tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477426980662990948.post2854539899670665552..comments2023-06-19T03:31:07.726-05:00Comments on Alex.Tango.Fuego: On Nuevo :: A visual quizUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477426980662990948.post-50912731241642400422008-08-19T18:37:00.000-05:002008-08-19T18:37:00.000-05:00Remember, there can be only one answer to a multip...Remember, there can be only one answer to a multiple choice question. Please choose the "best" answer. (Remember that from college days?)AlexTangoFuegohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13021896615610939454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477426980662990948.post-29835256577105618682008-08-18T18:21:00.000-05:002008-08-18T18:21:00.000-05:00My understanding of nuevo as practiced by my teach...My understanding of nuevo as practiced by my teacher Pedro and the other young things at Villa Malcolm and Practica X is that it is the newer, more 'active' more 'creative' expansion of the form after tango was virtually wiped out in BsAs by the military junta in the 70/80s. Yes it exsists - the old folks here HATE IT - but aren't we supposed to be analysing less and feeling moreAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477426980662990948.post-24580018218293517802008-08-18T16:49:00.000-05:002008-08-18T16:49:00.000-05:00I can't watch the videos at the moment, but I can ...I can't watch the videos at the moment, but I can comment on the anthropology bit. The sorts of taxonomies that anthropologists like Durkheim discuss aren't the kind that people sit around debating (like tango). It's more like the classifications that nobody even thinks to question, because that's just the way things are. Now, it could be that my sociocultural context supports one classification of tango genres/forms/whatever you want to call them, and yours supports a slightly different one, and so we'll have a heck of a time agreeing on one shared taxonomy.ModernTanguerahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16368826101823166702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477426980662990948.post-55131093469320520662008-08-18T09:31:00.000-05:002008-08-18T09:31:00.000-05:00Also ... I think I would be more willing to view s...Also ... I think I would be more willing to view some of these tango style classifications as a "folk taxonomy" if the people who were making them were simply dancers. Usually it's people with vested commercial interests who are propagating the tango categories - starting with Daniel Trenner's video catalog and continuing through the themes for tango festival weekends. When you are thinking about how to promote what you are selling, the use and purpose of taxa is different than if are simply trying to classify things to understand them better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477426980662990948.post-42678469728016775792008-08-18T08:18:00.000-05:002008-08-18T08:18:00.000-05:00I am going to step over this whole messy affair of...I am going to step over this whole messy affair of trying to define nuevo and go right to video #6 - Boston's very own TangoCheeseballs!!! I was lucky enough to see their performance at Tango de los Muertos and a finer example of Tango Cheese is not to be found anywhere else. <BR/>Actually, I think it enormously wonderful that they were able to use humour in tango. It seems so many people now are too serious about tango and forget about the fun of it.<BR/>Glad you posted their video, it gave me a good laugh this morning!Debbihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09194236468942331369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477426980662990948.post-19457280976841851952008-08-18T07:13:00.000-05:002008-08-18T07:13:00.000-05:00Nice videos, Alex.I would say that tango nuevo cou...Nice videos, Alex.<BR/><BR/>I would say that tango nuevo could refer (1) Gustavo/Giselle Ann and (2) Esteban/Claudia, but not the others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6477426980662990948.post-74731032331878389882008-08-18T01:55:00.000-05:002008-08-18T01:55:00.000-05:00Well, I'm not going to fall into this trap by tryi...Well, I'm not going to fall into this trap by trying to name what Nuevo IS. But I will tell you what I love: Ricardo, and Gustavo and Giselle Ann. And of course, the last video. They're my heroes :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com