[Tango-L] N.U.E.V.O.

[jb34528@att.net]

-------------- Original message from Jack Dylan <jackdylan007 at yahoo.com>: -------
Jack Dylan wrote 
>If this ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS9sMTtozZI) isn't 'Nuevo' can somebody please tell >me what it is. I'm confused. 
>Jack 
It is a beautiful tango - of "young people". (With the greatest respect for Sergio’s opinion, who so often had to step in to restore sanity to the debates on this list.)  I do not like the music though. Saw Chicho a number of times using the same style shown on the video to interpret music of DiSarli or Ricardo Tanturi, for example. Of course, Chicho blends in beautifully in a traditional, “feet on the floor at all times”, milonga. His advice to us was “don’t do this (re: a move in the video) unless you find a space and then resume the close embrace dance”. It strikes me as a little insane that people are being segregated to dance “nuevo” to the non-traditional music – re: “alternative milonga”. Since I am often asked for it when I DJ, I can an only speculate that the younger generation finds such music appealing because of their disco, swing and salsa experiences. The “nuevo” dancers complained about on this list are generally well behaved and polite people who, for example, abruptly stop to let you go first through the door. It is up to the milonga organizer who needs to stop acting as a potted plant and help such dancers to translate their good manners into the milonga environment. I.e., not to inform them that the “nuevo” is forbidden but that they MUST make sure that any expansive moves do not interfere with or even scare other dancers. I.e., it’s OK only if they find a space.
I wrote “nuevo” in quotation marks because the dance on the video is not “nuevo”, it is the nuevo enabled tango.
Jan