neotango
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Neotango is a distinct genre of tango which goes beyond it both in music and in dance. It is a global movement in which the music includes tracks from all over the world, instrumental and vocal, distinct from the tango in that it includes only modern music recorded in the last 30-40 years, and can be danced using the tango's biomechanics. As a dance form it is still evolving. It is a 'living' globalized tango dance form of the 21st century.{{Cite web |url=https://tangoforge.com/what-is-neotango/ |title=What is Neotango? |date=2019-12-10 |website=TangoForge |language=en-US |access-date=2019-12-14}}
The music
The term neotango has been used in the past as a synonym for tango nuevo, for example when Astor Piazzolla broke some rules of the musical tango pattern. Nowadays it mainly refers to electrotango,{{cite web |url=https://www.heritageinstitute.com/danceinfo/descriptions/nuevo_tango.htm |title=Tango Nuevo and Neo-Tango Dancing |date=2009 |website=HeritageInstitute.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702104245/https://www.heritageinstitute.com/danceinfo/descriptions/nuevo_tango.htm |archive-date=2015-07-02}} a fusion of tango and electronic music which emerged in Argentina in the early 2000s (Gotan Project, Tanghetto, Bajofondo, Electrocutango, Tango Jointz, Tango Fusion, Narcotango and Otros Aires) .{{cite web |url=http://www.tango.uk.com/tangodjukebox.htm |title=Tango Djuke Box |first=Steve |last=Morrall |website=Tango UK |accessdate=2 August 2016}}
Neotango is also used to classify milongas where a wide spectrum of music is played: not only electrotango and tango nuevo, but also classical music, blues, trip-hop, ballads, dubstep, deep house, klezmer, soundtracks, chillout, world music, etc.
The dance
Neotango dance is not tango nuevo. The term "tango nuevo" has been used in dance every time an Argentinian tango teacher came out saying he was teaching a new dancing style. For example, the term was used to refer to the tango of the old "Petroleo" around 1940, as well as around 1990-2000 when some Argentinian teachers promoted out-of-axis dynamics in their seminars around the world.{{cite web |url=http://www.neotango.com/neotangos.html |title=Sharna's List of Neotangos |website=Neo Tango |accessdate=2 August 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812045206/http://www.neotango.com/neotangos.html |archive-date=August 12, 2016}}
Neotango uses standard tango biomechanics and the tango's flow on the dance floor.{{cite web|url=http://tangoforge.com/rebelarch/ |title=Rebel Tango |website=TangoForge.com |accessdate=2 August 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522145140/http://tangoforge.com/rebelarch/ |archive-date=2015-05-22}} It is open to fusion dances and technologies, and it does not follow any of the strict rules of a traditional milonga.{{cite web |url=http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art20238.asp |title=Neo Tango : Argentine Tango Goes Modern |first=Karin |last=Norgard |website=BellaOnline.com |accessdate=2 August 2016}}
See also
- Modern tango
References
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External links
- {{cite web |url=https://www.tejastango.com/neo-tango.html |title=A DJ's Guide Neo-Tango Recordings |first=Stephen |last=Brown |website=Tango Argentino de Tejas}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.tangomercurio.org/ar-neotango.html |title=The Rise of Neo Tango Music |first=Sharna |last=Fabiano |date=2007 |website=Tango Mercurio |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117024738/http://www.tangomercurio.org/ar-neotango.html |archive-date=2015-11-17}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.doble-ocho.com/artikelneotango.htm |title=Neo tango is here to stay |first=Arnoud |last=de Graaff |date=January 2008 |website=Doble-ocho.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401092946/http://www.doble-ocho.com/artikelneotango.htm |archive-date=2016-04-01}}
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