Re: [TANGO-L] let's find a new name insted of this silly old milonguero style thing (and what is what anyway?)

[astrid <astrid @RUBY.PLALA.OR.JP>]

With the help of Stephen Brown I have come to the following conclusion (an
educated guess ?), which may be used as a glossary for beginners, and to
promote the sale of Aspirin:

What we have here is:
tango salon (Europe) alias tango milonguero (US) alias tango fantasia (US)

To clarify this, remember:
Tango fantasia alias tango salon (Todaro style instructors)
tango salon alias tango fantasia (US tango milonguero dancers)
tango fantasia alias the tango of Todaro, which is not really tango
fantasia, alias modern salon (Stephen)
tango milonguero alias tango apilado alias close embrace alias tango
milonguero but not apilado alias Club Style* tango alias the tango danced by
milongueros** (which does not infer that every tango milonguero dancer is a
"milonguero," which must be further divided into veros milongueros and
ordinary milongueros)
Club style alias close embrace, though not necessarily*

*quote Yvonne Meissner:
"Tango Confiteria and Club Style are also forms of Tango Salon which are
danced socially in the milongas, either with a close embrace or with a
certain distance between the leader and follower."
**Susana Miller has been credited to applying the term "milonguero" to the
style of Tete/Miller/Dante and for promoting its use in the United States.
 Some prefer to the use the term more broadly to refer to all the styles
danced by milongueros.

Astrid
P.S.
When people get tired of analysing this, maybe we could start collecting all
the different names used by Argentine instructors for the same move ?