When you are dancing Argentine tango it is really difficult to retrieve the dance in the drawings and paintings as you for instance appear when you Google the words ‘argentine tango painting’. They typically present it like this. As a dancer you experience the Argentine tango as intimacy, immersion and contact – feelings and experiences that are difficult to find in these very stereotyped images...
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Dancing in the miniature
The concept of dancing in the miniature is based on two premises. The first fundamental premise was to ‘see’ from the dancers’ point-of-view. For example by mounting a small video camera on the head of the leader in the dance and thus follow the movements of the body of the dancers by recording and afterwards seeing how the dancing couple experience the site and the room.
The fundament for the dance in the model is the old tango tune by Donato La Melodía del Corazóne. The mood of the melody was taken over and into the cardboard model. Inside the circle I took a painting and transformed that painting into some kind of wallpaper recreating the mood of the music and to this scenography is added light from twenty small optical fibre cables to dim or to enhance the lighting.
