What makes Argentine Tango unique among all styles of dance? Is it the unique movements or could it be something else?
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Tango dancers often think that the great divide in tango dancing is in the styles, but it may be in the musicality. Good musicality connects the dancers and even connects dancers to the onlookers. No matter your tango taste, whether open embrace, closed embrace, tango nuevo or other styles, good musicality is important. Regardless of the style, dancers become connected by interpreting and enjoying the tango music in that moment.
How does musicality impact your Tango?
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Musicality is one of the most important things in Argentine Tango. In our classes at La Rogaia we focus strongly on it. Actually we´ve started to shift to it more and more the longer we teach, focussing less on steps.
Just one simple idea: If the dance floor is crowded and you have no space to do big sequences of steps or big steps at all, what you always have is the music.
You can dance on the place, or moving slowly in the line of the dance, taking only small steps, following the rhythm. There is a saying among old milongueros. “Primera la musica, segundo el sentimiento, tercero l´elegancia. Por ultima las figuras. Asi se baila!”
With kind regards
Wolfgang