Re: [TANGO-L] Tango emotions - pick your favorite

[Alex <alejandro.delmonte @NTLWORLD.COM>]

Brian, you've made very many great points [excerpts below]. The **depth** of
feeling in the here and now, whichever the feeling is..., tango! I like
that. The idea of the dance as "a safe place to be dangerous" seems to me
also very perceptive.

'Depth', 'profoundity', 'intensity': in my mind these are very apt words for
tango. Please take a look at the current issue of the National Geographic,
the opening picture of the article 'And still they tango'. I bought two
copies, one of them to cut this picture out and frame it on my wall.

Going back to the original thread, 'Reluctance to dance milonga', it is only
that I don't sense this potential for depth in milonga --with all due
respect to the committed milongeros out there. This is my experience.

Tangera Alegra asked in the list why some men don't dance milonga and I put
my two cents here.

Alex.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Dunn" <brian @DANCEOFTHEHEART.COM>

> She said that although many people think the
> tango is only about dark feelings of being sad or lustful or angry, it's
> actually about "deep" feelings as opposed to "light" feelings.

> Luciana seemed to be saying that
> tango can be an "emotional amplifier" that can help us focus WHATEVER is
> happening in our emotional lives with a deep intensity perhaps not
otherwise
> available to us.

> Tango can provide, as my
> acting teacher says of her acting workshop,  ".a safe place to be
>  dangerous." because after all, it can also feel threatening/dangerous to
> give in to feelings of deep happiness - what if they go away?

> Sabato's [...] implied criticism was not
> against happy tango, but SHALLOW tango.
>
> All the best,
> Brian Dunn