[Tango-A] Canyengue at Piccolotango in Charleston,SC

[Kathryn Johns]

 A class in canyengue by Vittoria Natale and Guillermo Elkouss will be
featured on Saturday,June 10 at Piccolotango in Charleston,SC
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*Canyengue is considered the precursor to the tango that we know today. *
*Its rise dates around the last decade of the 19th century and remained
popular until the 1920's.
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*The word itself means "to melt [into one another or into the dance] or "to
be tired" according to Robert Farris Thompson. *
*It can be a very jovial dance. The style of dress of theera was mainly long
dresses for the ladies that made for short somewhat flat-footed steps. *
*The canyengue is the child of milonga which is a faster rhythmic dance
mainly attributed to the Afro-Argentines and Afro-Uruguayans of the 1800's.
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*Canyengue is also considered a dance of the blacks which caught on amongst
non-blacks as did milonga and candombe before
that.*
*Canyengue music is very rhythmic and appears to sound like a slow milonga.
The musicians most noted for this style in this era was and still is *
*Francisco Canaro, Roberto Firpo, Juan de Dios Filiberto y Juan
D'Arienzo.  Watch
out because canyengue is starting to make a come back in Buenos Aires, and
after the appearance of Robert Farris Thompson's new book on tango that
dedicates a whole chapter to canyengue, it's going to grow even faster. You
can get a jump on the masses that will start getting into it in the next few
years. *
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