[Tango-L] Tango Diversity under one big tent: Nuevo & milonguerohappy together?

[Nina Pesochinsky]

Good point, John.  But Ballroom is actually a well-defined discipline  
of dance with incredibly rigorous training.

How about calling "nuevo" Fake Tango? Or Pretend Tango? Or  
Wanna-be-tango?  The criteria would be no embrace, no musicality  
(apparent deafness), off axis movements, no self-awareness, a serious  
face and an attitude of self-importance.  All of these conditions must  
be present in order to meet the criteria.

This, of course, would be for the purpose of diagnosis by others.  The  
problem with dancers that pursue fake tango is that THEY ACTUALLY LIKE  
THE WAY THEY DANCE.  Until that changes, nothing else will.

Best,

Nina



Quoting "johnofbristol at tiscali.co.uk" <johnofbristol at tiscali.co.uk>:

> There is a lot of sense in what Ron says. After all, you never see
> anyone dancing ballroom tango at a milonga. At least I never have.
> Perhaps it is time to rename nueveo "Argentine Ballroom Tango" to go
> alongside International Ballroom and American Ballroom, and to have
> special events devoted to it. Milonguero could be called "Classical
> Argentine Tango", on the lines of "classical ballet". Then everybody
> would know what to expect.
>
> John Ward
> Bristol, UK
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