Re: [TANGO-L] Tango Nuevo and Argentine Tango. What is the difference?

[Iron Logic <railogic @yahoo.com>]

I am not sure if I understand what is Nuevo tango by definition.

According to Stephan Brown's site:

"Nuevo Tango refers to a pedagogic approach to tango dancing developed by Gustavo Naveira and Fabian Salas that emphasizes a structural analysis of the dance in which previously unexplored combinations of steps and new figures can be found. It can also mean the style of dancing that comes from that analysis".

Going by this definition nuevo tango is merely a way teaching/learning and understanding tango[??].

Then what makes these so called "nuevo dancers" dance the way do, rather so little dancing. I have seen Gustavo, the "father of neuvo tango", he really does dance, he does dance to music. So there must be a different definition for "nuevo tango ??

On the other hand personally I think tango can be better understood, if one realizes that basic structure of the dance is the turns, at least that is how I have been learning. Does this make me a neuvo tango dancer? ;)

So please can anyone tell me what is nuevo tango?.
Rai

Oleh Kovalchuke <oleh_k   @HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:One more note:

Since dance represents music it is my fairly safe to predict that as long as
traditional music is played at milongas, nuevo will remain at the fringes of
tango.

Cheers, Oleh K.
http://TangoSpring.com

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