Re: [TANGO-L] Tango Nuevo ... reply to WHITE95

[Jay Rabe <jayrabe @HOTMAIL.COM>]

White 95,

I'm curious why you say (I guess on what authority or reference) that
Gustavo "has nothing to do with Nuevo Tango."

I have probably bought un-thinking and without questioning into the
folklore/mythology that associates Gustavo with "Nuevo Tango", so am anxious
to understand whatever history you can provide.

But what I had heard was that Gustavo originaly developed the system of
analysis that has evolved into the step and embrace patterns that we know as
NT. Then Fabian learned the system from him, adding his own style and
character, and later Chicho did the same, adding his own individual
interpretations. Is this an inaccurate picture of the history of it?

I do think that the best way to think of NT is, like Tom Stermitz said, that
it is a system of analysis, carefully studying precise step placement, axis,
and rotational dynamics, and even though, as you pointed out, Gustavo and
Fabian and Chicho all look totally different on the dancefloor, still their
common heritage is the System that (I call) Nuevo Tango.

Jay in Portland
www.TangoMoments.com




----Original Message Follows----
From: WHITE 95 R <white95r   @HOTMAIL.COM>

First of all, the Nuevo Tango label was never really accepted by Fabian
Salas or some of the other famous and highly skilled dancers such as Chicho,
Mauricio Castro or Gustavo Naveira (who has nothing to do with Nuevo Tango
but his name always comes up).

Anyway, if the style of dancing that's being discussed is similar to what
Fabian Salas dances or the style (completely different) that Chicho dances.
Or some other such style, it's totally wrong to say it's not made for
rhythmic music. I've taken numerous classes with the teachers mentioned
above and I can tell you for sure that the favorite music these dancers
(specially Fabian) use to teach and perform seems to be Di Sarli..... It
would be difficult to find more measured and accentuated beats in any other
tango orquestra....... Sure, unskilled dancers cannot perform complex and
challenging movements to steady rhythms, but that does not mean that the
style of Fabian Salas (or others) is only useful for non-traditional tango
music.

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