tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8391293127288856260.post120171964564456463..comments2023-09-27T12:44:03.592+01:00Comments on MsHedgehog: Dance is not necessarily ArtmsHedgehoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05719152265628932122noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8391293127288856260.post-85058248104074645002014-09-16T22:35:37.432+01:002014-09-16T22:35:37.432+01:00I am getting to this very late, but I do like your...I am getting to this very late, but I do like your ideas here. Nothing needs to be challenged or changed. However, there is a paradox to this whole question, and paradoxes usually are markers for something profound (in physics just as much as with theology). So let me just suggest, that your post helps people understand the art of not dancing artistically. :-) That is truly a wonderful paradox. However, there are those who claim that they are not artists, but then do a performance that is a waltz, a tango and a milonga and then do an encore! People clap! And the "non-performers" bow. Many in the audience would rather be dancing. One was okay, but 3 or four? In this often repeated situation, I wonder if the paradox has just turned into a simple denial that outsider anthropologist studying this "tribe" would immediately identify for what it is: Art. Perhaps it is not art or a performance. You'll have to judge for yourself: Not adoring friends or students but the non-performers uploaded it onto YouTube for you and the world to see how dance can be done in such a way that it is not a performance! :-)Tango Therapisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12548118004604256736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8391293127288856260.post-43961444222042125042011-12-05T23:30:36.199+00:002011-12-05T23:30:36.199+00:00@Tango in el Cielo - yes, that was his solution to...@Tango in el Cielo - yes, that was his solution to the problem, and people who solve the problem successfully (in my opinion) all do something very similar to that.msHedgehoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05719152265628932122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8391293127288856260.post-61520875365452432882011-12-03T01:08:43.969+00:002011-12-03T01:08:43.969+00:00Yes I quite agree - dance is not necessarily art. ...Yes I quite agree - dance is not necessarily art. <br />But is this is "a problem that non-art dancers have to solve when they are asked to give a demonstration"? My dear friend Ricardo Vidort, a much-admired milonguero, did not regard himself as an artist. He was often asked to give a demonstration, and gladly did so on most occasions (when he liked the person who asked). He never asked for money. He just got up and danced EXACTLY the same as he danced in the milonga or at home. Nothing more. He danced for himself and his partner not for the audience. So for him it was not a problem, or, if it was, it was not his problem and he didn't have to solve it. (Perhaps it's only a problem that has to be solved if you're trying to make money out of performing or trying to use performances as a way of attracting new students to make money from.)Tango en el Cielonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8391293127288856260.post-72346661634310498632011-11-30T17:32:36.896+00:002011-11-30T17:32:36.896+00:00@Anonymous; thank you, you are very kind.@Anonymous; thank you, you are very kind.msHedgehoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05719152265628932122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8391293127288856260.post-35248148197882273582011-11-30T16:24:34.657+00:002011-11-30T16:24:34.657+00:00you are such a joy to read - clear, clean, crisp p...you are such a joy to read - clear, clean, crisp prose. A breath of fresh air, a calm refuge from torrents of verbosityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com