[Tango-L] Nuevo Tango is not looking back

[Martin Waxman]

At 09:36 PM 5/10/2008, Mario wrote:
>We've heard it said that the Nuevo Tango is sucking in the youth
>   and soon they will convert to Salon Tango 
> once they get into the music of it.
>   Well, don't hold your breath. We know that Nuevo Tango can dance to most
>   any kind of music..Prediction: A new music will evolve that will Catapult
>   Nuevo Tango into it's own orbit...it is like 
> when the P.C. was waiting for the
>   killer application, in order to really take 
> off...and it got it.  Now, the dance is
>   here (thanks to the old) and it's waiting for 
> it's music.. you heard it here, first.

Mario,
You are, again, completely wrong.

I agree with Nina Pesochinsky:
 >"Nuevo Tango" can't dance anything or to anything.  It is
 >called "nuevo" because it does not fit the category of "dancing"
 >:).  I am sure that those that claim to be "tango nuevo" dancers are
 >deaf and don't want to be discovered.  But it is diffucult to hide
 >because they are usually outside of the music, regardless what the music is.

The problem, as I see and hear it, is that the 
"nuevo dancers" don't have a sense of musicality 
-- they don't hear the beat/el compás.
The music is not Tango; their "dance" is not Argentine Tango.

Marty Waxman