TANGO ARGENTINO
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Tango Dance

Borges attributes to Sabato the idea that the tango "is a sad thought that one dances", but in reality the phrase is by Enrique Santos Discépolo. Borges refuted this, arguing that thoughts are not danced or sung, but feelings, and that tango is a feeling.

At the origins of Argentine tango we find the canyengue dance, around 1890. Quick and short movements (arraballero) are typical. Supplanted in the forties. The milonguero style is characterized by a tight embrace and contained movements suitable for confined spaces. A sober, simple and passionate style. Dancers often lean on each other and the individual axis is replaced by a shared axis around which the couple moves. The tango salon or couple tango dance was born in the past in the salons of the aristocracy, it is characterized by a wider embrace than the milonguero, greater respect for the individual axis, a search for elegance and spectacular movement. In the various shows or shows both in the theater and in the streets the tango dancers perform in the style called "Tango show" characterized by choreographic figures and steps with a strong spectacular effect, being a couple dance but being less "sincere" than the so-called Traditional Argentine tango dance. In the '60s and' 70s in the Argentine tango dance the fantasy tango is established, which is very different from the traditional tango. In the 2000s a genre known as tango nuevo danced above all to the notes of electronic tango has increasingly established itself. A real movement was created around the constant search for new forms of movement in Tango, in Europe and back in Argentina itself. All over the world the Argentine tango dance is witnessing a widespread diffusion, and has been constantly growing since 2000; a sign of this is the proliferation of milongas, the places where tango is danced and "lived", the growth of many tango dancers and the birth of companies that represent Tango on the stage and new tango orchestras (see Tango menu Music).

Argentine Tango Music: If you use the Streaming Services and you are a tango dancer or a couple tango dance enthusiast and would like to listen to some tango music to practice some Argentine tango dance, here are two of the best Tango Playlists with tango music made for tango dancing.

They are two precious Playlists to keep in your music library to listen to when it suits you. Through these two links you can access these Playlists in different Streaming services you will meet with the same name in Spotify, Youtube Muisc, Amazon Unlimited, Tidal or Deezer.
Click on each of the two images below to find them. Have a good listening!

Tango is a dance based on improvisation, characterized by elegance and passion. The basic step of the tango is the step itself, where by step we mean the normal step of a walk. The dance position is a more or less asymmetrical frontal embrace, depending on the style, in which the man with the right hugs the back of his dancer and with the left holds her hand, thus creating a greater distance between the left shoulder of the man and the right hand of the woman.

Tango dance. A few simple rules dictate the limits of improvisation: the man leads, the woman follows. Basically it is the man who asks in a purely body language to his dancer to move. However, for educational reasons, sequences with predefined steps have been introduced, such as the basic Salida.

Argentine tango is characterized by three different musical rhythms which correspond to as many distinct types of dance: Tango, Milonga and Tango Vals (Vals criollo). Musically the Tango has a 4/4 or 2/4 tempo, like the Milonga. The Tango Vals which, like all waltzes, has a time of 3/4, is danced over 4 bars.
The tango dancers practice different styles, to dance tango, headed by great performers of its historical phases, or to the neighborhoods of Buenos Aires or towns in its vicinity, where they have distinguished themselves. Some Argentine tango dance styles are: Apilado, Milonguero tango, fantasia tango, tango salòn, tango show, tango estilo Avellaneda, tango estilo Villa Urquiza, and also the neo tango or tango nuevo.
Among the most famous tango dancers should be mentioned José Benito Ovidio Bianquet known as "El Cachafaz", Alejandro Aquino first and only dancer of the legendary Osvaldo Pugliese Orchestra, Osvaldo Zotto or Carlos Gavito known for having introduced a typical "unbalanced" hug (apilado) , Gustavo Naveira who with Fabian Salas and Pablo Veron are at the basis of the evolution of modern tango, Mariano "Chicho" Frumboli known for its modern style and spectacular steps (such as the 2-legged sacada).