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As if the required waltz sequence steps got stuck in there because they had to, but....OK, got that out of the way, now back to our sort-of slummy street tango. (Costumes, music, or choreography, take your pick.)
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it's not tango though
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"Street tango" is my ballroom dance teacher's dismissive term for any inauthentic Spanish-style stomping around, whether it's an attempt to portray tango, paso doble, flamenco, etc etc. This had moments of that. Hopefully it will improve as the season goes on.it's not tango though
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Never heard that term before but I can say I don't like it lol"Street tango" is my ballroom dance teacher's dismissive term for any inauthentic Spanish-style stomping around, whether it's an attempt to portray tango, paso doble, flamenco, etc etc. This had moments of that. Hopefully it will improve as the season goes on.
Very dismissive and since tango is from a completely different part of the world compared to the other dances, it makes the expression quite pejorative in a nationalistic way. But, I guess I'm too sensitive
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It's his own term. It's his job to teach any dance properly, to international competitive standard, and he doesn't like seeing it imitated. In the USA they have both Standard and Smooth dance, which are roughly the equivalent of set-pattern dances and FD on the ice. The rest of the world just does Standard, and he's not a fan of competitions on TV where celebrities do Smooth programs with pros.
He absolutely hated "Strictly Ballroom".
(On my ballroom forum, there's a sub-forum for tango fanatics who dance nothing but that one dance -- which is not considered a Latin dance, it's grouped with waltz, foxtrot, etc. The current active thread is "Has Buenos Aires lost its tango soul?")
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