[Tango-L] What is tango - Another video clip

Tango Mail tango at springssauna.com
Wed Dec 12 20:21:06 EST 2007


My previous post had a few links to Rudolph Valentino's "Horsemen of the Apocalypse", that
illustrated the tango style of the early 20's.  Here is a short clip from the Carlos Gardel movie
"Tango Bar", released in 1935.  Style is a lot smoother but the embrace still wrecks the woman's
back, lol.  If the A.T. embrace of the 1910-30's indeed was like that, where the man was fully or half
to the side of the woman, it makes a lot of sense why Ballroom tango connects where it does and 
how it does;  man's foot always goes in-between the woman's feet.

This clip is actually all of the tango dancing that can be seen in the 58 minute movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOpAvx5tpUg

JK


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