Can Another Body Be Seen as an Extension of Your Own?
Surprising results show the fluidity of the "body schema"
By Julie Sedivy on January 12, 2016
The relationship between a person’s notion of self-hood and the openness of their body schema to another human being hints that perhaps it’s no coincidence that tango, which takes entanglement to sublime heights, originated in a culture that orients toward interdependence.
They want $500 for me to post an excerpt for up to 12 months.
I heard tango music emanating from the boob tube a couple of days ago, and jumped up to see what it was - an Acura Commercial. When I Google'd it, I discovered it was Bajofondo's "Pa' Bailar".
Here is the Acura ZDX commercial:
Here is the full/official Bajofondo "Pa' Bailar" music video:
It's a pretty cool, and actually very hot music video. Very well done. Anyone know who the milonguero is? I'll try to do some checking and find out more about the cast of dancers. Let me know if any of you guys know anything - just leave a comment. (Thanks in advance.)
Coincidentally, Bajofondo is playing at Auditorium Shores in Austin tomorrow night - part of SXSW (South by Southwest Music & Film Festival) - or as the locals call it "South By". It's one of the few free shows during SXSW. Auditorium Shores is a vast open space next to the Colorado River (Lady Bird Lake aka Town Lake). I imagine it will accommodate 50,000 plus people - perhaps even 100k. Traffic and such will be a monumental clusterfuck. I know I shouldn't be so negative - I should look at it as a great opportunity to partake of some of the live music this town ("The Live Music Capital of the World") has to offer. I do love that about Austin, and do partake on an almost weekly basis, but I hate the traffic and parking issues.
I'll admit I'm an old fart. Okay, not that old, but sometimes I feel like an old fart. The young bucks and bambies can go at it all night long. I don't know if I can muster enough energy to deal with the hordes and the traffic and the parking - especially on a week/work night.
I would rather sleep and rest up for the festival next week. Actually, come to think of it, there is no rest for the weary. I'll be at sweetpiehoneybunchdarlin'heart's ThirdCoast SXSW Showcase gig.
Bajofondo live in Austin. A whole slew of Austin tango folks dancing, I think. I hope. It will be good large scale exposure and tango PR for the Austin tango community.
In the words of Martha Stewart - "It's a good thing."
Tango on UNESCO World Heritage List By BARBARA SURK Associated Press Writer Published: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 9:43 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 9:43 a.m.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Tango was declared part of the world's cultural heritage by the United Nations on Wednesday and granted the international seal of approval Argentina and Uruguay have long sought for the dramatic dance and its sensual moves.
The 24 members of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee of Intangible Heritage granted the tango dance and its music protected cultural status at its meeting in Abu Dhabi.
The designation may make Argentina and Uruguay, which both claim to be tango's birthplace, eligible to receive financial assistance from a specialized fund for safeguarding cultural traditions. It will also help both governments justify using public funds to preserve their most famous export after to beef.
"We are very proud," Hernan Lombardi, the minister of culture of the autonomous city of Buenos Aires told the Associated Press on the phone from the Emirates' capital. "We hope this decision will help spread the tradition of tango all over the world."
Tango emerged as a dance style in the late 1800s in the suburbs of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, Uruguay. It is popular in Europe, Japan and the United States. The recent spike in tango's popularity throughout the world is in part attributed to the Broadway hit "Forever Tango" and TV's "Dancing With the Stars."
"Tango is a feeling that can be danced, and that feeling of course is passion," Lombardi told the AP on Wednesday.
The popular image - willowy, spike-heeled women spinning, kicking and lunging across the floor in the arms of tuxedo-clad men - is known as show tango. The kind danced in milongas, or tango dance halls, is more waltzlike, but equally sensual.
Argentina and Uruguay have long been embroiled in a clash over the birthplace of the great tango crooner Carlos Gardel. They kicked aside their differences last year in a joint effort to persuade UNESCO to list tango among UNESCO's traditions worth safeguarding for humanity.
