[Tango-L] No Nuevo (as a style) - according to the Naveiras

[Valerie Dark]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Alexis Cousein <al at sgi.com> wrote:
> The only way in which "styles" would really become mechanisms for
> speciation would be forced segregation, i.e. apartheid. I know some
> people actually advocate this (possibly in an attempt to keep their
> "race" "pure"), but I have just as much sympathy for apartheid as a
> system in tango as I had for it in other matters.

I love it. Tango apartheid! That's hysterical. Alexis is making a good
point, demonstrating just how absurd extremes can be. You know, if you
really care what everybody else is doing all the time, there's just no
end to how annoying the human race can be.

Those milongas de barrio that we were talking about before can be so
much fun. Sometimes you can't even really call them milongas, if by
milonga you mean specifically a tango party. They'll have some tango,
some cumbia, some swing. They have a ball. I walked out of those
places thinking, "these people really know how to party." They dance
all sorts of dances in all sorts of ways. (Incidentally, the swing you
see them dancing in Argentina is frequently not "pure" swing because
it isn't the "real" swing we originated here in the U.S. Fortunately,
nobody has told them they're not supposed to be enjoying themselves so
darn much.)

So, if a true Tango Purist wanted to segregate the styles by a policy
of tango apartheid, does that mean that he would have to create
separate districts (like bantustans) for specific tango styles?
Milongastans! Or maybe you could have designated groups of songs for
just certain kinds of dancers. Tandastans!

Valerie

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