[Tango-L] Nuevo lead and follow and repressed teaching

[Joe Grohens]

 > What people think of as "nuevo" isn't really entirely new. Perhaps  
we should some up with a term other than
 > "nuevo" like "post-nuevo" (sort of like modern architecture was in  
the 1940's and then came post-modern).

They movement vocabulary associated with tango nuevo dancing is not  
really new at all. The main thing that separates what people now are  
calling "nuevo" from what people are calling "traditional" is that  
more things are permitted in nuevo. Dress code, embrace code, and feet  
on the floor code are all subverted in tango nuevo.

As has been mentioned before many times, the main things that are  
transmitted by so-called "tango nuevo" teachers are not so much the  
figures as the teaching methods and approaches to practicing. ( I  
think one of the clearest posts on this ambiguous term called "tango  
nuevo" is by Tom Stermitz : http://pythia.uoregon.edu/~llynch/Tango-L/2005/msg00035.html 
  )

I agree that "tango nuevo" is a misleading name. For a descriptive  
purpose, I think it is more accurate to label  styles according to  
place (e.g., ballroom/salon, street/canyengue, club, suburban/orilla,  
west coast) or according to originator/propagator (Susana Miller,  
Fabian Salas).

To label types of dancing as the traditional and the new tends to be  
reductive and subjective.