Re: [TANGO-L] Ballroom and Argentine tango

[Mallpasso @AOL.COM]

So which came first?  Would it be presumptuous of me to say International 
Ballroom Tango copied the original tango from Argentina?  That Argentine tango 
evolved but not IBT?

mallpasso



In a message dated 6/8/2003 12:43:51 Pacific Standard Time, 
tanturi999 @YAHOO.COM writes:

> Subj: Re: [TANGO-L] Ballroom and Argentine tango 
>  Date: 6/8/2003 12:43:51 Pacific Standard Time
>  From: <A HREF="mailto:tanturi999 @YAHOO.COM";>tanturi999 @YAHOO.COM</A>
>  To: <A HREF="mailto:TANGO-L @MITVMA.MIT.EDU";>TANGO-L @MITVMA.MIT.EDU</A>
>  Sent from the Internet 
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> For my personal opinion - since apparently the
> tango music that was recorded from that time in
> Argentina was quite different from the music of
> the Golden Age, I think we can assume that the
> dance steps (and feeling) have changed as well.
> Imagine dancing your Di Sarli or Troilo steps to the
> music on "El Bandoneon de Pacho".
> 
> (I say "apparently" in the paragraph above since I'm
> certainly no expert.)
> 
> "Ricardo"
> 
> --- Sergio <Cachafaz @ADELPHIA.NET> wrote:
> >Tango guy says:
> >
> >"Actually, Ballroom Tango has had a longer history
> >then the modern Argentine
> >Tango. Argentine Tango as we know it today did not
> >even exist when modern
> >Ballroom Tango began in the 1910's. (At that time,
> >it wasn't called Ballroom
> >Tango but just Tango) In the teens, Argentine Tango
> >was the Canyengue which
> >is very different then what we dance today. "
> >
> >I am curious to know if anybody agrees with this.
> >
> 
> 
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