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The Experience of Relationship in the Argentine Tango Greta Polo Columbia College - Chicago Columbia College Chicago Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago Creative Arts Therapies Theses Thesis & Capstone Collection 8-2010 The pS ace Between Us: The Experience of Relationship in the Argentine Tango Greta Polo Columbia College - Chicago Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/theses_dmt Part of the Dance Movement Therapy Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Polo, Greta, "The pS ace Between Us: The Experience of Relationship in the Argentine Tango" (2010). Creative Arts Therapies Theses. Paper 14. This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Thesis & Capstone Collection at Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. It has been accepted for inclusion in Creative Arts Therapies Theses by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. THE SPACE BETWEEN US: THE EXPERIENCE OF RELATIONSHIP IN THE ARGENTINE TANGO A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Dance/Movement Therapy & Counseling Department Columbia College Chicago In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Arts Degree in Dance/Movement Therapy & Counseling by Greta Polo August 2010 The Space Between Us: The Experience of Relationship in the Argentine Tango An Artistic Inquiry by Greta Polo Style and content approved by Laura Allen, MA, BC-DMT, LPC Andrea Brown, MA, BC-DMT, NCC, LCPC Laura Downey, MA, R-DMT, LPC, GLCMA Lenore Hervey, PhD, BC-DMT, NCC, REAT Susan Imus, MA, BC-DMT, LCPC, GLCMA Cathy Pidek, MA, R-DMT, GLCMA Shannon Lengerich, MA, BC-DMT, LCPC, GLCMA Jessica Young, MA, BC-DMT, LCPC, GLCMA Accepted by _____________________________________________________________________ Jessica Young, MA, BC-DMT, LCPC, GLCMA Date Thesis Advisor _____________________________________________________________________ Lenore Hervey, PhD, BC-DMT, NCC, REAT Date Research Coordinator _____________________________________________________________________ Susan Imus, MA, BC-DMT, LCPC, GLCMA Date Chair, Dance/Movement Therapy & Counseling Department Abstract The purpose of this thesis project was to gain an in-depth understanding of the various dimensions of relationship experienced by Argentine tango dancers. The project’s underlying aim was to serve as a springboard for developing future applications of relationally oriented tango work for singles, couples, and groups as a form of dance/movement therapy. The participants consisted of three male tango “leaders” and three female “followers” of various experience levels. The research was conducted by video recording the participants dancing tango with one another and then interviewing them separately, using a customized video for each as a prompt to foster discussion of the participants’ somatic and psychological experiences of the dance relationships. The data was collected, analyzed, and examined through phenomenological research methods. Artistic inquiry was used to express the lived experience of the participants by presenting the findings in part through a multimedia performance piece that contained portions of the video and audio data and represented the research process and results through dance performance. i Acknowledgments Special thanks to everyone who has generously supported me and helped make this project a reality, especially but not exclusively: Somer Surgit, for being a wonderful tango teacher and for donating his time and talent to my performance; Alison Hamilton and Netza Roldan, for offering their time and donating their space at the American Tango Institute; Jorge Niedas, for introducing me to tango and for donating his café space for the research filming; Barry Chiu and my mom, for their invaluable help at the performance; Daniel Goede, for donating his time to film the performance; Matt Jencik, for donating his time to beautifully photograph the performance; Serena Brommel, my talented editor; Lenore Hervey and Jessica Young, for guiding my research process; and, last but not least, my research participants, whose courage, enthusiasm, and authenticity made this project what it is. ii Table of Contents Abstract ............................................................................................................................... i Acknowledgments .............................................................................................................. ii Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 1 Literature Review .............................................................................................................. 5 Argentine Tango: Origins and Framework ........................................................... 5 The Tangos ................................................................................................ 5 Origins ....................................................................................................... 6 Framework ................................................................................................. 7 The Lure ................................................................................................................ 8 Intimacy ..................................................................................................... 8 Vitality ....................................................................................................... 9 Spirituality ................................................................................................. 9 Masculinity/Femininity ............................................................................ 10 The Tango Connection ......................................................................................... 12 The Sensual Touch Experience ................................................................ 12 Tango as a Safe Container ....................................................................... 15 Relational Hot Spots ................................................................................ 16 Tango Therapy in Research and Practice ............................................................ 18 Research ................................................................................................... 18 Practice .................................................................................................... 20 Methods ........................................................................................................................... 25 Methodology ....................................................................................................... 25 iii Phenomenology ....................................................................................... 25 Artistic Inquiry ........................................................................................ 26 Procedure ............................................................................................................. 27 Cultural Considerations ........................................................................... 27 Recruitment ............................................................................................. 28 Dance Video Session ............................................................................... 30 Video-cued Interview .............................................................................. 31 Data Analysis ....................................................................................................... 32 Video Data ............................................................................................... 32 Audio Data ............................................................................................... 33 Audio Presentation .................................................................................. 35 Video Presentation ................................................................................... 36 Dance Choreography ............................................................................... 36 Confidentiality and Ethical Concerns .................................................................. 36 Results ............................................................................................................................. 41 Summary of Results ............................................................................................ 41 Act I: Self ................................................................................................ 41 Act II: Other ............................................................................................ 42 Act III: Relationship ................................................................................ 43 Act IV: Tango .......................................................................................... 45 Discussion ........................................................................................................................ 46 Participants’ Responses to the Study.................................................................... 46 Responses from Attendees of the Research Performance ................................... 48 iv Application to the Field of DMT ......................................................................... 50 References ........................................................................................................................ 55 Appendix A: Definition of Terms ...................................................................................
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