Thanks Damian. To make it easy, some other videos of Damian are at:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=PlatypusReign&view=videos Cheers -------------------------------------------------- From: "Noughts" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 12:12 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: [Tango-L] Tango - Smooth dancing... > G'day all from Australia. Hope you are all well. > > It was most complimentary to even find that I was the centre of any > discussion where no one wanted to hurt me, fire me or shoot me :-), > but a discussion on Tango and dancing tango. > > Many, in fact all of us have our own perspectives on what is and what > is not tango. I would never try to tell you what tango should be to > any of you. But I would like to make some comments. > > The video's that were picked were all very very social dancing videos > and the only one really worth watching of those (even though they are > cute...) was the last one posted by Sergio > (http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/tango-l/2009-February/009644.html) > > The other videos were all for the person that I was dancing with for > various reasons... certainly not for my dancing, but for theirs. > Sometimes so family overseas could see that they were alive and well > and others to show family that they actually do dance.. .mostly for > them though. > Most of those were so the person that I was dancing with could see > their own dancing and what they were doing... > Most of them were not even meant to be musical, but were for fault > correction and self evaluation that most of my students go through. > I am not in a close embrace most of the time as I am actually teaching > them how to be on their own axis to improve their dancing....not to > mention a simple fact like - the height difference makes it very > difficult to dance close embrace or salon (yes, there is a difference) > with them as opposed to with Oliwia (above video) or say someone like > Michelle Erdemsel whom I love dancing with or Mariana Dragone whom I > also love dancing with. > Also very interesting that you mention Fabrizio (who by the way, loves > my dancing), he is the most influential teacher (and very close > friend) I have had and I have spent a lot of time with Herrerra, > Chicho, Naviera, Torreli, Farfaro and quite a few others. > > Like another post mentions, comparing me to Zotto - LOL! That is both > incredibly fantastic and incredibly silly - here is the quote, "a very > ordinary, intermediate nobody, like many of us I suspect, to one of > the world's greatest exponents of Tango. Not really a fair > comparison:". Well, as for a nobody, well I have taught in Europe, > every city in Australia ('cept Perth), and Buenos Aires, so whilst I'm > a 'nobody', I have certainly accomplished more than most... > > I never want to dance like Zotto - I personally hate toe steppers as > that is a ballet influence and a stage tango technique - and I am very > good friends with many many stage dancers and champions. I want to > dance like...... me. I really would encourage you to look at some of > my other videos if you want to compare me to Zotto, maybe ones say > where I am actually either doing a performance, or dancing with a > person that I both know, and am very comfortable dancing with because > I can assure you that if I was video'd dancing with say, Cecilia > Gonzalez, Mariana Dragone, Eugenia Parrilla, Alexandra Hubert or one > of the many many other incredibly famous dancers, then your > observations would be different again... One in particular is Edith > Paez, one of the judges for the World Tango Championships, who > considers me to be one of her favourite dancers ever - she also dance > for 20 years on stage from the age of 16 with the likes of Miguel > Zotto and Roberto Herrerra. Perspective... different perspectives. > > IN perspective, whom you dance with also either limits or enhances > what you are able to do and let's face it, you don't want to connect > with everyone, in fact, you can't. We are human after all. Some > people we just won't, don't or can't connect with. > > So, I guess I'm saying, really unless you have danced with me and I'm > not teaching you, then evaluating my dance or anyone elses especially > labelled "social" may not be either that accurate, or fair. > > Hope to see all of your dancing on youtube too ;-) > > Keep happy in Tango > Damian > _______________________________________________ > Tango-L mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l > _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
