> nuevo ... in some communities, it has become the de facto representation > of social tango. > it would be beneficial in the transmission of tango culture to have an > accurate representation of the source of the culture. Otherwise, we are > just ugly Americans, Europeans et al. adapting a foreign culture...
Europe?? Ron, I've never experienced or heard of a community in Europe where nuevo is "the facto representation of social tango". In fact I can't think of even one milonga in the major tango cities where nuevo is danced by more than a small minority. > You can't expect accurate evaluations of instructor competence in > tango advertising. No one is going to advertise their limitations. Agreed. That's surely why so many instructor couples hereabouts rarely dance in the milongas, and if they do, only as a couple. In London there are instructors who I've not seen on the dance floor even once during the ten or so years I've been dancing/DJing here. I can believe they've found it better for business to be judged on what they claim in their flyers. > Susana Miller ... http://www.tangodowntown.net/susanabio.html "Clarin, the major Buenos Aires daily paper, called her one of the four most important influences on contemporary tango..." I've heard this is a fabrication. Does anyone actually have a copy of any Clarin article that said this? -- Chris _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
