[Tango-L] How tango evolves

[Vince Bagusauskas]

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To: Vince Bagusauskas
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Subject: Re: [Tango-L] How tango evolves

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Vince Bagusauskas <vytis at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> I would add:
>
> Changes in culture in Argentina itself

>Please be specific. Tango social dance culture has had incredibly
consistency over time.


Disagree. Fact the culture of Argentina has changed, therefore that will
have an influence on how tango is danced.



> Tango spreading across the world to non-Argentinean cultures

>Affects part of Argentine tango culture that caters to tourists, much
less so that part of tango culture that attracts porten~os.

Not all tango dancers are tourists and/or have been to BA.  Therefore how
tango is danced in that culture is a reflection of that culture. 


> A younger audience who don't dance to grandmas music (a quote from real
> Argentineans)

>How many of these are there? Maybe the ones who don't dance tango,


I have spoken to young Argentininas who have danced tango since they are
babies (virtually) and go to many milongas in BA and see how the youngers
dance, dress and behave. 


>instead dance salsa. Even nuevo dancers in or from Buenos Aires dance
mostly to traditional (30s-50s) tango music.

But not in all cultures!  See above.


> -whether reinterpretation of the classics
> -nuevo

>Danced mainly in Villa Malcolm, Practica X.

Your point?  This would never have been done in the Golden Age.  So the
influence of this will have an impact.


> Women wanting to lead
> Gay tango

>Yes, in gay milongas (La Marshal the only one to persist). Same sex
partners or sex reversed partners are almost non-existent in Buenos
Aires outside gay milongas.

So?   Happens a lot in other cultures.


>Most of these changes in tango are occurring outside Argentina, where
dancers modify tango to their own cultural norms. At some point of
change, it is no longer Argentine tango.


Your desire is that real Argentinian Tango must be rooted in the Golden Age.
The point of this post is has tango evolved?