[Tango-L] Interview: Chicho on tango nuevo, style, new music, and the current direction of tango

[Trini y Sean (PATangoS)]

Thank you, Joe, for posting this.  This is precisely what I've been looking for.  An acknowledgement by a "nuevo" teacher that tango shouldn't be "anything goes" as it evolves.  That there's an essence to tango, or else the dance becomes something else.

Trini de Pittsburgh


--- On Wed, 11/18/09, Joe Grohens <joe.grohens at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Joe Grohens <joe.grohens at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Tango-L] Interview: Chicho on tango nuevo, style, new music, and the current direction of tango
> To: tango-L at mit.edu
> Cc: "Joe Grohens" <joe.grohens at gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 8:37 PM
> For full interview, see: http://atdrc.com/default.asp?TextDisplay=1&Display=18
> 
> Excerpts:
> 

> Interviewer: What do you think about the direction the
> tango is  
> beginning to take, socially and artistically?
> 
> Chicho:  I think it is a very critical moment, there
> are many new  
> young people who are beginning to dance today and if we as
> teachers  
> can’t transmit what was taught to us as the essence of
> tango when we  
> began, the tango will be lost, because the essence will be
> lost, and  
> therefore losing its foundations. The most important
> element is to  
> remain keep the tanguero essence alive, the style doesn’t
> matter, but  
> that the people are really dancing the tango.  Today
> the road is  
> confusing, it’s in this space where or it either takes a
> turn towards  
> modern dance or it continues being tango.  Today
> people are dancing  
> tango, but they are not living the tanguero essence, they
> don’t love  
> the tango.
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