Re: [TANGO-L] Influences in Tango Styles (nuevo is not a single style)

[Derik Rawson <rawsonweb@YAHOO.COM>]

Dear Sergio:

I agree with what you are saying about the different
styles.  My question is, which system includes ALL THE
STYLES and allows a dancer to develop even newer
styles from this foundation.  My answer so far is
nuevo.  Nuevo has created many new tango styles, not
just one. It is really an open system, not a style.
To call it a single style, like
close-embrace-milonguero-whatever is wrong.  Nuevo is
not static.  It creates many new possibilities for the
dance. It does not leave one stuck in a single style.
That is why the younger generation is using it to
refresh tango.  Thank God.  My opinion.

Derik
d.rawson@rawsonweb.com

--- Sergio Vandekier <sergiovandekier990@HOTMAIL.COM>
wrote:

> A person that comes to tango as a beginner or even
> those that have seen it
> as spectators do not recognize that there are
> different tango styles.  They
> just see tango dance or learn how to dance.
>
> At this stage one could argue that to know about
> styles is not important,
> except that the beginner exposed to instructors of
> different styles could be
> confused by the teaching of different techniques and
> further more he could
> have a tendency to mix styles in an ugly
> amalgamation.
>
> The initial tendency is to try to dance like the
> instructor that impresses
> us the most.
>
> Then there is the contact with other dancers, other
> partners, different
> clubs, different teachers that make us realize that
> there are different ways
> to dance or tango styles.
>
> We said before that at the beginning of the century
> the predominant style
> was Canyengue, a dance full of body contortions and
> quebradas.
>
> European women were not very skilled to do the
> contortions which were not
> considered to be proper in many clubs. As they were
> removed   Tango liso
> (without cortes or quebradas, void of firuletes)
> became popular. One could
> say that at that stage Canyengue and tango liso were
> the predominant styles.
>
> It is important to know that the styles are not
> static, they have a tendency
> to evolve the same as the music.
>
> This musical changes, notation of 4/4, introduction
> of the bandoneon,
> improvement in the education of the musicians,
> originated a slower tango,
> more complex and melancholic;  dancing partners
> separated due to moral
> issues and this created a more erect dance full of
> turns, molinetes, and all
> sort of embellishments.  ( Salon open embrace)
> (Tango fantasia).
>
> The instructors also have a strong influence, if
> they come from Stage tango.
> It is logical that they will create schools of "Open
> Embrace Salon Style" ,
> a dancing form very elegant and rich in all sort of
> embellishments.
>
> If the instructors come from social dancing they are
> going to create schools
> of followers that will dance "Social Tango" (Salon
> close embrace -
> Milonguero), an elegant dancing form, that preserves
> and enhaces  feeling
> and is devoid of the many embellishments that
> require a lot of space to be
> performed, It is very appropriated for dancing
> socially under any conditions
> of space and musical form.
>
> The fact that most salons are extremely crowded in
> Buenos Aires caused some
> changes in the Close Embrace style, modifications
> that allow the couple to
> remain in contact throughout the dance while
> utilizing very limited space.
> (ex. Ocho cortado/milonguero).
>
> If the instructors come from the small ( and rapidly
> growing) group of Nuevo
> Tango teachers they are going to create schools of
> followers of that style.
>
> We frequently talk about tango style and  personal
> style, they are quite
> different.
>
> This last one will be developed very slowly during
> the learning process and
> will continue to progress after that process is
> finished (if it is ever
> finished).
>
> It depends on many variables such as personality,
> skill, feeling for the
> music and artistic interpretation of it, his body
> structural
> characteristics, his taste, sensibility,  and his
> own prior experiences.
>
> It is also important to remember that the same, as
> popular tango styles
> change,   personal style also  evolves and changes.
>
> Summary:  Popular tango Styles and  personal tango
> style both change with
> time
>                under the impact of different
> influences, such as morals and
> customs, fashions, instructors, availability or lack
> of space to dance,
> personal traits and personal prior experince in
> life.
>
> Best regards, Sergio
>
>
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