We may well believe that Tango is not a single dance, as has often been mentioned on this list. It can be danced in many ways, ranging from a variety of accents, flavours to total reconstructs. But to call all of it tango, there must surely be a binding force. What is this force? What makes us call some forms of dance NOT tango? Is it a mindset; the steps, the music? Absolutely not! All these elements are constantly changing, sometimes very dramatically. It would, from a logical viewpoint seem that tango only exists in the imagination. Only limited by the cerebral neurons of the practitioners. But I think we all possess an almost primeval intuition that this isn't so. In fact we all seem to apply instinctive, though undefined boundaries when we think tango. But are these boundaries the same for us all? Who knows! But therein lies the definition and future of tango. Some say don't think about it, just dance. Well, I for one, am not going to settle for the tango vision of my hometown Beenleigh. Nor for that matter Brisbane. Probably not even Australia ... can you imagine a Waltzing Matilda version of Tango? I'll take the conservative road and gain inspiration and direction from Buenos Aires.
Would you call this dance tango if it wasn't called something else? If not why doesn't it qualify? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRw62Ouq-0A Anton -----Original Message----- From: tango-l-boun...@mit.edu [mailto:tango-l-boun...@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Sandhill Crane Sent: Wednesday, 26 January 2011 7:32 AM To: Tango-L@mit.edu Subject: [Tango-L] regional varieties of tango, was: Melina's two cents --- On Tue, 1/25/11, Anton Stanley <an...@alidas.com.au> wrote: > Personally, I don't prefer internationalisation of tango. > Where every variation or deviation is legitimate. > In the future we might get accustomed to US Tango, > British Tango, Canadian Tango, Turkish Tango, Iranian Tango, > Russian Tango, Mexican Tango etc. Each maybe different; > each legitimate tango. I dunno, I think that would be kind of cool. Traveling these days isn't as much fun as it was in the old days. Nowadays everything is homogenized. I would like it if I could go to another city and have a distinctly different tango experience (as well as distinct food, distinct language, etc). I could see a different way of looking at tango by visiting another city. That's really the benefit of travel -- that you see that yours is not the only way of looking at things. Travel teaches you that it's possible to live with a different set of assumptions; that takes the edge off a person. At this point there are some regional differences but communities derived from the post-1982 tango renaissance are too young to have really developed their own character. I'm looking forward to different communities really developing their own flavor. _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l