India's Vedic chanting and Japan's Kabuki theater are among the dozens of U.N. protected traditions.
A good find from thedirtroadcowgirl...way back on 12/11/2008...I said it then that I didn't have time to watch the entire thing, then saved it as a draft and never went back and published it...
This time I did watch it in its entirety...it's Popeye and cast dancing in a "Dance Contest"...the dancing looks suspiciously like tango...although the music is most definitely not tango...watch until the very end and see Popeye and Brutus dancing together, and Popeye back boleos Brutus to the head...
Good stuff...for a hot, lazy, nonproductive Sunday afternoon.
This is my own made up headline, but it just dawned on me that it's very likely that Sandy, after her first round of tango lessons, figured out that it would not be so easy to portray Argentine tango as possibly first thought. Not that I don't think she can learn and learn well, but as we all know, it takes time. It's been about two years since it first hit the news that Sandra Bullock had bought the movie rights to the book. That's just about right. Perhaps production can start now.
Perhaps production has already started. Has anyone seen film crews taking over milonga venues in Buenos Aires?
I check with Google once in a while to see if there is any news on the movie - production-wise. I'm interested in this one because so many movies have come out that do not portray Argentine tango accurately. With this one, perhaps there is a chance to show the world - authentically - what our Argentine Tango is all about.
I'm concerned that the producers (Sandy and friends) may eschew Buenos Aires and its milongas as the actual filming locations due to costs, or logistics or whatever. To me, the movie can't be all that it can be if filmed elsewhere. They will need lots of good tango dancers as extras - the only place to find them is in Buenos Aires.
I'm also concerned that due to song rights issues, they may not use guardia vieja music, which will also affect the outcome, the feel, the everything of the movie. My guess is even if song rights are not an issue, the powers that be will say that the movie going public would not like (or 'get') traditional tango music - and try to come up with something else - thereby missing the mark.
Sad.
Sandy, if you are reading this, please shoot the film in Buenos Aires in the actual milongas that Marina Palmer danced at. Please use original guardia vieja music exclusively in the film. Please do the right thing and do the thing right. Please please purty please.
Why, oh why, does tango always seem to get the most twisted press in the national/world media? Why do the producers and their bosses seem to cater to the kitsch and the ratings and not the reality? When was the last time any of us saw national media coverage of Argentine Tango in its purest form - a social milonga? It could be in Buenos Aires, it could be a milonga in New York City, or L.A. or Portland or wherever.
Anything, but not this. Horrific is the only word I can think of.
By the way, thanks to Cherie for the first post on the subject - back on June 11.
Not bad press per se, but good press for bad tango. Brought to our attention by Steve Brown of Dallas on Tango-L. This clip is from the Today Show segment "Where in the world is Matt Lauer" - shot just under the Obelisk on Avenida Nuevo de Julio in Buenos Aires.
Is even bad press good press? Is even national media exposure showing bad stage/performance/pro tango a bad thing? Sensational press driving/striving for higher ratings uses and abuses sensational tango.
The misrepresentations, and misconceptions, continue.
I just ran across this. www.TangoMag.com "Tango - Smart Talk about Love"
I don't like it. I just don't like it. These people using the word Tango. Capitalizing on the word Tango. Capitalizing on the dance Tango. Capitalizing on our Tango. Capitalizing as in making dinero off of it.
Especially when it's tabloid shit like this:
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"Documentary on Heather Mill's Love Live"... "Grocery Store Romance Gets Shelved"...
What is the world coming to? What is the west coming to? What is the U.S. coming to?
Note that I don't want to imply the guy plagiarized or anything...I actually don't think it's a big deal...I just think it's fun to watch it unfold...
I'm content with the "a lack of independent enterprise" comment by one of the editors at the New York Times - perfectly perfect language I would expect a senior editor to come up with...
