-------------- Original message from Jack Dylan <jackdylan...@yahoo.com>:
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Jack Dylan wrote
>If this ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS9sMTtozZI) isn't 'Nuevo' can
>somebody please tell >me what it is. I'm confused.
>Jack
It is a beautiful tango - of "young people". (With the greatest respect for
Sergio’s opinion, who so often had to step in to restore sanity to the debates
on this list.) I do not like the music though. Saw Chicho a number of times
using the same style shown on the video to interpret music of DiSarli or
Ricardo Tanturi, for example. Of course, Chicho blends in beautifully in a
traditional, “feet on the floor at all times”, milonga. His advice to us was
“don’t do this (re: a move in the video) unless you find a space and then
resume the close embrace dance”. It strikes me as a little insane that people
are being segregated to dance “nuevo” to the non-traditional music – re:
“alternative milonga”. Since I am often asked for it when I DJ, I can an only
speculate that the younger generation finds such music appealing because of
their disco, swing and salsa experiences. The “nuevo” dancers complained about
on this list are generally well behaved and polite people who, for example,
abruptly stop to let you go first through the door. It is up to the milonga
organizer who needs to stop acting as a potted plant and help such dancers to
translate their good manners into the milonga environment. I.e., not to inform
them that the “nuevo” is forbidden but that they MUST make sure that any
expansive moves do not interfere with or even scare other dancers. I.e., it’s
OK only if they find a space.
I wrote “nuevo” in quotation marks because the dance on the video is not
“nuevo”, it is the nuevo enabled tango.
Jan
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