A forgotten interview
Dug up an old magazineLa Milonga Argentina tonight. I picked it up in BAires during my second trip in 2008 . At that issue, there was an interview of Sebastian Arce.
Here is an excerpt from the interview that I like to share:
Q. You dance with pauses, whereas many kids of your age don’t do that.
S.
It has to do with what we were saying before about introspection. It’s when you know that what you’re doing has an expressive purpose and comes from a feeling, you pause to seek that feeling and from that feeling comes the movement. But when one believes that it’s only movement, then one isn’t bothered about seeking what it is that it provokes, lo hace de manera intelectual. Yo no les creo a los phibes hoy!
He is touring in the US this month: this week in San Francisco. Next week in Baltimore.
Here is a recent performance of him and Mariana that I like very much, to a song that I love: Fresedo con Ricardo Ruiz “Buscándote” 1941
Dancing the pauses, dancing the silence as Gavito put it, is what makes a dance exceptionally beautiful and connected. What a fabulous post…