I have a simple description. Admittedly, you can find more complicated explanations:
Musicality is when Movement Energy Corresponds to Musical Energy. Energy is still a fuzzy, undefined concept, but it includes various aspects of movement such as speed, force, size, suspension, acceleration, lift, grounded-ness. So musicality is about adjusting your physical movements to go with the music in a pleasing (again undefined) manner. To teach it, you have to provide examples of musicality in the exercises. The goal is to offer enough varied examples, that people can ultimately learn it how it feels in the kinesthetic sense. So, for example, I teach brand new beginners to walk with musicality by matching their short elements to the musical phrase. Tango is built on four plus four equals eight walking beats. Initiate movement (compression and accelerate or surge) on the one or five, and come together stationary on the four or eight (suspend, momentum = zero). I'm very deterministic, and really insist on beginning at one and ending at four. Wooden? Yes at first, but at least they are wooden WITH the music instead of walking woodenly and aimlessly around the room. The value here is that when movement energy corresponds to musical energy for these 4+4=8 steps, then they "FEEL" right, the leaders are more confident, the followers learn about their musicality (i.e. how they respond through the connection), and that all adds up to bringing people closer to kinesthetic awareness (i.e. achieving musicality through intuitive learning). On Nov 30, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Igor Polk wrote: > Following Steve's thoughts, > I have deepen more into that, and to my surprise have found that I > can not > really define what people understand under the term "Musicality". > I can not say what it is. I know that dancing supposed to be with > music. ( > And I believe I myself dance musically too ) But on a logical side, or > rather sociological side I am confused. > > If it is so common, can one define what "musicality" is? > What most people understand under "musicality"? > So if one say: "This is a musicality lesson" what people expect? > Those who > come and those who do not? > > Another question is how to develop it. > > Igor Polk _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l