Re: [TANGO-L] hard wiring and milonga

[Antonio Cervila Junior <junior @CERVILA.COM>]

Why people try to say what is right and what is wrong in tango???
This is popular dance and as a popular dance there is no right or wrong. 
There is a way that you feel comfortable doing that doesn't mean that is the only way or even the "right" way.
Classical ballet has it's rules and it is like that all over the world. But you can't put rules in a dance created on the streets. It limits its development.
A teacher must not be a dictator. But only show the way that he prefer. The student is free to choose the different stiles or even better, a mix of all creating his own stile.

Antonio Cervila Junior 
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: romerob<mailto:romerob  @TELUSPLANET.NET> 
  To: TANGO-L  @MITVMA.MIT.EDU<mailto:TANGO-L  @MITVMA.MIT.EDU> 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 10:57 PM
  Subject: Re: [TANGO-L] hard wiring and milonga


  >Ochos in milonga?  Ooof!  ...only in an emergency (or maybe as a joke)!<

  Not sure this is the right approach when disregarding dancing ochos in
  milonga. Ochos derive from the doble corte -- as in cortes and quebradas.
  Cortes and Quebradas were part of milonga choreography of the black dancers
  from Montevideo and compadritos from Buenos Aires. A doble corte means
  simply stepping one foot across the other. One (the man) can do it twice on
  the same side left or right, or one can step once on the left side and then
  on the right side, which will produce an ocho. The more seasoned tango
  dancers do it, may be they do not call it doble corte. The dance
  choreography of canyengue has the doble corte. A more refined version of the
  doble corte can be seen in the milonga demo of Victor Romero and Norma Galli
  when they dance to D'Arienzo's papas calientes.

  Regards,

  Bruno 

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