[Tango-L] what is nuevo

[Victor Bennetts]

Martin, can't see your clips right now, but I never set myself up to pass judgement on people like these as is pretty clear from my original post. I was not criticising C and G N, just contrasting the way they dance with something else pretty raw and organic I personally saw in BsAs. Those famous guys are great and it is precisely their greatness that to my mind means they don't qualify for the sort of nuevo experience I am talking about. OK, that is a bit controversial, but it comes back to what I personally saw and am trying (probably pretty imperfectly) to describe.

Yes we owe a great debt to C, GN et al as they and their friends probably invented the nuevo genre (I don't know), but it is a measure of their success that whatever they do quickly becomes mainstream now, or at least as much of it as us mere mortals are able to poorly copy. What I am talking about as my own nuevo inspiration is a willingness to break any and all rules within the constraints of complete mastery of the tango basics and come up with something totally individual as a result. I cant do it, but seemingly there are a lot of young dancers in BsAs who can do that. Get ten to fifteen of these guys (and I mean this term to include the fantastic followers) in a room and you see moves that I have never seen in any video but are still unmistakably tango. Also stuff doesn't work, but that is ok, it's about experimentation and pushing the boundaries.

You are never going to see this in a performance because by definition performances need to be polished and controlled. These young guys are controlled to a certain extent, but also a bit wild. Maybe they wear their hats backwards :-). I guess you don't have to be young, but it probably helps ;-).

Victor Bennetts

> Nussbaum, Martin wrote
Victor, I am not sure what you mean by calling chicho and gustavo too
"polished", unless that means they dance very well.  The example you
showed from practica x was, in comparison,  like robotic stick figures
without any soul.  Before you go calling Chicho too "old" for nuevo,  I
think you should look at these two gems. One is Poema, which is a tune I
believe you like, the other Darienzo, both done wonderfully by Chicho,
and show two sides of his style.

Poema, Canaro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGZv6rSRvTo

El Flete, Darienzo,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjRflYZfuvY

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