Tangoed Up in Blues, January Tango Fusion Demo

Tango Fusion demo at Tangoed Up in Blues, Jan 6th, 2007. Dancers are Mihai and Mirabai

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Film & Animation

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• Tango
• Fusion
• TUB
• Tangoed

[firephreek]

I can assure you, where there is imbalance, it is his lead, not hers. She is nothing but fantastic as a follow, one of my absolute favorites without a doubt!

[fictionreader]

@firephreek actually, imbalance is a combination of both dancers. the counterbalance formed between them is what keeps the connection. So an imbalance is just a happenstance where they lose that counterbalance. Sure you can claim it's the guy's fault as a courtesy/chivalry, but imbalance is not purely the lead's fault. she leans on him as much as he does to her.

[firephreek]

@fictionreader It would be more correct to say imbalance "can" be a combination of both dancers. But, as I said before, "I can assure you, where there is imbalance, it is his lead, not hers."

You are welcome to chide the professional for the amateurs mistake in this video, if that's what you wish. But by and large, where she might have thrown him off balance is very much an exception. I've had the opportunity to dance with both, intimately, so I am familiar with their characteristics.

[KarismaMoonbeam]

What is this song i adore it!

[firephreek]

@fictionreader It might be blues posture 'as you imagine it', but it is not Blues posture. Blues is _Not_ a "dance completely about counterbalance and weight shift." That is as far from a description of blues as me to the moon. All dances employ counter balance just as they all employ weight shifts. Perhaps the only dance in my experience that doesn't use counter balance is Country two step.

Maybe.

And I'm confused: Are you meaning to say that Argentine Tango is not Tango?

[fictionreader]

@PChanmisao i agree. that's what a blues fusion is.

[fictionreader]

By the way. what is the song in this video?

[fictionreader]

@sirprenante I don't see it at all. maybe he himself if he was standing alone doing that, he would be off balance, but the counterbalance between him and her, however, makes the difference. That's why people don't dance alone. It doesn't work. But the balance between the two dancers allows for the appearance of "faulty" positions.

[fictionreader]

@sirprenante the "hunched form" you refer to is a bit of the posture of blues as I imagine it, but I don't see a hunchback form at all in this dance. And it is in no way a struggle for them to stay upright. Blues is a dance completely about counterbalance and weight shift. The fusion with tango allows for more outgoing moves. I honestly don't know enough about tango but generally a blues tango fusion is a mixture of argentine tango and blues, not tango, which is what I'd say they're doing. 

[sirprenante]

@fictionreader... example...1;05 where he's bent double, off-center, with one foot in the air to retain his balance...elegant like a brick.

[sirprenante]

@fictionreader "This dance"? What exactly is this dance according to you ? They claim it as tango fusion...personally i think that it has lost all the elegance of tango, with a posture that proclaims a lack of equilibre, and produces the "hunchbacked" form which all tango dancers try to avoid (not to mention their osteopaths) Personally i see nothing "smooth" about a struggle to stay upright.

[fictionreader]

@sirprenante sure he seems off balance, but the way this dance works is a counter-balance, so if that counterbalance isn't there then it isn't as smooth as it could be.