[Tango-L] Nuevo Milonguero

[Huck Kennedy]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Ecsedy Áron <aron at milonga.hu> wrote:

> I believe that 'nuevo' became a term that doesn't describe a form of
> dancing. It doesn't really mean any type or style of dancing that could
> be identified without doubt just by looking.
>
> The few things that nuevo DOES mean is:
> - a structured way of building up your dancing (which rather a method of
> teaching of philosophy of learning) vs. building it up by imitation of
> sequences or moves only that was devised by the teacher (which probably
> never existed in a pure form in the first place)
> - a free, open way of thinking about tango as a dance, which means there
> is a POSSIBILITY of doing all moves possible by a couple in embrace to
> tango music vs. doing only a set of moves, form, or extent of moves and
> not doing others, as it is not in the tradition (of a certain teacher,
> style, area, community etc.)
> - goal in the structure of nuevo is to identify the simplest and
> smallest common technical elements that forms the basis of all and every
> tango style, that are intercompatible on a very wide domain of moves
> - another goal is to identify the ways to increase internal body
> awareness of these technical elements, to devise methods that make
> connection, communication between couple understandable for those who do
> not understand it yet
>
>
        What about cargo pants?  And you didn't say anything about having to
wear designer sneakers with suede glued to the bottoms of them.

Huck