[Tango-L] Social Tango, pre 1994

[Chris, UK]

> Certainly the mid-90s were very creative period for the "FaGuChi"  
> crowd. They deserve credit for systematizing a lot of tango concepts,
>...
> http://www.totango.net/salas2.html

Señor Salas must die with embarrassment every time he's reminded of that 
interview...

Such as his account of he and Gustavo worked for years on e.g. 
'systematising' the forward, backward and side steps... by relabelling them 
"front", "back" and "open". To arrive at the 'conerstone concept' of there 
being just these three positions in tango.

Then going on to invent the name 'cross system'... for a walk that has no 
crossing and is not a system.

Quite how a whole generation of teachers mistook this nonsense for a System 
of Tango Nuevo will forever remain one of tango's great mysteries ;)

Chris