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Dancing is a great way to shake off the excess flab and get in shape and tango is a partner dance which is flirty, fun and modern. Over the years, it has been modified to fit the bill and one such form is Neo-Tango. Learn what it is all about.
While Argentines can and should forever claim the tango as their creation, the dance so old and so exotic that its debut is hard to pinpoint has evolved, and the different cultures that have embraced it have left their mark and even developed spin-off versions. Neo-tango, however, is a direct descendant of the real thing, derived from Tango Nuevo, in which Argentine tango composer Astor Piazzolla began to weave jazz and classical tunes amidst traditional bandoneon chords starting in the 1950s.
It wasn't until recently that Buenos Aires dancers Gustavo Naveira and Fabian Salas altered what had once been rigid teaching strategies, applying modern dance analytics to gratify learners without changing the dance itself. It's rather the culture that's different in today's tango, for which opportunity to learn and dance is plentiful around the world, thanks in part to social networking that has provoked an explosion in popularity.
Gone are the days of high ceiling-ed ballrooms and limiting oneself to just one partner: Like other lesson formats for social dancing tango is usually taught in rotation, giving everyone the opportunity to dance together at least once and help each other learn. From a musical perspective, Neo-tango incorporates instruments like the electric guitar and metamorphoses the now outdated harmonic structure of previous generations.
With inputs from AFP
Image source: AFP PHOTO / DANIEL GARCIA
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