[TANGO-L] modern music

[A Coleman <gurps_npc @HOTMAIL.COM>]

There is nothing wrong with dancing tango non-traditional music.  It is
still tango.  There is no law, rule, or other requirement that says x is
allowed y is not allowed.

Tango is an art form, and just as Non-argentinians can dance Tango, even if
their skin is not the a color found in argentina, even if their moves are
rarely found in Argentina, you can dance Tango to non-traditional music.

Art is an emotional thing, not a rules thing.  If the emotion is similar,
the steps are similar, if people can look at you and say, I think he is
dancing Argentine Tango, then guess what, he is dancing argentine tango.
Even if it is to Led Zepplin.  (though frankly, I would not think Zepplin is
the way to go.)

There are two kinds of art forms:  Living and Dead.  The dead forms do not
change.  Everything conforms to a set rules, with no additions.  The living
ones change.  New steps are created, new music is danced to, new feelings
are woven into the tapestry we call tango.

You may be able to dance the steps to the right moves, but if Tango can not
add new moves, new thoughts, new emotions, and yes new music, then Tango is
dead for you. The Tango I dance and see danced in New York is a living,
breathing thing, full of change.  We dance to the old stuff, but we also
dance to Gotan, to strange Waltzs, to new music.

If you do not think this is so, then my concept of Tango is so different
than yours, that I would feel safe to say that we are not dancing the same
dance.  If you want to be an arrogant person and claim I dancing New York
Tango, not Argentine Tango, go ahea.  I will not care.  And neither will
quite a few other people.  But heed my warning: If I were you I would be
quite about your prejudices.  If by some chance you run a milonga, take care
or someday you may find yourself in with 10 people instead of 200.  And 5 of
those people would be beginners that we will steal away from you when they
see that we can not only do everything you can and enoy the same songs, but
can ALSO do a hundred wonderful steps that you refuse to learn, and have so
much more wonderfull music that we never repeat it day after day, with each
song being of the finest quality and no fillers.

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