<div><tt><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font color="#ff0000"> 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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<div><tt><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>Canyengue is considered the precursor to the tango that we know today. </strong></span></tt></div>
<div><tt><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>Its rise dates around the last decade of the 19th century and remained popular until the 1920's.<span></span> <br></strong></span></tt></div>
<div><tt><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>The word itself means "to melt [into one another or into the dance] or "to be tired" according to Robert Farris Thompson. </strong>
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<div><tt><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>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.
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<div><tt><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>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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<div><tt><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>Canyengue is also considered a dance of the blacks which caught on amongst non-blacks as did milonga and candombe before<br>that.</strong></span>
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<div><tt><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>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
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<div><tt><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><strong>Francisco Canaro, Roberto Firpo, Juan de Dios Filiberto y Juan D'Arienzo.<span> </span>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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