[Tango-L] milonga revisited

[Trini y Sean (PATangoS)]

Hi all,

A few weeks ago, I fretted about whether folks were still teaching the man's orientation with his back toward the center of the circle.  Most of the milonga workshops I have attended in recent years had the man facing the line of dance and the focus has been on traspie.  A search of Youtube (even on dancers like Facundo) did not yield a lot of evidence of the man's orientation, so it was difficult for me to show my students this style of dancing.

Today, though, I was pleased to find a video that clearly shows classic milonga steps being done with this orientation.  To me, this is what makes milonga more milonga than tango.  It's a demo, so they're traveling all over the place, but the vocabularly speaks for itself.  And, of course, Geraldine's dance pedigree is well-known.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp4y7qOEkDI&feature=related

Enjoy!

Trini de Pittsburgh