[Tango-L] What is what?

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“Show Tango,” “Nuevo Tango,” “Tango Salon.  “

Show Tango is usually a choreographed performance. Show Tango is  performed 
for an audience usually on a stage or as a special performance at  milongas.
There is no detraction of Show Tango when performed at a social  milonga 
for the audience.
The detraction occurs after the performance when  the social dancing begins 
and certain members of the audience try to “show  tango”. All of the 
kicking jumping spinning and posing you see at a social  milonga is meant to be 
performed on stage, it’s very disruptive to a social  dance.

Nuevo Tango is danced in a very open embrace it is much like show  tango 
and that makes it disruptive on the social floor. The main problem is  pausing 
in order to do lots of spinning and lots of high kicks endangering the  
other dancers and stopping the flow of the line of dance. You can find milongas 
 that cater to Nuevo.

Tango Salon is tango danced with your feet on the  floor. No kicking 
jumping or posing. 
It is a combination of closed and  open embrace. This is the refined polite 
traditional social tango. It does not  disrupt the social floor.
The “Tango Buenos Aires Festival y Mundial de  Baile” held in Buenos Aires 
each year features two styles “Show” and “Salon” Go  to Youtube  and you 
can see the difference.

I hope this  helps
David


In a message dated 3/10/2011 6:12:28 A.M. Pacific  Standard Time, 
peterwesser at gmail.com writes:
We talk about “Show Tango,”  “Nuevo Tango,” “Tango Salon. “

And, of course, I have seen other labels  used --that may be sub-categories?

Here are a couple of  questions.

What are the distinguishing characteristics of one style or  the other?

How does one or the other style contribute to or detract from  the
*social*aspect of a milonga?

Thank you for helping me to  understand,

Peter