Trini wrote: "Nuevo tango looks fine when done to Piazzolla. It doesn't look very good with D'Arienzo or DiSarli ..." Martin responded: "Trini, surely you jest. I am sure you have seen Chicho dance to Darienzo ( the famous youtube clip at la viruta with Lucia, I believe), and Gustavo dance to Disarl. IMHO, the best interpretations of those composers, and done with nuevo elements."
Wow, I have to solidly agree with Martin on this one. A brief tour of YouTube will show the kind of dancing by Gustavo & Giselle, Chicho & a variety of partners, and others, to classic tango music that are absolutely magical specimens of caressing the music and one's partner with heartrending connection and musical expression. Trini, perhaps when you visualize "Nuevo" done inappropriately to D'Arienzo/Di Sarli, you are only thinking of dancers you have seen who dance their current idea of some "Nuevo" elements but are not yet very good at executing them socially to that music. If this is true, I'll bet that, if they like the music at all, eventually it will "look good" if they keep working at it - especially when they have such sterling YouTube examples from the maestros at their disposal. In general though, I think Trini's idea of paying closer attention to the "Buenos Aires line", i.e., new developments in tango emerging from Buenos Aires, as opposed to the things emerging on the "tango frontier", is a very sound approach. After all, that's what any "Mecca" is for - to be a center for pilgrims from which developments and distinctions can radiate outward. Like Paris in the 1900's, cool things may happen elsewhere on the cultural frontiers. But until current tango developments are "ratified by Buenos Aires Tango", whatever that may mean to a given individual, it makes sense for that individual to assume that they're not really "the thing" yet. And this mechanism alone will serve to effectively define for all of us, through the coming decades of further development, what at any given moment is really "Argentine Tango". All the best, Brian Dunn Dance of the Heart www.danceoftheheart.com "Building a Better World, One Tango at a Time" _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list Tango-L@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l