1448  Tristeza de la Calle Corrientes

Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:51:47 EDT
From: Charles Roques <Crrtango@AOL.COM>
Subject: Tristeza de la Calle Corrientes

Barbara wrote:

<<<Actually my argument is with the types, including dj's, teachers and laity,

that want to take the Argentine out of Argentine tango by playing music that

would never be heard at a milonga in BA ( I can handle one Hugo Diaz but

that's about all), by doing all kinds of lifts, drops, twirls etc.>>>

My experience is that the ones who listen to the most diverse non-tango music
are often some of the poorer dancers.

<<<And the close embrace fanatics who go to the Paris of the South but

never leave the city center and believe whatever their tour guide tells

them. >>>

There's nothing wrong with close embrace because classic salon tango was
always danced close. It's the new interpretation of it, the so called "milonguero"
style that people only know, which has arisen over the last decade or two.
Tango was almost never danced apart but most people here and in other countries
don't know that and only know the tango from stage shows, which unfortunately
is what is often taught. Don't forget that the same young hotshots from
Argentina that everyone is enchanted by only learned the tango themselves recently,
some of them with even less experience than us. Before that they were too busy
listening to rock and roll and other music. Tango was something their parents
and grandparents did, It was too "old fashioned" for them. Until of course
they realized that it was cool to do it again.

But I'm off to Buenos Aires this week anyway, looking for the older
milongueros.
Cheers
Charles