10tango.com published an interview with Melina Plebs about improvisation vs. choreography. Melina is ” the great renovator of the tango dance scene alongisde Miguel Angel Zotto”, very experienced in creating tango choreographies. She describes a phenomenon she calls “crystallization”:
What usually happens is that when something new crops up, it soon crystallizes and you can see clones repeating the same sequences, dancing couples who copy each other, perhaps to different music but with the same forms.
Too bad tango is often taught in figures and steps — which are meaningless without context — which only (?) exists in the present as part of improvisation. Not?
What place should figures have in teaching tango?
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