El Tangauta interviews Chicho
Another interesting interview with Chicho, and he elaborates on some of the same things as in the previous interview.
[The] milongueros had respect, delicacy and sensibility, it was totally different. I know my role is contradictory, because I also collaborated in generating this young movement. In its moment I got tired of the strict milonguero codes that didn’t correspond with my time and to rebel I tried to make my way. Today I’m a milonguero again (laughter); I’m against the people who do not cabecear (nod), who don’t have codes or respect. The value of tango has been diluted. That is why I say that many dancers are lost, they barely hold on to each other to dance and for two hours like zombies, it is very sad.
Mariano ‘Chicho’ Frumboli
Read the entire interview at El Tangauta, you need to register to download the pdf (issue 182). [Edit: It is now online here (direct link to the english translation)]
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Chicho makes some very strong statements in this interview. He accepts his responsibility for the lack of tango essence in the new movement. That’s big. He learned from milongueros, but didn’t pass on what he learned from them and got caught up in creating some new. I appreciate the fact that he admits the new tango lost respect for what tango is.
I hope this interview is read by teachers as well as dancers and sends shock waves to the tango world. It’s about time the record was set straight about the nuevo tango movement.
He makes some strong statements indeed. And that is what makes these interviews so interesting. I don’t know about shock waves, but I do hope certain people take notice.
Thank you so very much for posting just a part of the interview and for sharing the link to our website with your subscribers. As you may know, since 1995, El Tangauta produces unedited, bilingual and exclusive material. Althought it’s distributed for free all over the world, it takes lots of our time, effort and money to make it. Some friends post the whole material without our authorization, probably with no knowledge of copyright issues and (even worse) without mentioning our credits.
So thank you again for your generosity and knowledge.
Warm regards from BA
Thank you for reading, and for publishing such a nice magazine. Linking is only common courtesy on the net, if you ask me.
That said, I think you would have more people linking if you put the articles from the newest edition on the web, too, not only the old ones. Pdf files behind locked gates do not lend themselves well to linking.