Is This Tango?

[opendoor]

I'm working on a pirouette inspired move. I'm going to call it the piruetada. The goal is to have my partner spin around on her axis, unencumbered by my embrace, while I walk around her. It is very difficult to lead.

I used to call that a vuelta, or spin. But the argentinians call that move simply soltada as well. And it isn´t difficult, and the girls like it.

oh thats quite ordinary compared to this.....

thx 4 posting, but this is definitely no tango: for she wears no Comme-il-fauts .. 8)

 

[Subliminal]

It's ok, it's only when you do 6 soltadas in one dance does it not count as tango anymore.

 

[bordertangoman]

I used to call that a vuelta, or spin. But the argentinians call that move simply soltada as well. And it isn´t difficult, and the girls like it.




thx 4 posting, but this is definitely no tango: for she wears no Comme-il-fauts .. 8)

I found her movement in flat shoes quite interesting..somehow more reflecting of her and more 'authentic'...if I had a partner with that much abundance of creativity I wouldnt worry if was tango or not.

 

[UKDancer]

How much can Argentine tango change, until it is no longer Argentine tango?

I know that this is a different take on your question, but I think that the answer is that tango stopped being Argentinian a very long time ago, but that doesn't stop it from being tango. And before anyone asks, I'm not making any comparison at all with the standardised BR tango, but talking about tango in the 'Argentine style'. It all but vanished, there, for decades following the end of the Golden Age, and while I have no idea of actual numbers, I would guess that there are dedicated tango dancers, worldwide, that outnumber those of BsAs 100:1 and probably much more than that.

Everything develops, everything changes (but not always for the better), and in a dance like tango, in particular, there IS no one who can claim to possess/control/direct its constant shifts in style and development.

Perhaps if there were, that would be the end of tango?

 

[bordertangoman]

I know that this is a different take on your question, but I think that the answer is that tango stopped being Argentinian a very long time ago, but that doesn't stop it from being tango. And before anyone asks, I'm not making any comparison at all with the standardised BR tango, but talking about tango in the 'Argentine style'. It all but vanished, there, for decades following the end of the Golden Age, and while I have no idea of actual numbers, I would guess that there are dedicated tango dancers, worldwide, that outnumber those of BsAs 100:1 and probably much more than that.

Everything develops, everything changes (but not always for the better), and in a dance like tango, in particular, there IS no one who can claim to possess/control/direct its constant shifts in style and development.

Perhaps if there were, that would be the end of tango?

there's nothing nuevo in tango
http://tangowithwings.blogspot.com/2008/07/nothing-nuevo-under-sun.html

 

[Peaches]

I know that this is a different take on your question, but I think that the answer is that tango stopped being Argentinian a very long time ago, but that doesn't stop it from being tango. And before anyone asks, I'm not making any comparison at all with the standardised BR tango, but talking about tango in the 'Argentine style'. It all but vanished, there, for decades following the end of the Golden Age, and while I have no idea of actual numbers, I would guess that there are dedicated tango dancers, worldwide, that outnumber those of BsAs 100:1 and probably much more than that.

Everything develops, everything changes (but not always for the better), and in a dance like tango, in particular, there IS no one who can claim to possess/control/direct its constant shifts in style and development.

Perhaps if there were, that would be the end of tango?

AMEN!

To me it's a question of form following function (Nuevo), or function following form (milonguero/salon/traditional). Do you allow your embrace and the shape of the dance come from the way you are trying to dance, using AT leading and following...or do you constrain your dancing in order to stay within the embrace? Shrug.