Re: [TANGO-L] Ballroom and Argentine tango

[Bruce Stephens <bruce @CENDERIS.DEMON.CO.UK>]

Ricardo Tanturi <tanturi999 @YAHOO.COM> writes:

> For what it's worth - Richard Powers is an American scholar of
> vintage dance at Stanford.  I think I remember hearing him say that
> according to his analysis of written descriptions of Tango in
> Argentina in the decade following the turn of the century, the tango
> that was danced at that time was very similar to the International
> Tango of today.  In other words, that International Ballroom Tango
> is a sort of frozen snapshot of tango as it was danced around 1910.

<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.GSO.3.96.990828195756.14058B-100000%40myth8.Stanford.EDU>

(In summary, he says yes, that's what happened: ballroom tango is
different in superficial ways (and definitely the music), but
Argentine tango has changed more.  Ditto for samba.)

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