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Re: Need Argentine Tango syllabus
Posted by Guest
1/12/2016  3:58:00 AM
I don't want to be offensive, but the very fact that you mention 'salida' in your basic components gives away the fact that what you would be likely to produce would be a ballroom oriented pastiche of the dance.

Tango is dominated, sadly, by professional performers, competitors and choreographers. There is very little work for even the best of them (and I don't deride their skills in executing choreographed stage tango for our entertainment); but social tango is a fundamentally different dance; based on the improvisational use of a different vocabulary of movement and with a different technique. Unfortunately, success, in the professional sphere, is the usual springboard for professional tango dancers to launch a teaching career.

The fundamental requirement for a good social tango dancer is to be the embodiment of musicality in response to tango dance music, and to use the vocabulary of the dance in the embrace of a partner, to reflect the music in the moment. You can't teach that online. No one can or could. Sadly, most tango teachers come from a background in which they do not (and probably never have) danced tango socially. What so often emerges is a woeful attempt to teach stage tango 'lite' to gullible students, most of whom will never join the tango dancing community. By and large, experienced tango dancers stay well away from teachers and their spheres of influence, and just dance in each others embrace, as they always have.

There is a sort of tango, danced at studio parties and in similar venues, where a few songs may be played as part of a mixed programme along with other styles. Dancers will get up and dance their moves, or worse, their routine. Teach that, if you must, but don't pretend that it is more than tangentially connected with tango.
Re: Need Argentine Tango syllabus
Posted by terence2
1/13/2016  11:39:00 PM
Well stated!
Re: Need Argentine Tango syllabus
Posted by dancyn
1/21/2021  8:18:00 AM
Hi, Dan. Dance Vision International Dance Association (DVIDA) has syllabi in Argentine Tango Bronze through Platinum, as well as videos in variations and technical aspects, and manuals. Although one normally must be a subscriber to view them, several can be viewed by searching YouTube for "DVIDA Argentine Tango". Hope this helps.
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