The video production

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.
The final video consists of several takes in the model and with small sequences of video with ‘real’ human dancers to establish and maintain the reference to tango and tango dance as the whole video is focused on.

Creation of experience
When you are teaching for instance in the Argentine tango the teacher gets very aware of every single movement. The weight on the left foot, the turning of the upper body, the walking forward, stop...
In the same way the model-dancer that manages the video camera becomes very aware of the dance as a flow and how he can transform the movement of the real body into dance in the universe of the model and the video recording.
The purpose of the educator is to teach other people specific step sequences, rhythm, musicality, posture... while the model-dancer is the one that learns and realises. It is not the aim of this project to end up as an instructional video. As a project of realisation it is focused on how the tango can be seen from the inside and clarify intimacy, immersion and contact.