It is undeniable that embrace closely is never a Chinese culture. We seldom embrace each other in every day's life, unlike many westerners do. But we also can't deny that that embrace is one of the most important elements in tango. If you want to have a fuller picture of tango, I think everyone, no matter what style you like, should at least have a taste of it and experience different styles of close embrace, and have a basic understanding of how the embrace works. Nowadays many people adore some masters like Pablo and Dana or Gaston and Mariela and want to dance like them. If you know them well and observe carefully how they dance, you will find out the way they dance is different with some younger dancers who have never had traditional dance training. These masters have a sense of unspeakable elegance underneath their footwork and technique, that they benefit from the so called "boring and old-fashioned" way of dance.

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- Emily Luk, Milonga del Corazon

Last update: 05-08-2007 13:35