Ballroom style

[AndaBien]

...Who knows what the truth is, but these are some of the things I have been told.

Are you implying that there is a truth? Or are you referring Dr. Seuss' Who?

 

[dchester]

Are you implying that there is a truth? Or are you referring Dr. Seuss' Who?

I guess I am implying there is a truth, but I'm also admitting that I don't know how much of what I've been told, is true.

 

[JohnEm]

I've talked to some Argentines who say the style should have been named after Carlos and Rosa (of course they agreed that the style exists). Some also say that the style existed long before anyone gave it a name. While others say that style was named after the region, and other neighborhoods had their own styles, like Almagro style (Susana Miller called it Milonguero style), but the ease of traveling blurred things, and now many of the regional styles have been consolidated.

It seems that Susana Miller maybe started this naming of a variety of styles
that formerly just known under the umbrella term of Salon.

Teaching by explaining rather than doing makes different demands and that
of vocabulary and description is just one of them (ok, two).

It's worth noting (or maybe not) that the Carlos Perez was a professional
performance dancer from a young age so his expertise was the display of tango
for the entertainment of the public. It explains a lot about his style and its adoption
for (visually judged) competition as so-called VU has always struck me as
a performance choreographer's idea of social dancing. It is more visual
with the emphatically personal connection of the embrace reduced to a less
controversial hold of more appeal to onlookers rather than to each partner.

Who knows what the truth is, but these are some of the things I have been told.

It's Tango, it's all true and none of it.

 

[Dave Bailey]

I know why - here's a quote from Horacio Godoy on
VU......
", it's about the musicality and the quality of the movement. It's about a wealth of knowledge so subtle and complex that for the ordinary eye is imperceptible. "

I did a "Villa Urquiza" workshop with Horacio Godoy a couple of years ago - here's my review from the class.

Re-reading it, I can't help but thinking that he was trying to shoe-horn "VU" into the workshop title...