[Tango-L] The Truth About Tango Nuevo

[NANCY]

Oh, take a chill pill.  I did not use the words nuevo,
milonguero or crap in my post.  But your defensiveness
is telling.  Maybe my question should have been, if a
dancer is 'messing with' the other dancers, then how
do we get him to stop? And by the way - a milonguero,
by definition, would not do those annoying things.  A
dancer or a 'bailarin' as the Argentines say, might.


--- Noughts <damian.thompson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Really? So a slow milonguero doesn't do this? Or a
> milonguero that  
> doesnt follow 'the rules'?  Surely it comes back to
> the dancers  
> themselves!
> 
> Get off the 'nuevo dancers are crap' thought process
> and maybe as  
> David says, focus on 'crap dancers suck' rant... But
> who's to say who  
> is crap?
> 
> O dear, here come the 'tango nazi police' again
> cause I paused when I  
> felt pause, but you didn't... Sheesh, I must suck as
> a dancer then  
> hey....
> 
> Sent from my iPhone, from somewhere...
> 
> On 11/04/2009, at 5:51 AM, NANCY
> <ningle_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > This rant is not new.  This justification is not
> new.
> > Here is my question:  Who decides if you are
> "messing
> > with the other dancers or the line of dance"? It
> isn't
> > just physical contact that is bothersome.  The
> whole
> > rhythm of the pista can be thrown off by very slow
> > volcadas or high boleos.  I can always tell when
> there
> > is a thoughtless dancer behind me because my
> partner's
> > musicality is thrown off trying to protect me from
> > abrupt stops or backsteps or leader boleos.  And
> yet
> > TL is completely oblivious to what is going on
> behind
> > him.
> >
> >
> > --- David Thorn <thorn-inside at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> larrynla wrote:
> >>
> >> A lot of stuff.
> >>
> >> Bravo and thank you.
> >>
> >> [rant] If we are not messing with other dancers
> or
> >> the line of dance, etc., what is wrong if we
> express
> >> our feelings as we wish through our dance?  Is
> Tango
> >> an art form or is it merely a stilted, codified
> and
> >> over prescribed set of step patterns, as bad as
> the
> >> worst excesses that one might find in the
> ballroom
> >> world?  Does it diminish you to let me dance
> tango
> >> as I wish?  I think that it is the self appointed
> >> "purists" who fail to dance tango, and should
> rename
> >> their dance to "Codified Tango."  Larry and Rod
> both
> >> made the point that the by the time the second
> tango
> >> dancer hit the floor, tango had become "Nuevo"
> and
> >> it has remained so ever since.
> >>
> >> If you would like to copyright the term 'Tango',
> you
> >> are welcome to try.  In the meantime, the word,
> and
> >> the dance, belongs to the world. [/rant]
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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