[Tango-L] Observations on "Nuevo"

[romerob@telusplanet.net]

Shahrukh wrote among other things:
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ALTERNATIVE TANGO [SIC] MUSIC: From the "one can dance anything to anything" 
school, an attempt to dance Tango to anything EXCEPT Tango music (techno or 
otherwise). Sorry, but this is an entirely gringo phenomenon. To the extent 
that it exists in Argentina at all, it's to cater to the Tango tourists 
who "learned" to expect this. I call them "excessively long cortinas," and they 
are most appropriate for doing what one does during cortinas (anything except 
dance Tango).
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Humm, I do not think so.

Here is the introductory section of a tango dance book from 1916 by Nicanor 
Lima published in Buenos Aires, "Metodo Teorico Practico para bailar el Tango 
Argentino de  Salon"

translation:

"In the first part of this method, which is the fundamental part of the 
dance ..............no only facilitates the complete and perfect learning of 
our authentic and popular tango, but also
it serves as the base to learn different dances with out the need of an 
instructor. These are dances such as vals, polka, mazurka, schottisch, etc., 
marshalling all of the movements of the tango dance to the beat of the music of 
the dances described above.

The same figures of tango at the same time update the dance described above 
including the One Step and Two Step. This is because
they can be applied to any dance. This means speeding up or slowing down the 
execution of of the movements according to the beat of the music
dancers would want to apply said figures."