[Tango-L] Videos and criticism, the right arm lead

[Joe Grohens]

Sergio writes

> he calls his video, "Having fun with milonga candombera", as far as  
> I know nobody danced that way till recently when some pertinent  
> music appeared or reappeared and people started to "re-invent" the  
> milonga candombera as a new stile of dancing milonga. These facts,  
> "having fun with" and the inexistence of this style till recently  
> gives the dancer a lot of latitude with respect to artistic  
> interpretation of the music.
Since this is a new style of dancing milonga, I wonder if it is recent  
enough that we can trace its origins.

I wonder who coined the term "milonga candombera". And who, if anyone,  
teaches or hands down this style to others?

I wonder where Jean-Pierre learned to dance this way, or if it is his  
own invention that he calls by a name that "seems to fit."

How do names for tango "styles" arise and become attached to dance  
forms? How do these "styles" begin to harden into a codified  
recognizable form, each with their own techniques and rules about what  
is acceptable?

Several years ago some people on the tango-l were talking about  
"candombe-milongas", and I didn't have any idea what they were talking  
about. Then I found music such as "Azabache", "Siga El Baile", "La  
Rumbita Candombe", "Carnivalito" ... etc. I assume that this type of  
music is what people mean by "candombe-milongas". But this music is,  
to my way of thinking, older. From the 1940s, I think.

Is "milonga candombera" the way of dancing associated with candombe- 
milongas?

If so, when did the recent revival of dancing to this music start?

-Joe