Sunday 7 June 2009

The Dancing Flower does Di Sarli

In case you were taking this tango lark a bit too seriously, the Dancing Flower is here to help. Today, it interprets a track sometimes used for beginners' classes - Viviani, from the Carlos di Sarli album Instrumental vol. 2.



This is definitely going to be a series.

11 comments:

ghost said...

Lol, encore, More!

Milonga, Milonga, Milonga....


PS Reminds me a lot of the dancers in the JA dvd ;o)

Henry (@knowtango.com) said...

haha, that's great! Sometimes how I feel like dancing ...

I second the vote for a milonga. I'm curious about the flower's musicality ;)

Simba said...

Hahaha! Awesome!

David Bailey said...

Oooh, I like it!

You should put these vids on the TPG group for a proper critique...

msHedgehog said...

Go right ahead and critique it here! :oD

ghost said...

0-15 sec A strong dramtic beginning starting with a good simple walk

16-23 Good use of a pause and some simple adornments to reflect the music

Another clean sharp pause at 30 secs

I like the way the flower breaks up the next part 31-39 into a series of steps rather one continuous walk

40-49 again a bold decision to use large steps for a dramatic walk.

Then into a brief giro followed by even more walking (you can tell it's your flower!)

Again skillful use of timing at 1 min - 1.13 to selectively pick out accents.


(Well you asked :P )

David Bailey said...

Brilliant review, Ghost :)

Seriously, that flower shows far more musicality than the average AT dancer.

I reckon this should be used in teaching - "Do you have better musicality than the flower?" :)

maya said...

Love it !!!! I wonder what the flower would do with D'Arienzo and Piazzolla... Please more...

msHedgehog said...

The flower says thanks for all your kind feedback.

D'Arienzo's in the queue, along with some nice milongas - I think I'm going to use one by Donato. The only thing I've got by Piazzolla is Libertango and it's not his orchestra - but it seems worth a try. I think the flower will be appearing weekly, for a while. Pugliese's in there too.

Captain Jep said...

The flower returns!

Im not sure it picks up the staccato of La Flete as well as it picks up the lyrical honey tones of a Di Sarli piece. Nevertheless it showed virtuouso musicality in the middle section, and even managed to finish its rendition with a well timed bow.

Bravo! (Oink oink now time I think for a refreshing G&T... )

msHedgehog said...

eek - I left it 'processing' while I went out to lunch and haven't blogged it yet!