Monday, 30 March 2009

Improvising Tango Argentino

Argentine Tango is all about improvisation. Well, at least traditionally so.

Improvisation means no fixed rules & no fixed steps; on the other hand, you can't simply move your body on the dance floor and say you're improvising Tango...You've got to get the right "feel".

So how do we "learn" improvisation?

1) pick up existing steps;
2) watch people dance;
3) try & experiment & practice.

You can't miss any of the above. And the reason we do all these, is to (through different dimensions) capture the "feel" of Argentine Tango...so we can play it out when improvising...

Just another example of intangibles captured in tangible form.


Update:

May it also serve as a reminder: don't get too obsessed with the tangible form itself.

What we are after, after all, is the intangibles.

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