On 05/10/2010 22:35, [email protected] wrote: > Regarding the issue of how styles originate, I believe that all dancers > have their own style. Every tanguero and tanguera has a unique set > of tango moves, not necessarily tango figures, with which they feel > comfortable and from which they are served in "moving to the music".
Not only moves. Posture, walk, the way the dance breathes and articulates phrases, you name it, it can all differ. > New styles help to keep interest in tango high especially > among newer, younger dancers. As far as I'm concerned you don't even need "new" styles for that. There are countless styles even from the "old guard", and being taught by Tete couldn't have been more different than being taught by Pepito. It's actually a sad affair that as a reaction to what some perceive as a monolithic "nuevo tango" block (that is, in fact, not homogeneous at all either; not everyone is a clone of Gustavo Naveira and Fabián Salas), they have to retroactively define a "Traditional Tango" as if it had been chiselled out of a single stone (so much so that even Copes and Zotto are being left out to dry as almost-not-tango, and are reduced to their tango stage performances). _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
