Hola Mario, Regarding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y8CQZs9f8s
Thanks for posting this! This demonstration dance by Rodrigo and Mila is so beautifully musical, playful and connected! A lovely melding of traditional salon intimacy with the "gyrotonic" extensions of nuevo. Magnificent leading and following by these two talented dancers, who are not "bespoke partners." (Rodrigo is touring in Europe right now...) Look at the passage between 2:03 and 2:30. It starts with a simple walk with ochos in close embrace, adorned by Mila's piquant accenting taps outside Rodrigo's left foot, and ending the musical phrase at 2:15 with a side step where Rodrigo leads a "pisadita" (is that a term of art in tango? dunno, but you see what I mean, and how very cute it is!); then, at 2:19, he opens the embrace with a colgada/boleo (notice Mila's smile of delight, and how as a sensitive follower she has already allowed her left arm to slide the embrace open, permitting this possibility) and he leads a polyrhythmic interpretation that gives Mila full swing while he cranks into his own riff at 2:26. What to call this? Salon Nuevo, maybe. On my most recent trip to Buenos Aires (dec-jan), I heard that term for the first time. I'm not sure if it's a label that Rodrigo or Mila would choose to describe their dance; they'd likely just call it tango. I call it delicious tango, with a flavor of taking disassociation to its fullest limits. To disclose my bias, I'll admit that I took some classes and privates with Rodrigo while in BsAs and was impressed by his dancing, his teaching, and his menschiness. He's a young talent to watch. I'm an average milonguero-style follower of 10+ years and am not fully conversant in the nuevo vocabulary, but the stuff that Rodrigo does is all based on partner connection and hearing the music. Mila (the Muscovite divina) I saw numerous times dancing at El Beso (bastion of the milonguero style, all social dancing), and she was sought after by leaders of all styles and stripes. No wonder: her dance is elegant, playful, nuanced, musical, as you see in the video you posted--where she and Rodrigo are challenging each other creatively. Not sure if this addresses your question, but I hope this adds to a conversation that won't turn rough! Carole in Chicago _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
