[Tango-L] tango history and schizophrenia

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Aron wrote:

<<Just because they do not have a "master" or that they don't take lessons
directly, it does not mean that they are not copying elements, moves,
style, technique from others. In BsAs many dancers don't even know how
to spell nuevo, but that doesn't mean they don't USE it's benefits (and
of course most of them will never admit that there is any connection -
probably they don't even know or understand, because they can't care
less about exact classification).>>

Aron, that is your assumption only. A little more research into tango history 
will say otherwise. I think he was being ironic...or should have been. I 
doubt very seriously that El Chino, Petroleo, Virulazo or any of those older 
masters learned much from Gustavo Naveira and others like him. If anything, it is 
the exact opposite. Many of these older dancers were at least as inventive and 
acrobatic when they were young, but have distilled their movements into 
simpler elegant figures that are much more difficult than they appear. Don't confuse 
pyrotechnics for quality and refinement.
Part of the reason so-called "nuevo tango" came about was because many of the 
then younger dancers like Naveira had rejected the tango of their parent's 
generation for rock music. They had considered it old fashioned and outdated and 
it had practically disappeared from their world.   But when the tango craze 
was re-ignited around 1984-85, chiefly by Miguel Zotto (who had always admired 
and emulated those same old masters), they decide to capitalize on the 
new-found interest. But they had no roots in the tradition and instead interpreted it 
with the new "rock" sensibility, and were affected by non-tango influences 
and the music of Piazzolla, who openly admitted that he was more interested in 
tango's relationship to jazz and classical music and was not interested in 
carrying on the dance tradition. 

Cheers,
Charles


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