
a 1/8-1/16). So, assuming Argentine tango music shares this characteristic,
dancing to the melody would clearly be off-beat".
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