Re: [TANGO-L] Tango, Baile Nuestro

[Ricardo Tanturi <tanturi999 @YAHOO.COM>]

I'd like to add a quick footnote - I don't disagree
with Frank on this post and I think it clarifies his
position, but....

I think changing the word "stagnant" to "static"
points
to a flaw I think is _sometimes_ IMPLICIT in the
arguments of _some_ of the anti-traditionalists:
they point that if something is not changing, it is
"static" (that is a tautology), but then they go on to
use the word "stagnant" as a synonym for "static".
That is sneaking in a value judgement, because
"stagnant" usually carries the additional sense of
"staleness".       End of rant.

"Ricardo"

--- "Frank G. Williams" <frankw @MAIL.AHC.UMN.EDU>
wrote:
> Tango Guy & friends,
>
> Hold the phone.
>
> > To call Ballroom Tango or any other Ballroom
> > dance stagnant is an insult to all those who have
> learned to do it well.
>
> Question:  Does the fact that - let me think of a
> good example - Bruck's
> Scottish Fantasy (for violin) hasn't changed much
> lately make all those who
> master it's nuances 'stagnant' musicians???  No way.
>  Of course, learning is
> exciting and worthwhile and represents change in an
> individual.  But I'm
> sticking to my opinion. I was talking about dances,
> not dancERS.  However,
> if it will make you feel better you may change
> 'stagnant' to 'static'.
>
> What if people decided that, considering Beethoven's
> genius, no more trios
> needed to be written after the Archduke.  That music
> is just as great today
> as in 1811.  "We like it.  We're done.  We'll just
> keep playing that one
> better and better but if we get tired of it we'll
> throw in a little Hayden."
> Silly, obviously.  Had dancers done that then we
> might have never known the
> thrill of the Macarena.
>
> >  Ballroom dancers are not stagnant people because
> there is so much to
> learn.
>
> Amigo, I quite agree.  Their dances, on the other
> hand...
>
> Frank - Mpls.


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