You can’t say that someone is a good dancer if he/she can’t feel it. Yes, the ability to interpret the rhythm is, as well, the core of the tango musicality. You can take away all of the melodies, the harmonies, forget about the keys and don’t worry about scales and what you have left is still undeniably music I might be a little bit biased, but I believe that the rhythm is the most important, basic, fundamental aspect of music. Let me begin this section with a quote from a cognitive neuroscientist Jessica Grahn, who’s field of interest is the connection between the brain and the music. And then, one must also take into account the more complicated levels of melody and the sentiment. The beat is important, but recognizing the measures will help you become even better dancer. If you have problem to finish the dance on the finishing beat, this is most certainly a sign that you have to pay more attention to musicality. If you are a beginner, or even an advanced dancer who never thought about working on his/her musicality, this is the right time. That is because the music from the Golden Age was created together with the dance, they are the two sides of the same thing. And then I discovered that it is much easier to connect to the music from the Golden Age than to electro-tango or non-tango music.
#Define musicality in dance how to#
I understood that learning the steps was just the question of time and practice – what bothered me was how to connect that to the music. When I first started learning tango this was my biggest problem. I also need to mention that there is a slight difference between how the musicality in tango is perceived by men and women, having in mind that they are focused on different things during the dance. I tried to simplify the language and the explanations, so even beginners and people with no musical background can understand. Let’s now focus on the four levels in which tango dancers connect to the music. To be honest, I strongly believe it goes even beyond the music itself and touches the core of who the dancers are as human beings… but that’s another topic. Dancing is’t just mechanically performing step after step, sequence after sequence – it goes far beyond that. A dancer can’t be considered a good dancer if what s/he does is not in some way connected to the music. One of the most important aspects of every dance is the musicality.
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