[Tango-L] Don't blame your follower ...keys & Clasico vs. Nuevo

[Tango For Her]

Nuevo tango is cool.  I, myself, found incredible success in soft tango.  So, I try to pass along as much as I can.  I observed that teachers that go out and find complicated patterns have that added component that I believe it takes to keep the longterm attention of leaders.  I didn't say it was bad.  I was just commenting on what I see as the trend in the United States.  
   
  Nuevo tango is one hell of alot of fun!!!
   
  And, by the way, when you include the exchange of lead and follow in Nuevo tango, then, you fall much more into the realm of mastering followers' technique than mastering patterns!  And, THAT, in my book, is something that really benefits a leader!

doug at swingfusion.com wrote:
  Intermediate dancers want to learn tricks and patterns. (This is
only my observation. This is a genaralization. This is not meant to offend
anyone!) 

Social Argentine Tango is about connection with partner and music and
the emotion that is aroused in that connection. That is its unique beauty.
However, outside Argentina dancers see tango as steps. Somebody missed the
train.

I am not offended :-). But I did interpret these, and other comments
occasionally seen on the list, as implying that a fair portion of what
happens in the Nuevo dance is a trick or pattern.
I don't see a Volcada, for example as being any more of a step or trick or
pattern than, say, an ocho cortada. Both are led, you can stop either one
at any point and unwind the move, modify what happens next etc. Some leads
and some follows may interpret either as a step or pattern, but that is just
because they are not leading or following.
I, and most that I know who dance Nuevo moves, try to use the "forbidden
list" musically, in concert with partner and music and emotions. I think
that you do us a disservice by claiming that just because the steps are not
danced by the portenos, they are not musical, etc.
I also believe that, for many although perhaps not you, an intellectual
connection to your partner and the music can have all the emotional depth,
or more, of a non-intellectual connection.

D.



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