Any of you out there who are into dancing this? I've danced both iindependently for a while, but just this month went to the Houston Fusion Exchange where we put them together (along with lindy, which I dance little of, and other swing.) Anyway, I was finding some very interesting things happening. Since both tango and blues are COMPLETELY lead-follow dances, it's very easy use both vocabularies interchangeably as the music calls for. I LOVE the creative spirit of this dance play. Though Austin has some great dance scenes, I don't know a single tango dance here who integrates from other genres, and though there are blues dancers in town who have a bit of tango, none are really solid, traditional tango dancers. I'm wondering many things, two of which are: what are your experiences fusing tango and blues? do you live somewhere where more than 2 other people choose to dance/play like this?
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Re: Tango blues fusion
Wed, January 16, 2008 - 6:11 PMI've been told there are actual tango-blues fusion events in the Bay Area, but then, we have every kind of fusion you can think of around here! -
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Re: Tango blues fusion
Wed, January 16, 2008 - 10:52 PMYep. I do that occasionally at the blues event at studio Gracia Friday nights. That's not specifically "Fusion" but a few tangueros show up. There are some fusion events as well.
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Re: Tango blues fusion
Fri, January 18, 2008 - 2:37 AMI have never heard of this.
Around here it's good old Argentino all the way :-)
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Re: Tango blues fusion
Mon, January 21, 2008 - 4:49 PMI'm just starting to do some blues dancing after focusing on tango for a year. Here in Portland, there was a fusion night for just such a thing and I believe some folks are trying to revive it. There wasn’t enough of an established base of dancers proficient with both forms to make it viable. I agree that they are both lead-follow dances, but it isn't easy to interchange the vocabulary. Blues is more a "one spot on the dance floor type of dance" whereas tango is a walking one. -
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Re: Tango blues fusion
Mon, January 21, 2008 - 5:45 PMTango doesn't have to walk at all. You can dance for hours with just the basic pattern , molinetes, ochos, ganchos and boleos. It needn't travel anywhere.
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