Adding flair to your tango

[MadamSamba]

There's a guy in our tango scene that always wears a little felt hat. It's got nothing to do with his dancing, but, boy, does it add a little pizzaz. Similarly, we all know of someone who always wears fishnets.

But, other than dress, what can you do to add flair or pizzaz to your tango?

Do you know of someone who does something that really adds to their tango? Perhaps it's a trademark move or a way they hold themselves?

I know one guy who holds women so lightly that you watch him and it looks as though he isn't even touching his partner. It's beautiful to watch. It's like he's a puppeteer.

What can one do to stand out from the crowd?

 

[pygmalion]

I know one guy who holds women so lightly that you watch him and it looks as though he isn't even touching his partner. It's beautiful to watch. It's like he's a puppeteer.

Wow. 8)

 

[Sagitta]

Be yourself! Let yourself be expressed naturally though the music.

 

[Ashley]

I know one guy who holds women so lightly that you watch him and it looks as though he isn't even touching his partner. It's beautiful to watch. It's like he's a puppeteer.

Actually, it's the style around here to touch your partner as little as possible in Argentine--so, the folllow will have her arm floating lightly above her partner's shoulder, but not quite touching, and the same with the lead's frame.

 

[bordertangoman]

Well here in Wales our connection is so good we can be dancing together not only without touching but in different rooms! :?

 

[pygmalion]

Do tell. 8)

 

[DancePoet]

Be yourself! Let yourself be expressed naturally though the music.

Sagitta, I am totally with you on this! The music is the start of where dancing style can begin.

I had another afternoon of Arg Tango. There was the usual difficulties of picking up the intermediate level stuff, this time working on turning on axis, and then the basics in a beginner lesson with slight variations. But then when we had time to "practice" at the end, meanig a 45 minute period of time for just dancing.

I decided to use some of what I knew through my ballroom experiences with tango to express myself through the music. All of a sudden, it became a dance, and the more experienced ladies that were my partners seemed much more comfortable despite me not using any of the intermediate ideas, and using a mix of the basics with some ballroom ideas incorporated into the Argetine style.

 

[MadamSamba]

Yeah, Sagitta and DP, I know just what you're talking about, but was thinking more about technical things people do that make you go, "wow" or "oh, that's odd, but nice"!

It doesn't have to be extravagant or ostentatious, simply something that you notice, something that adds to that dancer's individual style.

It's only naturaly that we all dance differently, but what sets one dancer apart from another is the way they perform the same move someone else can do, but in their own style.