[Tango-L] Bs As dancers are not so hot (larrynla@juno.com)

[Nina Pesochinsky]

It doesn't really matter what people are 
teaching.  It is much more important what people 
are learning.  If the teacher is teaching really 
good stuff, but the people are trapped in their 
bodies and can't make it move (meaning they are 
not controlling their bodies but their bodies are 
controlling them), nothing will help other than 
some coordination training away from tango.  Soccer might be good.

What makes someone a good dancer?  The right 
attitude!  Foreigners don't have it. (Sorry, 
folks...)  Yup, black and white 
generalization.  Exceptions are not important for 
this discussion.The simplre reason that the 
foreigners don't have the right attitude (in 
their own land or in BsAs) is that they have 
different expectations of their tango experience 
than the Argentines do.  That's why many 
Argentine dancers that don't have as a refined 
technique as some foregners do, are much better dancers.

Fourteen years ago, tango nuevo was called 
nuevo.  So what could be another alternative name 
for "tango nuevo" that is not "nuevo" 
anymore?  When does the term "nuevo" expire?  It 
is not quite old yet, or antique, just a little 
worn :)  Maybe now, after so many years, it 
should be called "tango nuevo polvoriento".  That 
would free up the term "tango nuevo" for something really new.

Nina

At 10:23 PM 11/6/2008, marquerito tjanos wrote:
>interesting observation. i just want to add my 
>10cents worth. lots of young people in BsAs are 
>drawn to tango these days. as larry has 
>observed, though some of them are drawn to tango 
>nuevo music, a lot of them are tangoing to the 
>golden oldies. from my observation in Practica X 
>and La Viruta, which have a huge number (more 
>than 90% i would say) of young people, they 
>enjoy the golden age tango very much. the ways 
>they dance their tango are very varied too. some 
>open embrace, some close embrace, some 
>milonguero style. but if you look at the large 
>successful schools, e.g. Academia at El Beso, 
>Escuela at Galeria Pacifico, most of the 
>teachers are just teaching good solid tango, 
>good technique, good postures etc. and aurora 
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