Sergio writes > he calls his video, "Having fun with milonga candombera", as far as > I know nobody danced that way till recently when some pertinent > music appeared or reappeared and people started to "re-invent" the > milonga candombera as a new stile of dancing milonga. These facts, > "having fun with" and the inexistence of this style till recently > gives the dancer a lot of latitude with respect to artistic > interpretation of the music. Since this is a new style of dancing milonga, I wonder if it is recent enough that we can trace its origins.
I wonder who coined the term "milonga candombera". And who, if anyone, teaches or hands down this style to others? I wonder where Jean-Pierre learned to dance this way, or if it is his own invention that he calls by a name that "seems to fit." How do names for tango "styles" arise and become attached to dance forms? How do these "styles" begin to harden into a codified recognizable form, each with their own techniques and rules about what is acceptable? Several years ago some people on the tango-l were talking about "candombe-milongas", and I didn't have any idea what they were talking about. Then I found music such as "Azabache", "Siga El Baile", "La Rumbita Candombe", "Carnivalito" ... etc. I assume that this type of music is what people mean by "candombe-milongas". But this music is, to my way of thinking, older. From the 1940s, I think. Is "milonga candombera" the way of dancing associated with candombe- milongas? If so, when did the recent revival of dancing to this music start? -Joe _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
