I came across a sweet lady at a milonga recently. She told me about her kids and I asked her if she ever teaches them tango. She replied, "they don't need to be taught, they already do it without instruction!" She continued by telling me that she listened to tango music throughout her pregnancy with her first child. After birth, she used to take her baby to afternoon milongas, and if the baby was crying, it'd immediately stop crying as soon as it could hear tango music!
Aahhh....
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Tango lullaby / Early education
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That's what I call proper education, huh? Out of joke, it's something really interesting... Is it just a fluke or does it happen with more women that dance through pregnancy?
Does the little kid dance as well?
Apparently it’s a very common thing. My first teacher (who is now mother of four) made the same experience with her children. Two of them were born before she started to tango. They are in their teens now and not interested in tango music whatsoever. But the youngsters (they are twins)have been completely into tango music from the very first moment on. She told me once, that while pregnant she always played “Desde el alma” whenever they’d been kicking her too hard.It was the most effective way to calm them down. She used to bring them to every afternoon milonga and to dance to their favourite music, holding them, rocking them gently into sleep. They are five years old by now, still very much around, and already very eager to tango on their own.:-)
These ones are probably a prime example of this tale. Guess who daddy is?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9_w8H0-qqw
Koolricky, you asked, "does the little kid dance as well?"
Well, I believe the lady said that both children do.
I can so see Desde El Alma being a lullaby... ahh...
A wonderful dancer from my local tango society makes her baby stop crying by dancing tango with the baby in her arms. The child is going to be raised on tango!
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