I'm sure I have a video somewhere that shows Fabian Salas demonstrating to a class how simple tango can be. I found it beautiful as a tango. The thing is that it's nothing but walking. Put that series of steps to rap and I don't think I could accept it as tango. To the best of my knowledge, I don't think there's any reference anywhere that codified any steps in tango. It's difficult I would imagine, to apply scientific analysis to a subject that exists only in the imagination of practitioners. That's the only tango inheritance I believe we have. Like so many of this age, I believe we devalue much of our past, selectively choosing only the bits we find to our liking.
Anton -----Original Message----- From: tango-l-boun...@mit.edu [mailto:tango-l-boun...@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Trini y Sean (PATangoS) Sent: Tuesday, 12 April 2011 2:42 PM To: Tango-L Subject: Re: [Tango-L] tango to rap > I can accept the hypothesis that you > can dance any type of step to tango > music and legitimately call it tango, but I can't accept > that dancing the > same steps to any other music, can be called tango. Are you referring an any individual step or a series of steps? I would tend to agree that an individual movement could be included as tango. However, a whole series of movement would bring it into question. It seems to me that those who are against including dancing to non-tango music in the world of tango do so out of personal preference. That's fine, but I've yet to hear an argument based on something that would withstand scientific scrutiny. Trini de Pittsburgh _______________________________________________ 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