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Triora
TODAY
R.I.P. the Late, Great & The Greatest
CARLOS GAVITO
"Tango['s] ... only passport is feeling."
(Page 115, "Paul Pellicoro on Tango", by Paul Pellicoro. Barricade Books, New Jersey, USA. 2002).
Gavito breathed tango.
When you first watch Gavito, you realise that you have missed something ... the whole point!
After Gavito there is no going back; it all changes for the better, from that moment.
Feeling & elegance
supersede fancy moves
CACHO DANTE
"The tango is a feeling that is danced. You can dance love, rage, happiness, pleasure, every mood. The tango is not a dance to demonstrate ability but rather an interpretation of feeling. The tango is Argentine, but it belongs to all those who understand its feelings and its codes."
Cacho Dante is a milonguero who has been dancing tango since the 1950's. He teaches and has danced in the film "The Tango Lesson".
Avoiding injury comes before 'clever stuff'.
Safety for others, on all dance floors, is first!
JAVIER RODRIGUEZ (R.I.P. Andrea Misse)
"The ugliest thing I see in a milonga is the couple behind walking into the couple in front! It should never be seen! It is not the couple in front who are to blame! It is not the followers' fault. It is 'his' fault! The first thing you should have all learned years ago is how to keep safe the woman in your arms! Respect her and also respect other dancers, equally...
...with boleos, however, 'she' must also take a lot of responsibility!"
(Javier Rodriguez, seminar, Tango Torino Festival, 2007)
We gratefully acknowledge the publications below for the material we have used to help construct this web page.
We highly recommend that you buy them all!
Left: "Paul Pellicoro on Tango", by Paul Pellicoro. Right: "A Passion for Tango", by David Turner.
and Graciella Gonzales
“In the past … you’d see 20 dancers who each had a different style. This is not the case now, because now dancers stay with a teacher and students become xerox copies of that teacher.” PUPPY CASTELLO.
(Page 132, "Paul Pellicoro on Tango", by Paul Pellicoro. Barricade Books, New Jersey, USA. 2002)
Christine Denniston is the author of the excellent book, "The Meaning of Tango; The Story of the Argentinian Dance". This is the an excellent book on tango. It is thoroughly recommended. Five stars!
CHRISTINE DENNISTON
" 'Tango de Salón' refers not to a particular style of tango but actually to the change in the nature of tango [from] the dos-por-cuatro music and dance that [was] enjoyed in [up to the 1920's, when] it began the journey into the salón. A change ... in the music led to a change in the way the dance was done. There were many, many different choreographic styles. Confusingly, dancers of different styles tended to concentrate on [the] differences ... and, when talking to young dancers of the 1980's, [when tango was re-born, these same Golden Age dancers identified] their own style as 'Tango de Salon' ... excluding all other styles. This led young dancers to define 'Salon' as a style rather than a technique that binds ALL tango dancers together [and] in turn, led to the use of other terms, such as ... 'Nuevo', [and 'Stilo Milonguero'] to separate styles that were all considered, by those who created and danced them in the Golden Age, to be 'Tango de Salon'."
(Page 203. "The Meaning of Tango: The Story of the Argentinian Dance". Christine Denniston. Portico Books. London. 2007)
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KEEP YOUR FOLLOWER SAFE. DO NOT KICK OR STEP-ON, OR COLLIDE WITH OTHERS.
RESPECT OTHER DANCERS' SPACE! TRY NOT TO OVER-TAKE ON THE RIGHT, IN THE SAME 'LANE'.
DO NOT DANCE IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT THREATENS or even TERRIFIES OTHER DANCERS! IT IS NOT TANGO!