探戈的哲学

探戈是个复杂而深奥的艺术形式。它对不同的人意味着不同的东西。对男人来说它是带领，对女人来说是跟随，对初学者是步伐，对大师是音乐的诠释和感受，对舞棍是个人娱乐，对演员是娱乐观众的表演，对恋人是爱心的表达，对显摆者是出风头，对作曲家是音乐，对思想家是哲理，对外国人它只是个舞蹈，而对阿根廷人，它是一种文化和生活方式......不同的人有不同的哲学，所以他们跳舞也不尽相同。

探戈哲学所涉及的问题导致了探戈中不同的流派。以下所列举的是一部分这一类的问题。每个问题都可能有多种答案。舞者往往各持己见。有些见解可能较“正确”或“不正确”。其他则可能只是个人喜好，无所谓对错。但是综合起来，不同的见解和喜好决定了人们舞蹈和行为的模式，产生出不同的宗派。对这些问题的探讨和交流不仅可以帮助人们提高舞艺，而且还能促进彼此之间的理解，容忍和借鉴，并且，我希望，通过全面了解探戈的不同层面而使我们融会贯通，取长补短。

1. 什么是探戈？

2. 人们为什么跳探戈？

3. 在探戈中男人从女人那里想找到什么？

4. 在探戈中女人从男人那里想找到什么？  

5. 探戈中的性别角色

6. 男子气与女人味

7. 大男子主义与女权主义

8. 女权主义对探戈的影响

9. 性亲密与非性亲密

10. 探戈中的舞伴关系与现实生活中的人际关系

11. 娱乐与显摆

12. 灵与肉

13. 精致与粗犷

14. 运动型与感觉型

15. 外观与感觉

16. 闭式拥抱与开式拥抱

17. 社交探戈与表演探戈

18. 探戈音乐与另类音乐

19. 年龄对舞蹈风格的影响

20. 不同文化对探戈的影响

21. 带领与跟随

22. 独白与对话

23. 主动跟随与被动跟随

24. 合一与分离

25. 独角戏与同步化

26. 简单与花哨

27. 松散与紧凑

28. 快速与慢速

29. 节奏与旋律

30. 单调与变化

31. 浪漫主义与体操运动

32. 即兴舞蹈与编排表演

33. 简单与复杂

34. 优美与舒适

35. 内在美与外在美

36. 改革与传统

37. 创造性与标准化

38. 自由表达与舞会规则

39. 作为舞蹈的探戈与作为文化的探戈

40. 点头邀请与口头邀请

41. 布宜诺斯艾利斯与国际探戈

42. 精英与群体

43. 阳春白雪与下里巴人

Tango as a Philosophy

Tango is a complex and deep art form. It implies different things to different people. To a man, it’s leading. To a woman, it’s following. To a beginner, it’s steps. To a master, it’s feelings and interpretations of the music. To a milonguero, it’s an activity for personal pleasure. To a stage dancer, it’s a performance for entertaining an audience. To a lover, it's devotion. To a peacock, it's showoff. To a musician, it’s a music genre. To a thinker, it’s a philosophy. To a foreigner, it’s a dance. To Argentineans, it’s a culture and lifestyle... We all dance differently for who we are and what philosophy we have.

Tango philosophy involves issues that make us different. The following is an incomplete list of such issues. Each may have many answers. Every dancer entitles his/her own opinions. Some may be more or less “correct” or “incorrect”. Others may just be personal preferences and neither right nor wrong. But collectively these opinions and preferences define the way each of us dances and behaves, and divide us into different groups. Studying and exchanging opinions on these issues may not only help us better our own dance, but also help us understand, tolerate, and learn from each other, and, hopefully, achieve mastery through a comprehensive grasp of all aspects of tango.

1. What is tango?
2. Why do we dance tango?
3. What do men want from women in tango?
4. What do women want from men in tango?
5. The gender roles in tango
6. Masculinity vs. femininity
7. Machismo vs. feminism
8. Feminism and its impact on tango
9. Sexual intimacy vs. non-sexual intimacy
10. Tango partnership vs. real-life partnership between the opposite sexes
11. Pleasure vs. showoff
12. Spirituality vs. carnality
13. Refinement vs. rawness
14. Movement orientation vs. feeling orientation
15. Look vs. feeling
16. Close embrace vs. open embrace
17. Social tango vs. performance tango
18. Classic tango music vs. alternative music
19. Age and styles
20. Cultural bias and impacts
21. Lead vs. follow
22. Dictation vs. conversation
23. Active follow vs. passive follow
24. Oneness vs. separation 
25. Individual performance vs. synchronization
26. Simple movement vs. fancy movement
27. Compact movement vs. wide movement
28. Fast movement vs. slow movement
29. Monotony vs. alterations
30. Rhythm vs. melody
31. Romanticism vs. gymnastics
32. Improvisation vs. choreography
33. Elegance vs. comfort
34. Inner beauty vs. outer beauty
35. Simplicity vs. complexity
36. Innovation vs. tradition
37. Creativeness vs. standardization
38. Free expression vs. milonga code
39. Tango as a dance vs. tango as a culture
40. Cabeseo vs. verbal invitation
41. Buenos Aires vs. international
42. Elitism vs. community
43. Highbrowism vs. populism