Comments on: Argentine Tango – Musicality http://www.ballroomjournal.com/archives/ballroom-dance-music/argentine-tango-musicality Ballroom Latin and Swing Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:49:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Wolfgang http://www.ballroomjournal.com/archives/ballroom-dance-music/argentine-tango-musicality/comment-page-1#comment-444 Wolfgang Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:18:41 +0000 http://www.ballroomjournal.com/?p=573#comment-444 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 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

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