Dance with yourself

Happy Valentine’s Day Giselle Minoli! #Dance  the night away

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Those legs!

Thanks for the clarification Edward Morbius. Still I am grateful to have it pointed out because I made every effort to tag everyone (person) affiliated with video but forget to tag the source. It’s important, but it’s particularly important with creative work and, IMO, exceedingly important with dance, which seems to be a dying art form if you don’t live in major cities where you can either see it in person or where you can have access to affordable tickets.

Frankly, I’m surprised Vimeo hasn’t yanked it, as they have done many times when I have posted about dance, which is their right, but which infuriates me…because it becomes about the proprietary nature of the video itself, making precious the site on which it is exposed, but denying the spreading of the word, as it were, about an art form that far too many people are simply deprived of.

It is so expensive to run a dance company and to fund dancers that I envision a day, sadly, where the only place that anyone will know there is such a thing as dance, unless one happens to have access to the few remaining great dance companies, is to see videos on line.

Even more infuriating is the fact that there are full-length videos available, but most of them are not shown even on YouTube.

One can become educated about virtually everything else online when it comes to the arts, but this is not true about dance, an art form that I was introduced to when I was six years old and which I cannot imagine living without. #Anschluss . Hmmmm…..

Good morning, Giselle!

Thank you very much for posting this.

There is something original and beautiful in this Tango.

Not only in the way the dancer has a perfect control of her body, but because she uses that self-discipline to make her movements free and towards unexpected directions…

I bet she has a Classic Ballet training ( I did it when I was a child) and that she is using it to dance Tango…

This self-discipline has a soul inside: it is not a robot dancing…

And I wonder why we don’t teach the Metaphysical notion of movement visualizing it…well, I know the answer: subjects are huge, and I almost have no time to teach the entire program…

Hi Ana Cristina Simões Vilar many, many former ballerinas take up ballroom dancing. They add a “flair” to it that I am not crazy about in many ways. But the Tango requires a certain sensibility. I was happy to discover this video because I’ve been thinking of getting a portable ballet bar to keep limber. I had never thought of practicing Tango moves until I saw this, so I’m inspired.

Baba Doodlius Ah, Yes…Mr. Billy Idol. Children dance with themselves all the time. Why not adults? 😉

Giselle Minoli – as a former ballet dancer, I had to unlearn the stiff-like posturing of ballet. I had to turn into a ragdoll cat, relax, forget exaggerated positions, etc and become an instrument of the dance. In ballroom, and in Argentine Tango especially, it clicked. I had senior citizen partners work with me with patience of kings and I learned the connection and balance and ebb and flow and wave and romance and being one with your partner, one body moving with many emotions. It’s my favorite dance. Honestly, there’s no looking back at ballet now! But… Sadly, I’m in nowhere, USA, so no opportunities to dance, especially homeless. So I listen to music and mark and muscle memory it through vivid wide-awake yet dreamlike imaginary states. It’s as close as I can come to dancing it right now.

I think when I finally sell the books I’m writing and the medical designs I’m working on… I’ll meet you in Argentina for an intensive study fun dance, food, language, culture vacation! ;-)

Amazing!!!!