[Tango-L] Tango Pedantics

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David wrote:

"Is this how we should all look?  Hunched over with bent legs?  I'm not 
intending any disrespect,
because, as you all probably know, I am one of those "nearly anything goes 
dancers."  But I do
imagine that a number of regular posters to this list would find much to 
criticize about this
style if it were to appear in their milonga today." 

Touche!   Admittedly, Petroleo is not the best example of elegance, but 
Virulazo is, or Chino, who is still dancing.   My mistake, I was grouping them more 
by generation.   Yes, Petroleo has more of his own personal, quirky style.   
In these photos (I have seen the video they are from.) he is dancing with 
someone shorter also.   But even so he is quite adept at performing intricate 
steps while in close embrace.   In a broader sense though, tango de salon includes 
close-embrace dancing in general, and not doing open-style figures, and my 
reference is to that also.   My larger point was that the close embrace 
tradition has never really gone away and is still danced the same today as it was 
then, including the personal styles of its interpreters.

Cheers,
Charles


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