Tango y Cultura Popular ® English Edition TyCP Special | Page 17

impersonality are the common
currency in a society that
becomes more and more
dehumanizing, rushy and
competitive, all characteristic
symptoms of the incapacity
of younger generations
to fit in the status quo or
feel comfortable within the
predominant culture. The
youth of today do not feel at
home. They’re alienated, like
most of us.
Communication Era?
Loneliness Empire, rather say.
Luckily, as the old milongueros
say: “Tango waits for you after
your thirties”... though we
see an increasing number of
younger people interested in
Tango who visit the milongas.
unprepared and fascinate
the habitué. It is there where
one discovers unrevealed
vibrations and silently dances
along with the breathing
sounds. It is there where all
the fluttering butterflies that
perch in the stomach come
from. In this way, it ends up
being the best place to rest, to
find siege and contention. The
embrace is the true contact,
that obliges the members of a
couple to get involved in it and
become one”.
Ana María Navés: Desde el
alma. Editorial Dunken 2007.
“Unlike other dances, where
couple members barely
link up with each other,
Tango demands to grab
Tango culture represents these one another, in such way it
days a counter-culture. Not
shows sensuality, in schemed
only because of its musical
shifts, but with a margin to
structure, extremely different
improvisation. A man and a
from the fashion ones. Not
woman, alone and united, in
only because of its lyrics full
integrated and dissociated
of truth and beauty. Also,
movements at the same time,
and specifically, because
move tight and concentrated.
it permits to recover the
They create a nucleus, without
embrace, the contact, the
talking, so as not to get
body communication with
distracted. The bodies are
the other, and to relate to
shut to any interference of the
the environment. Because
surrounding world”
it allows us to join its music
Sergio Pujol: Historia del baile.
and poetry, and recognize
Emecé Editores 1999.
ourselves in them. Because
it includes and promotes the
“Young people notice
dialogue between the bodies
something’s going on around
and souls throughout each
Tango. When they start
set, and the actual chat, once
dancing it, they recover the
music is over.
meaning of the hug between
a man and a woman. Because
Here are some opinions to this to dance -and I don’t mean
respect:
plainly steps and figures, but
to feelings- is a wonderful
“Such bodily and spiritual
communion, that nothing has
sensations flow with the
to do with sexuality, but with
embrace, that dazzles the
something deeper, essential,
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