The American artist Robert Rauschenberg died Monday. He was multifaceted
and worked in many media, including photography, using his own photographs in
his work, which ranged from set designs for contemporary dance to paintings and
prints. He was not known for dancing tango but he obviously vis
Here is a link to the page Charles mentions:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/arts/dance/14coll.html?ref=arts
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There is a lot of sense in what Ron says. After all, you never see
anyone dancing ballroom tango at a milonga. At least I never have.
Perhaps it is time to rename nueveo "Argentine Ballroom Tango" to go
alongside International Ballroom and American Ballroom, and to have
special events devoted t
Good point, John. But Ballroom is actually a well-defined discipline
of dance with incredibly rigorous training.
How about calling "nuevo" Fake Tango? Or Pretend Tango? Or
Wanna-be-tango? The criteria would be no embrace, no musicality
(apparent deafness), off axis movements, no self-aware
Does anyone know about the composer and orchestra leader, Abel Bedrune
(1904-67)? What was his music like? etc? Any recordings?
cheers,
Charles
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There is a lot of sense in what Ron says. After all, you never see
> anyone dancing ballroom tango at a milonga. At least I never have.
> Perhaps it is time to rename nueveo "Argentine Ballroom Tango"
I don't think anyone dancing Argentine tango (be it "Nuevo", whatev
Nina Pesochinsky wrote:
> How about calling "nuevo" Fake Tango? Or Pretend Tango? Or
> Wanna-be-tango? The criteria would be no embrace, no musicality
> (apparent deafness), off axis movements, no self-awareness, a serious
> face and an attitude of self-importance. All of these conditions m
The problem is that "Tango Nuevo" is essentially a lie. I speak as a
former devoted member of that club.
It is not "nuevo" because there is nothing new. It was a disappointing
discovery after I had danced the glorious "nuevo" moves at some
practica in and then danced with an old gentlemen a
Tango Society of Central Illinois wrote:
> There is nothing wrong in separating them into different niches, i.e.,
> separate events. Each can have its own atmosphere. Dancers can attend
> these different events and respect the environment intended by the
> event organizer.
There's a word for that