Brian wrote: " and many of us have seen them bring this mastery to the social floor of the milonga with consummate taste, complete awareness of the ronda, and inspiring improvisational skill."
Brian, could you name a few social milongas where you have seen Gustavo & Giselle dance like in the video. If indeed they danced like that at a typical, say Buenos Aires milonga, I would call them a menace and it would completely destroy my dance experience on the floor with them. On the other hand, if I were part of the audience in the video, I would be enraptured to watch them all day long. Whilst agreeing wholeheartedly with your comment: "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". I would like to add for consideration, that "ratified by Buenos Aires Tango" doesn't mean very much, and maybe the thought should be more on the lines of "what's mostly danced". Just because something might be in the R&D stage of development, doesn't make it a successful product. Anton _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
