Natural vs. Mechanical Tango
Why learning tango milonguero requires changing mental images
The current taxonomy for tango: salon style tango (open embrace) vs. tango milonguero (close embrace) is not useful
It’s more useful to categorise tango as natural vs. mechanical.
To learn mechanical tango you need mechanical movements learned by demonstration and rote repetition, and technique correction with a lot of explanation.
To learn natural tango …
