[Tango-L] Tango's Cutural Heritage

[Ilene Marder]

seems to me more and more of the young people of Buenos Aires are 
dancing traditionally, not "nuevo". And they are fantastic.
It's the younger people /outside/ of Argentina who are more into 
"nuevo". They  seem not to be into tango as much as they are into "dancing".
I also find an appalling lack of knowledge about tango culture amongst 
most beginner and intermediate dancers in the states...but that is 
because the codigos and culture are not being transmitted by most 
teachers...

Trini y Sean (PATangoS) wrote:

>Nice post, Ron.  
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>--- On Mon, 5/24/10, RonTango <rontango at rocketmail.com> wrote:
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>>However, if traditional tango could survive nearly 30 years
>>of dictatorship and political tyranny from the late 50s to
>>the early 80s, perhaps it can survive the challenges
>>porten~o youth culture and foreign cultural demands and
>>economic influence. There is something unique about this
>>traditional tango that causes people from around the world
>>to become obsessed with it and travel to Buenos Aires to
>>find more of it. Another 10-20 years may be needed to
>>determine whether nuevo is the future of tango or whether it
>>is only an evolutionary experiment.
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