Re: [Tango-L] Choreography

["Trini y Sean \(PATangoS\)" <patangos@yahoo.com>]

For "choreography" used in the most common sense in dance: 
I have worked on pieces for demos in which couples (mostly
non-performers) were trying to strictly choreograph to
particular music selections, but it was very difficult. 
What worked better was to just hit a specific accent with a
particular vocabulary.  So it was like trying to hit check
points in a marathon, but not to worry too much about how
to get there (run, walk, hop, etc.).  Perhaps the nuevo
teaching system would come in particularly handy, here.  

For "choreography" in the way I prefer to use it, I think
of it simply as how one combines vocabulary, but it doesn?t
mean following a preset formula.  In a way, any two-step
pattern (rock step, ocho), can be called a choreography,
right?  If one has favorite ways to enter or exit a
particular movement (or habits), doesn?t that become a
choreography?

Trini de Pittsburgh

--- "TangoDC.com" <spatz@tangoDC.com> wrote:

> Dear list,
> 
> As I was watching some tumbleweed airily somersault
> through the 
> ghost-town of my inbox, I began to wonder what you all
> think of 
> choreography as it relates to tango.
> 
> Open season,
> 
> Jake Spatz
> Washington, DC
> 


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