[Tango-L] "Nuevo" dancing to Di Sarli

[Sergio Vandekier]

Bettina says:

"1 - I wholeheartedly agree - first of all - there is noone here in BsASthat "ratifies", second, Tango is - like all in Life - subject toconstant evoluton, third, Tango IS not just Argentine, but danced allover the world - like it or not - agree or not -it is reality -
 
***Should I say that Viennese Waltz is not Austrian because it is danced all over the world?  Or that Pizza is not Italian because there is a pizzeria in every corner in Buenos Aires?
 
"2 - why does everything have to be "classifed" ? For what? For who? Forwhat purpose?"
 
*** I can think of many reasons. Not long ago when people ignored that several tango styles existed, they would bring instructors from Argentina that taught different styles, contradicting each other, teaching different techniques for leading and following,different tango moves, greatly confusing the students.  
 
There were long discussions about what "real" A.Tango was. The milongueros argued that the embrace is always closed. The Traditional tango dancers that it could be both closed and open, etc.
 
Brian says:
 
"3 - "Buenos Aires Tango" is the common frame of reference, becauseIMHO it's Buenos Aires where ALL the tango pots (dance, music, tradition,innovation) are boiling the hottest."
 
*** No doubt whatsoever!!!
 
Tango, the same as Rembetika around Piraeus (Greece), Fado in Portugal, the blues in the US south were musical types and dances that developed in a very special and unique milieus, that were amazingly similar. 
 
They began on the margins of society, the periphery of cities (most other dances developed in rural areas), creation of displaced peoples, the underworld of migrant, poor workers, living on the borderline of illegality, drugs, gambling, prostitution. 
 
Men and women that frequently scorned straight society, its laws and conventions. 
 
  Each one of those dances and all the others are a reflection of the culture that originated them. All of them were initially considered proper of low class people, without any artistic value.
Later on they became accepted by the general society and became very popular

TAngo has a special situation due to its universal appeal, but then so do  the US music and dance and perhaps also in some degree all the ballroom dances of the American Continent. (Samba, Salsa, Mambo, Cumbia,Merengue, Cha-Cha, bolero, Rumba).
 
Best regards, Sergio
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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