NeoTango is a complex structure of different moments of a cultural movement. It includes music, dance, visual performance, fashion and codes.

First decade NeoTango is a complex structure of different moments of a cultural movement. It includes music, dance, visual performance, fashion and codes. Although the child had many fathers (and mothers), it is undisputable that »La Revancha del Tango« by Gotan Project in 2001 was the initial impulse of this new Tango period. »Gotan Project has done just that, causing a musical revolution: sweet, sensual, passionate«. Vogue.it Later on sustained period of growth of NeoTango bands followed, whose common feature was the fusion of Tango with contemporary music genres using classical, analog and digital instruments. Orchestras like NarcoTango, Otros Aires, Bajofondo, Tanghetto - to name but a few of the best known - generated such a suction effect in the Tango scene, as well as in the music industry overall, that soon many copycats jumped on the bandwagon with musical fast-food productions. These synthetic, hastily cobbled, low-budget productions played an essential role in discrediting NeoTango as »ElectroTango«. Well visited live

performances demonstrated the creative potential of popular NeoTango bands and their rapidly increasing number of CD productions set the standard in the first decade. Their sheer bulk surged with great force against the crusted, traditionalist Tango scene and broke small NeoTango enclaves out of their phalanx of Salon-Milongas. They sustainably changed the musical taste and the hearing sensation of their concert goers and inspired Tango dancers to establish the first Neolongas  (a portmanteau of NeoTango and Milonga) from 2006. Neotango dance floors combined  New Tango songs with the dancing repertoire of the pioneers of Tango Nuevo (Veron, Chicho, Naveira, Salas, Ladas). Their CITA 2000 festival in Buenos Aires played a key role in the Tango renewal process and extensively influenced several generations of dancers, such as DIN in Buenos Aires. Their international workshops and tours spread the typical dancing style of the Open Embrace with Saccadas, Colgadas, Voltadas and Ganchos and changed the international Tango scene very intensively and profoundly.…