И снова о любимом. Вот уже год перевожу...

And again about the beloved. For the past year, I have been translating a book about which I have already spoken: about tango. It’s going difficult, because, firstly, I’m either lazy or working, and secondly, in order to translate something well, you need to feel it well. And I still dance so-so-so, the assimilation of the new in the body, and even more so - its awareness - take place slowly. But here is one of the first provisions of the book, that the main thing in tango does not occur where the legs - and everything moves, takes off beautifully and sticks in and out, but right at the top - where there are arms, a hug - and nothing would seem , not happening. This is where it actually unfolds, the most important thing is DRAMA. Because tango is always a drama. I mean music now, because in the last thematic post the concept was already outlined that tango as a dance is a physical expression, the embodiment in the bodies of music dancers. So, the drama can be love, but not necessarily - it can existential, such as who I am, where I go and where I go in this world, it happens - insidious enemies banged someone, or just a person who was bored in the homeland. But something like this inside pinched - and it turned out music with verses. And others, too, had something similar pinched - and they began to listen and dance, and so it remained for centuries. For reference - tango, although it most often has well-known authors, art in the sense of the people, that the "golden fund" of hundreds or other popular tunes, on which they mostly dance, crystallized in 50 - 70 years from the moment they - and thousands of others - were written. That is, what the people clung to - that’s left.
Back to the drama. The book mentions that in ancient times people, when they first saw how Argentines dance, were left under the impression that “the girl is half asleep,” and “the couple is floating above the floor.” How this is achieved technically is just the subject of analysis in the book, but here the visual impression, it seems to me, is perfectly demonstrated by the following video. Where, oddly enough, the legs fall into the frame quite a bit, but it is clearly visible what is happening, in fact, in a hug. Well and a bonus for those who have read - in the comment I will put the translation of the text. Because one of the mysterious questions for me - how do most people (and this is your tango dance all over the world, from Vladivostok to Dusseldorf) dance, not understanding what they are singing about?