Re: [TANGO-L] True tango and nuevo tango

[Milonguero Viejo <milonguero @MILONGUERO.NET>]

I was out of the mailing list for quite a while now. But i see that there
are things who don't change, and one of this is the recurent discussions
on Tango-L about "authenticity" and "true" tango.
I almost share the same opinions with Aron. IMHO tango is like a language.
When we dance, we are "speacking" to our partner and listen to him through
our bodies. The same happens with the music we are communicating with the
musicians. So I think we can make some analogy with languages. As all the
languages change because people evolve and as other discussions an other
way to express themselve, I find it's normal the same thing's happen in
dancing. We do not make the same things and we don't like the same things
as our grand parents. I think we don't speak the same way to our boss than
to a friend or to the people we are in love with, so it's quite natural we
will not dance the same way with different people and on different music.
And the biggest factor for that is our mood, we don't danse the same way
if we are happy, sad, tired, quite, stressed an so on. So why not
completely change our style of dancing to better fit with all this
elements. And to really express who we are and how we are in this moment.
The last thing is who can say know how people where speaking at end of XIX
century what expressions they use, what was the common vocbulary, what
kind of gramatical mistake was common an so on... the same is right for
tango. No one can explain that. Even La Carmencita when she begun to dance
it was a long time after the "authentic" tango period. So I believe trying
to find how tango was in the early stage (Before 1930) is really
interesting (I'm involved in these kind of reasearch) but it's impossible.

Thank's for reading my opinon I'will apreciate discussing it if you want
and have some really nice tangos whatever the style you like and dance.

Dominique

PS: For those who are interested I'm a man. 30 years old. I like dancing
all styles. These last few monthes i tend to dance more (75% of time) in
the so called milonguero style.

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