Aron wrote: <<Just because they do not have a "master" or that they don't take lessons directly, it does not mean that they are not copying elements, moves, style, technique from others. In BsAs many dancers don't even know how to spell nuevo, but that doesn't mean they don't USE it's benefits (and of course most of them will never admit that there is any connection - probably they don't even know or understand, because they can't care less about exact classification).>>
Aron, that is your assumption only. A little more research into tango history will say otherwise. I think he was being ironic...or should have been. I doubt very seriously that El Chino, Petroleo, Virulazo or any of those older masters learned much from Gustavo Naveira and others like him. If anything, it is the exact opposite. Many of these older dancers were at least as inventive and acrobatic when they were young, but have distilled their movements into simpler elegant figures that are much more difficult than they appear. Don't confuse pyrotechnics for quality and refinement. Part of the reason so-called "nuevo tango" came about was because many of the then younger dancers like Naveira had rejected the tango of their parent's generation for rock music. They had considered it old fashioned and outdated and it had practically disappeared from their world. But when the tango craze was re-ignited around 1984-85, chiefly by Miguel Zotto (who had always admired and emulated those same old masters), they decide to capitalize on the new-found interest. But they had no roots in the tradition and instead interpreted it with the new "rock" sensibility, and were affected by non-tango influences and the music of Piazzolla, who openly admitted that he was more interested in tango's relationship to jazz and classical music and was not interested in carrying on the dance tradition. Cheers, Charles ************** Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
