[Tango-L] What's Nuevo?

[rhink2@netscape.net]

Greetings,

Here's what I observed from the video:

1) the dance is playful as is the music, in contrast to more passionate 
tangos
2) the routine appears choreographed, well choreographed
3) some of the figures are modern though rooted in what appears to me 
to be canyengue

I understand the question about the dance performed in the video since 
there are a myriad of styles.
Tango purists often label anything they don't like as "nuevo".  Some 
professional instructors I've known
take this attitude even further by claiming that if it's not their 
style it's not tango.

Personally, I feel that if it walks like tango and talks like tango 
then it's tango.  The nuanced parsing of styles
is probably an exercise in futility.

I apologize if I have engaged in that activity here.

Bob
San Francisco