Is tango for old people?
Many/most young people have more energy than older people. When I listen the music (yeah, Argentine Tango) shift into high gear with a few bars where one of the instruments plays notes just about twice the speed as the others, and see a roomful of dancers continue dancing at the same slow speed as before that section of music started, I wonder if we are listening to the same music. And, many, many tangos kick into high gear close to the end of the song. When most dancers in a community get it into their heads that Argentine Tango is danced slowly and intensively, and that’s all they do… and they don’t pick up on changes in the music, well, they dance slowly and intensively ALL THE TIME. (Somewhat ironically, I’ve read the inclusion of the bandoneon was what slowed down tango back in the early 1900s. Now, it seems like the bandoneon is often the insturment of choice for these fast paced, swirly sounding sections.) So, the young and eneregtic crowd is attracted to the big energetic sty
