[Tango-L] Posting & open discussion on Tango-
Chris, UK
tl2 at chrisjj.com
Wed Feb 27 07:31:00 EST 2008
> Originally, nuevo tango was something very exciting. We all did it
> and worked like demons. And loved it. Now it is just a lot of bad
> dancing (with a few exceptions).
Nuevo dancing was only ever a lot of bad dancing with a few exceptions.
What's different now is that people are less excited by bad dancing.
>From the deck at Walzerlinksgestrickt last Friday I watched one of the few
couples who are still trying to do this stuff in the crowded Berlin
milongas. Seeing how the regular dancers formed a protective exclusion
zone around them.
Exclusion...
What's eliminating nuevo dancing is the simple fact that it is not social.
It is anti-social. Hereabouts it now lives only in the artificial world of
the workshops that teach it and the show demos a.k.a. commercials of the
step pedlars trying to make a living from them.
--
Chris
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