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Tango to Evora

    We all have our talents… everyone has the things they can do easily… and much better than most others.  I suppose as we go through life we try to develop those traits and talents to a marketable level…. and if we’re lucky we can do for a living the things that will provide an enjoyable aspect to life.

 

   There are also those who can develop their talents for purely artistic purposes.  Some of them can have the proper attitude to deal with the marketing of their artistic skills….

 

  Dance… it’s such a strange amalgam of movements both natural and not….. they say when a child is learning to speak, it will babble all the possible combinations of sounds that the human voice can produce…. in time they learn the language of their people…. and they have difficulty picking up an accent in a foreign language…. some sounds will not be properly reproduced, even though they were able to make that sound as a child.

 

   Perhaps it is something like that with dance…. when a child, most kids display an amazing combination of moves they can perform… dazzling acrobatics as a child…. long hard stretches…. flips etc. But later… after the schooling… many of these movements will not be replicated.  They will settle into a staid life of manual labor or pencil pushing.

 

   When I see good dancers, I could cry at my own inept clumsiness. Yes, I can place hundred pound stones into a  wall and build a terrace holding back tons of soil…. but I can’t do the beautiful moves of the Tango…. and it brings tears of happiness to my eyes to see the beautiful photos of the dancers in the music video featuring the beautiful notes of Loreena McKennitt.

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