When
we talk about tango we want often to define the true tango, what tango
really is and most of the time I agree with the descriptions! Still, I would prefer to present my experience of tango as a
path the dancers are advancing on, a mental landscape I am passing through.
When I started out the tango
WAS about steps and ochos and turns and figures for me. Fast music urged me to
move fast forward and a slow song gave me more calm steps. To manage
the difficult figures made the joy burst hilariously out and l was
looking for more challenges! My dance was external and the music
expression was external! Everything in my dance was easily visible to
others!
One
day my partner was rising tall at the end of a musical phrase and I
felt that it was the most beautiful thing ever! For me, this was the
first time I clearly experienced the external movement and its internal
equivalent. During the external years, I had developed the internal
equivalents for tango and an ability to recognize them within me. Now we
could just stand there with small movements released by the music and
enjoy a tanda! The best ever! :)
Today I can fall off to a
totally external dance during a fast milonga but a heavy Pugliese could
tease me down to the most internal dance instead!
Tango keeps
surprising me! The sources of joy during the first years were different
compared to the delights now. The scenery of today will change and the
path will run through different landscapes during the coming years and I am
curious!
It is wise to find pleasure from every period of tango, from every section of your path!
Paris 2011
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