Neotango is a distinct genre of
tango
Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries as the result of a combina ...
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.
The music
The term neotango has been used in the past as a synonym for ''
tango nuevo'', for example when
Astor Piazzolla
Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (, ; March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed '' nuevo tango'', incorporating elements fro ...
broke some rules of the musical tango pattern. Nowadays it mainly refers to ''electrotango'', a fusion of tango and electronic music which emerged in Argentina in the early 2000s (
Gotan Project
Gotan Project is a musical group based in Paris (France), consisting of musicians Eduardo Makaroff (Argentine), Philippe Cohen Solal (French) and Christoph H. Müller (Swiss), a former member of Touch El Arab.Madlen Albrecht ''Le développement ...
,
Tanghetto
Tanghetto is an Argentinian neotango and electronic tango music project created and led by musician and producer Max Masri. Winner of the Gardel Award and four times nominated to the Latin Grammy Awards. It's based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...
,
Bajofondo
Bajofondo is a Río de la Plata-based music band consisting of eight musicians from Argentina and Uruguay, which aims to create a more contemporary version of tango and other musical styles of the Río de la Plata region. It was founded in the ear ...
,
Electrocutango
Electrocutango is an electrotango project founded by Sverre Indris Joner, based in Oslo, Norway.
Their first album ''Felino'' is mainly original music created for ''TanGhost'', a tango/theater performance based on Henrik Ibsen's play ''Ghosts ...
,
Tango Jointz,
Tango Fusion
Nuevo tango is both a form of music in which new elements are incorporated into traditional tango music, and an evolution of tango dance that began to develop in the 1980s.
Dance Origins
Prior to the 1990s, Argentine tango was taught with a didact ...
,
Narcotango
Carlos Libedinsky is an Argentine musician, composer and, producer. Born in 1961, he is most renowned for his neo-tango project, ''Narcotango''.
Before tango, Libedinsky transited through different genres, such as rock, pop, blues, medieval, an ...
and
Otros Aires
Otros Aires is an Argentine 21st-century tango music group founded in 2003 in Barcelona by Argentine musician and architect Miguel Di Genova.
Otros Aires mixes early tango and milonga structures from the beginning of the 20th century ( Gardel, ...
) .
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.
Neotango uses standard tango biomechanics and the tango's flow on the dance floor. It is open to fusion dances and technologies, and it does not follow any of the strict rules of a traditional
milonga.
See also
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Modern tango
Modern tango music (or contemporary tango) includes several different types of tango.
It includes nuevo tango, the music of Astor Piazzolla, Osvaldo Pugliese, Horacio Salgán and others. They are the composers who altered the idea of tango during ...
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