[Tango-L] The Truth About Tango Nuevo

[Noughts]

actually, the undeertone of your post is enough and don't bullshit  
yourself.  I have seen milongueros do much worse. besides, if you are  
dancing with your eyes closed - doubt you have seen half of what I  
have...

Sent from my iPhone, from somewhere...

On 11/04/2009, at 11:16 PM, NANCY <ningle_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> 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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