First Pass at Performing Tango - Choreographic Structure
It really is an 8 second world. If you read literature written in the 19th century, the sentences tend to be longer and they read slower. The thoughts take time to evolve and are frequently more convoluted. If you watch great movies that were produced 4 or 5 decades ago, and you time the cuts, which we have done, the time between cuts is consistently longer than it is today (they change today roughly every 8 seconds).
- Today, to hold an audience, you really need very rapid changes of tone, of timing, of mood.
- Props can help, but understand that the audience will get used to the props very rapidly.
- Changes of levels help: you have the air, dancing standing on the floor, or being very close to the floor.
- But, whatever you're doing, you need to change to something that feels radically different much sooner than seems sensible.
- Artist Name:
- Astor Piazzolla
- Song Title:
- Adiós Nonino
- Album Title:
- RCA Victor 100 Años - Astor Piazzolla
- Artist Website:
- http://www.piazzolla.org
(Paraphrased from wikipedia): Piazzolla's tango was distinct from the traditional tango in its incorporation of elements of jazz, its use of extended harmonies and dissonance, its use of counterpoint, and its ventures into extended compositional forms. As Argentine psychoanalyst Carlos Kuri has pointed out, Piazzolla's fusion of tango with this wide range of other recognizable Western musical elements was so successful that it produced a new individual style transcending these influences.
