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Re: [TANGO-L] Is "Isla de Capri" a foxtrot?

Andy wrote:

"If you cannot dance foxtrot, you can't hear it, and there it's no
revelation. But if you can, you can doublestep at the right moment."

Actually I use "Isla de Capri" to teach beginners the double-steps since
double-time beats are all over this song - hard to miss. Once they get the
mechanics of the step it's much easier for them to find the steps in more
complex tangos.

Thanks everyone for your responses - quite interesting.


Cheers, Oleh K.

http://TangoSpring.com


From: Andy <andy.ungureanu @T-ONLINE.DE>
Reply-To: Andy <andy.ungureanu @T-ONLINE.DE>
To: TANGO-L @MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [TANGO-L] "Is Isla de Capri" a foxtrot?
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 23:49:31 +0100

Oleh Kovalchuke wrote:


The questions I am curious about are these:
Is "Isla de Capri" a tango or a foxtrot? Please elaborate.


on Todo Tango ( http://www.todotango.com/ )  it is declared as:
Isla de Capri
Tango-Foxtrot
Mzsica: Will Grosz
Letra: Angel del Valle

If it is a foxtrot what is significance of this revelation to dancing
tango
to "Isla de Capri"?


If you listen to the rythm it'simpler to dance slow foxtrot steps, but
slow tango is also OK. If you cannot dance foxtrot, you can't hear it,
and there it's no revelation. But if you can, you can doublestep at the
right moment.

Andy 

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