Therefore, the dance possesses a spatial rhythm, i.e it is an oscillation between tensions and contractions, linear and circular movements, short and long steps, stillness and motion. This spatial rhythm confers a dynamic to the dance. The dance thus acquires life for it breathes. In stillness, the sense of the intimate space reaches its maximum, while in motion the sense of the container space predominates. I now come to the concept of time.
Music exists in time.
There is a before and an after, a progression from an earlier to a later point. Because dancing is an independent art, it can exist without audible accompaniment. As far as Tango is concerned, however, the dance acquires meaning and comes alive when it is performed to musical time. As music is an organization of time, so is the dance an arrangement in time, which employs temporal rhythm. The dancer interprets the distance between notes, he deciphers their relations and translates them into spatial movement.