“Show Tango,” “Nuevo Tango,” “Tango Salon. “ Show Tango is usually a choreographed performance. Show Tango is performed for an audience usually on a stage or as a special performance at milongas. There is no detraction of Show Tango when performed at a social milonga for the audience. The detraction occurs after the performance when the social dancing begins and certain members of the audience try to “show tango”. All of the kicking jumping spinning and posing you see at a social milonga is meant to be performed on stage, it’s very disruptive to a social dance.
Nuevo Tango is danced in a very open embrace it is much like show tango and that makes it disruptive on the social floor. The main problem is pausing in order to do lots of spinning and lots of high kicks endangering the other dancers and stopping the flow of the line of dance. You can find milongas that cater to Nuevo. Tango Salon is tango danced with your feet on the floor. No kicking jumping or posing. It is a combination of closed and open embrace. This is the refined polite traditional social tango. It does not disrupt the social floor. The “Tango Buenos Aires Festival y Mundial de Baile” held in Buenos Aires each year features two styles “Show” and “Salon” Go to Youtube and you can see the difference. I hope this helps David In a message dated 3/10/2011 6:12:28 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: We talk about “Show Tango,” “Nuevo Tango,” “Tango Salon. “ And, of course, I have seen other labels used --that may be sub-categories? Here are a couple of questions. What are the distinguishing characteristics of one style or the other? How does one or the other style contribute to or detract from the *social*aspect of a milonga? Thank you for helping me to understand, Peter _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
