You
can do a parallel with the hip hop. It is the same, these are urban dances
made up of a mix of populations. And then the Argentines appropriated it and it became their dance.
Then the tango is an improvisation, so it is a permanent improvisation,
and it also behaves, which is surprising for people who dance in these other dances for a long time.
What is the tango?
The tango is essentially commanded by the guide of the dancer,
and the dancer must be perpetually listening to this guide,
but at the same time the dancer must also be listening to his dancer.
At the same time, he has managed his guide, the dancers, the movement in the ball,
a lot of things, and at the same time the two dancers must remain connected,
this is the term we use in the tango, connected, that is to say they must dance together.
It is the couple who dances, and not each dancer separately.
We are both listening to each other when we dance.
Yes, it is a permanent exchange, and the dancer is listening to the music, of course,
but she must also ask herself the question, what does my dancer listen to in music?
Each step in the tango is guided.
The whole of these steps can form what we call figures.
They are composed of steps that can be interrupted at any time,
following the necessity of the ball, following the music, and we go on to other things.
She never knows what will ask her dancer in the next step.
So she is waiting on one foot, she waits to know what her dancer will ask her for the next step.
The dancer still has some freedom.
For example during the break, she can take her time,
she has the condition to stay in the music.
She must also be in the listening to the music,
because she can master the rhythm of a step at a time of break.
She is the one who decides when she will be able to make a footstep or a fantasy.
When you are in the dance, the rest does not exist anymore.
I am used to dancing with my eyes closed and I am in the dance.
I think there is not too many terms.
I am in the music, I am with my partner, I am in the tango.
When I do a part, when I talk, when I put myself in a certain position,
with a certain music, it is what follows.
Sometimes I have surprises.
That is why it is very pleasant to dance together,
but it is also very pleasant to share the tango with dancers that we do not know.
When we listen to the tango, it is even more necessary.
I can dance very well with a person who has very little technique,
because he has goals, and it is wonderful, it happens very well,
because indeed there is this fusion that operates.
And for a dancer, it is pleasant to fall in love with a dancer who listens to the music
and who listens to his dancer.
It is essential in the tango, it is not all the purity that is around.
After, it is true that it is more beautiful to look at,
that it is pleasant to place well, all these small fantasies.
But the essential is the connection between the two dancers
and the connection of the couple with the music.
I think that this is what gives pleasure in the tango.
Thank you very much.
