There is hardly anything that is discussed as complex as the dance posture. Interestingly, roles are already derived by the arm posture. When asked why the leader has the left arm on top, so far I’ve never received a biomechanically plausible answer from world champions. Dancing is by nature a ritual that reflects a sense of intimacy between the sexes, especially in couple dancing. Therefore, a dance touches me only when the dancers stay in their roles. For me especially the comparison with paintings and frames fits. The woman is the painting and the Lord is the frame. The frame […]
Daily archives: 25. April 2018
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“La Caminata” literally means “mountain hike”. However, a Grande Maestro from Argentina gets glowing eyes while using it and talks about how the tango step is “right” to perform.The hard step approach of the ballroom dancers (with a strong staccato in the footflick*) is not much appreciated in Tango Argentino. The step approach should be rather soft and correspond to the weight transfer of the danced emotion. Since the Tango Argentino does not specify any fixed step patterns, the rhythm is also freely selectable. I see the art of the tango therein is to musically shape the weight transfer and […]
Since 2017, more and more workshops on the subject of music are offered. Argentine maestros explain the transformation of Tango Argentino over the decades in their workshops. The tango boom in Argentina began when the radio prevailed in Argentina. However, the quality of the sound recordings was very noisy and are unacceptable for the current state of the art (even though tango jockeys always want to make us happy with these old recordings). Mostly the same songs are from a current band in excellent quality … and I think an artist is allowed to make a good living already during his […]