Sorry Mario, but I see no sign at all that the lady [much better word
than 'follow', ugh!] takes over the lady. 1.05? Mario, perhaps you've
never seen a lady walk forwards before. Not that common, especially
in crowded milongas, but not unusual either.
Jack
- Original Message
New Styles of dance generate confrontations and polemics between milongueros
(Article from Clarin, Sunday, August 8, 1999)
I will divide this article in two sections, this is the first one.
For ten years, the proliferation of teachers and schools have been modifying
the way to dance tango.
_ Note from the translator _ to clarify: _ In reference to the three or four
most popular tango styles _
Villa Urquiza (Traditional) - Almagro (milonguero) - Naveira (Nuevo) - Todaro
(traditional - Fantasia) -
They are not difficult to distinguish. Make yourself comfortable on a stool
This guy Sergio can write Do I hear some applause?
The static postcard of the milongas today, with its colorful mixture of hip
youngsters and old time historical habitues
united in the ritual of the dance, is not more than that: a flat image that
rarely reveals something more than a
Dear Mario et al,
As Sergio wrote, this is an article from the Clarin newspaper. It was
written by one of their regular tango reporters Irene Amuchastegui and
Laura Falcoff.
The translation (by Sergio??) is terrific too.
Mario wrote:
This guy Sergio can write Do I hear some applause?
Yes as Barbara says and I mentioned at the beginning of the note, this is an
article that appeared in the Clarin Newspaper
on Sunday, August 8, 1999.
It is an article that I kept in my files ever since and I thought that it could
be interesting for the group with respect to the subject of
Barbara Garvey, another voice of clarity and common sense in this forum,
pointed out something very important in the examples of tango nuevo given by
Sergio. Chicho and Fabian dance very differently even though both were
supposedly dancing the same tango style.
Chicho, for that matter, seems
