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Argentine Tango dancing milonga with Mimi at Enchanted Tango Home

Argentine Tango dancing milonga with Mimi at Enchanted Tango Home

Everything that is good in Tango dancing is the result of practice.  

Regular exercise of walking, change of weight, pause, pivots, turns, paradas (stops), and embellishments create the foundation of your freedom while dancing.  

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“Un copetín” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1941.

“Un copetín” by Ángel D’Agostino y su Orquesta Típica with Ángel Vargas in vocals, 1941.

Cuarteto Juan Maglio, Argentine Tango music.

Juan Maglio Pacho

Bandoneonist, leader and composer (18 November 1881 – 14 July 1934)

Juan Maglio “Pacho” was essential to the acceptance of the bandoneon as a musical instrument of Tango.

Born in 1881, he started to learn to play bandoneon by watching his father play it every day after work.

He would pay attention to the finger positions and then practice them secretly on his home’s roof.

He went to school until the age of 12, when he started to work, first in a mechanic workshop, then as a laborer in different activities, and then in a brickyard.

At the age of 18, he decided to fully head into his vocation: music.

During the years of hard work, he kept practicing, in order to stay in shape for when the opportunity knocks.

He improved notoriously, and from his bandoneon of 35 buttons, moved successively to instruments of 45, 52, 65, 71, and at last, a customized bandoneon of 75 buttons.

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“La marca de fuego” by Rodolfo Biagi y su Orquesta Típica, 1940.

“La marca de fuego” by Rodolfo Biagi y su Orquesta Típica, 1940.

Juan Maglio Pacho Argentine Tango music disc.

Juan Maglio Pacho

Bandoneonist, leader and composer (18 November 1881 – 14 July 1934)

It was in the 1910s. The phrase used to be commonly heard at the record selling shops: «Give me a pacho». The vendor understood with no further explanation; he has just requested a disc.

Seen from the present days, it would seem a strange jargon, but on those days it was the most usual way, such it was the boom in sales of the recordings made by the orchestra led by Juan Maglio, who was called by his nickname Pacho, that this little word became a synonym for the discs.

He was the first bandoneonist who committed to disc bandoneon solos.

Undoubtedly, Juan Maglio (Pacho), was one of the most important musicians who followed the Guardia Vieja.

He was also a great composer.

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We are happy to have a collaboration with the people from tangotunes.com from whom some of you may have heard, they do high-quality transfers from original tango shellacs.

It is the number 1 source for professional Tango DJs all over the world.

  • Now they started a new project that addresses the dancers and the website is https://en.mytango.online
    You will find two compilations at the beginning, one tango and one vals compilation in amazing quality.
    The price is 50€ each (for 32 songs each compilation) and now the good news!

If you enter the promo code 8343 when you register at this site you will get a 20% discount!

Thanks for supporting this project, you will find other useful information on the site, a great initiative.

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“Recuerdos” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1941.

“Recuerdos” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo in vocals, 1941.

Alfredo Pelaia

Singer, guitar player and composer (November 15, 1888 – August 30, 1942)

He came to the country as a child, settling with his parents in Mendoza where, as he grew up, he was forming in him the Argentine spirit to the beat of the guitar, learned at an early age in his native Italy.

He made his debut in a theater in the city of Cuyo with a trio called Los Mendocinos, and due to his qualities as an interpreter as well as the native repertoire of Cuyo, simple and beautiful, he became so prestigious that led him to Buenos Aires to record albums for the RCA Victor, obtaining great success with his beautiful waltz “Recuerdos”, a page that is always remembered and links us to that time.

His exquisite art, his beautiful voice, his beautiful songs, brought him closer to his immortal colleague, Carlos Gardel, who gave him his affection.

Read more about Alfredo Pelaia at www.todotango.com

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Blas Catrenau and Luciana Guido at Festival Tango Valentin, Paris, France, 2016.

Blas Catrenau and Luciana Guido at Festival Tango Valentin, Paris, France, 2016.

Blas Catrenau and Luciana Guido, Argentine Tango dancers, maestros milongueros.

Blas Catrenau and Luciana Guido

Blas Catrenau

He started dancing Tango in his early youth among other young men at the practice studio of Crisol and Verné.

In the early ‘90s, he started organizing “milongas” himself.

From 2003 to 2009 he leaded “La Milonguita”, one of the most famous “milongas” in Buenos Aires. 


In 2002 he won the First Metropolitan Tango Championship in Buenos Aires.


In 2003 he obtained the Tango Teacher degree released by Buenos Aires City Government.

He was then authorized to teach at the Centro Educativo del Tango de Buenos Aires (CETBA), created by Masters and Dancers Gloria and Rodolfo Dinzel. 


His passion for dancing as well as the harmony he shares with his partners, and the gracefulness of his movements, capture and celebrate the essence of traditional Tango.


Luciana Guido

She was Blas’ dance partner for several years.

She was born in Buenos Aires.

She studied with maestros milongueros and then techniques for women with many tango teachers.

She taught at the “Escuela de Tango de Buenos Aires” and for a year and a half, in Paris.

Much of her international career as a teacher and dancer was developed in Europe.

Due to her interest in popular culture, she took the postgraduate course “Social and Political History of the Argentine Tango” (FLACSO Virtual, 2014).

She was recently co-director of the thesis “Barrio de tango, luna y misterio …”, based on the relationship between the neighborhood and tango lyrics.

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