Coming into the Tango class, I have had experience latin dancing, (bachata, salsa, merengue, and many other dances), and only a little bit of Tango. Thus far, I've enjoyed myself. In the previous years that I took a tango lesson, I said that I want to get better. With a busy schedule, and studying abroad, getting better at tango seemed to be just words that I repeated every time I attended.
With this class, I am excited to have a steady schedule in which I get to practice tango. It has been an interesting experience learning about tango in both a lecture and in practice. I feel that I'm getting better rounded in learning about the dance as opposed to simply taking tango lessons.
One vision that I have with this dance is a fusion type dance. Although we have learned about traditionalists and their view on "nuevo tango", I find that the dances that utilize the practices of multiple bases edgy, and exciting. I remember watching the movie Take the lead with Antonio Banderas my freshman year. In it, a group of students from an at risk school who had knowledge of hip hop dancing were taught Tango. In the end, the students had to make tango fit them, and there was an interesting fusion of hip hop and tango.
Despite what traditionalists may say, I feel that the beauty of dance, is that an individual has the ability to express themselves in whatever medium that they are dancing, (that being hip hop, tango, salsa etc). In the end, any dance is an expression of ones feelings. With Tango, this notion is a little more complex, as it is a dance of two bodies, with one mind. Thus, the dance is a little bit more limited in this context, but there is still room for self expression.
I'm interested in exploring this concept.
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