Alex quotes Richard who says: > Alex - One of the things that continues to astonish me is that many > beginning dancers -- and for all I know many experienced dancers -- > think that if you are holding your partner close to you, then you > are dancing close embrace. In fact,
> in salon tango you are pressed against your partner until you need > to do a figure (front ochos spring to mind) where the embrace needs > to breathe. > Close embrace itself doesn't open up, uses a subset of the figures > of salon tango, and is danced at a slightly different tempo than > salon tango. When I read authoritative-sounding definitions like this I wonder where they came from. Not from Argentina, I suspect. And it reminds me that Daniel Trenner will give a lecture in a few days at Valentango on the "History & Development of Tango in the U.S." I really wish I could go. (I really hope his talk will be published.) I would like to ask Daniel where the term "Close Embrace Tango" came from, and who defined it, and what it originally meant. I am not disputing the definition given by Richard, but just wondering where this term came from. _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
