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Argentine Tango intermediate class: crossed system circular walk on the open side.

Argentine Tango intermediate class: crossed system circular walk on the open side.

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Today, chatting over the phone with my brother, Carlos Solis, who lives in Argentina, about how to improve your Tango, he asked me if I think it is good to create a choreography, choosing a song and placing elements in order accordingly.

While this is not a bad option, I suggested him instead to create brief sequences of 2 or 3 elements that you can do in a small space, like the ones we usually get at milongas, so when milongas resume, he can use them and adapt and reshape them as he moves on the line of dance.

You can try the same. Here is one element to start.

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“Esta noche me emborracho” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo, 1942.

“Esta noche me emborracho” by Ricardo Tanturi y su Orquesta Típica with Alberto Castillo, 1942.

Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentine Tango composer and author.

Enrique Santos Discépolo

Poet, composer, actor and playwright. (27 March 1901 – 23 December 1951)

Unlike other popular creators who displayed their talent in an instinctive and somewhat naïve way to be later recognized as future exegetes, Discépolo was always conscious of his contribution.

It could also be stated that all his artistic renderings were articulated by common sense, a certain Discepolian air or spirit which people immediately recognizes with affection and admiration as if his work —more than once defined as prophetic— should express the common sense of the Argentines.

Discépolo´s singularity keeps on disquieting either in the tango universe or outside it. 

While most of his contemporaries are today strange to new generations, he persists, is in force. 

Or to say it with one of his most loved images: he keeps on biting.

The luck of the stubborn author started in 1928 when he composed “Esta noche me emborracho”.

Read more about Enrique Santos Discépolo at www.todotango.com

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Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda for a new group of beginners students

Argentine Tango dancing with Miranda for a new group of beginners students

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Miranda’s desire to learn Tango brought her to the Argentine Tango group Cambalache, over seventeen years ago, in her home-country Sweden.

It was with them that she started to dance, learn the poetry of the Tango music and the culture of Tango, and later on how to transmit this art to others.

At this point, Tango became a fundamental part of her life and who she is. In 2008 she moved to Paris, France…

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