We are in the process of starting up our dance company again after about a year's hiatus (part of the delay was our director broke her ankle just as we had come up with new plans
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No surprise, but you really "get" the music. Tango was considered so overtly sexual at this time that they ornamented the music in a way to sweeten it up a bit for American audiences, and the sheet music covers frequently showed it danced by two ingenue-type girls, rather than a man and a woman. We look at two girls dancing tango today in a completely different context!
Side note: you could probably do vintage tango, it's less knee-intensive. Vintage tango is kind of like a slower Argentine, without the kicks and flicks and body crosses. But it confuses the hell out of American standard ballroom tango dancers because it's about leading and following, not about following a 4-beat pattern.
I learned tango in my Stage Movement class; it was flashier than what was being taught in the Phys. Ed. dept's Ballroom class (when they got to the tango, I muttered to my boyfriend, "This is lame--just follow my lead..." The teachers were rather taken aback by our spins and dips :->) but certainly not as athletic as hardcore Argentinian.
(I would love to take a ballroom course with hudebnik someday, but his university always holds them on Friday night, which would be difficult for us--we've never had a semester in which we had every single Friday night free) :-/
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That is some voluptuous music, too--it just cries out "tea dance in the garden (or maybe the orangerie)" :-)
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Side note: you could probably do vintage tango, it's less knee-intensive. Vintage tango is kind of like a slower Argentine, without the kicks and flicks and body crosses. But it confuses the hell out of American standard ballroom tango dancers because it's about leading and following, not about following a 4-beat pattern.
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I learned tango in my Stage Movement class; it was flashier than what was being taught in the Phys. Ed. dept's Ballroom class (when they got to the tango, I muttered to my boyfriend, "This is lame--just follow my lead..." The teachers were rather taken aback by our spins and dips :->) but certainly not as athletic as hardcore Argentinian.
(I would love to take a ballroom course with hudebnik someday, but his university always holds them on Friday night, which would be difficult for us--we've never had a semester in which we had every single Friday night free) :-/
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JUST SAYIN'. :P
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