Tango is about feeling and sensitivity, otherwise you are just doing gymnastics. You can do all the steps but it has to have the feeling and sensitivity of authentic tango.
Interpretation
Authentic tango goes beyond mere steps; it embodies emotion and sensitivity.
Carlos Gavito emphasizes that tango is not merely a sequence of movements; it is an art form that requires deep emotional connection and sensitivity. Without these elements, the dance becomes a mechanical display rather than an expression of true passion and connection between partners.
In practice
In a dance workshop, to inspire participants to connect emotionally, you could say this quote.
Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at the moment you engage them in the reality of the borders they cultivate, the space in the garden they occupy at any moment, they like in particular this, or they like in particular that.
Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and wept or rejoiced with the spirit of the songs. I found that where forces have been the same, whether people weave, build, pick cotton, or dig in the mine, they understand each other in the common language of work, suffering, and protest.
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.
I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.
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