It doesn't take long before you're addicted. I took 8 years of private lessons.

Welcome to a lifetime adventure of challenges, frustration & ecstasy and limitless possibilities. You can literally travel the world with this dance and immediately share intimate experiences with the interesting people through the lovely embrace and not even share a word of the same language. Love in the length of a song or tanda. Beyond words! Hailing from Napoli, Italia at Margheritango, Salon Margherita.

ARGENTINA NEEDS YOU

Thanks Egils I love knowing about the historical roots of the ballroom dances including the much loved Argentine Tango.

+Kristina Kelly argentine and uruguayan

Carlo Gardel

Uruguayan Style. No se sabe con exactitud donde nació, pero es un género músical y de danza desarrollado por artistas de las dos orillas, aunque habla más de Buenos Aires que de otra cosa, es posible que haya nacido en Buenos Aires pero es un género rioplatense influido por muchos géneros de las distintas etnias de América, Africa y Europa..

The Tango Lesson (La lección de tango) directed by Sally Potter, starring Pablo Verón.

Correct...and you get a gold star ^_^. As a daughter of Uruguayans and dances tango...wiki does explain the history of tango very nicely.

Right first places were tango were playerd were Buenos Aires, Rosario and Montevideo.

I did not know this, thank you very much :)

Not many people do. We also dance THE MILONGA. Also shared with Argentina, it's danced and revered a lot more in Uruguay. If you wish, I will send you a BEAUTIFUL milonga danced by Zotto and Giustieri.

Si hermanos uruguayos, es patrimonio rioplatense

A difference between salon tango and performance tango.

I think that they mean Argentine. S American tango, rather than salon vs escenario. They are very different dances.

Argentine Tango of today is 90% Tango Show or Tango Stage or Tango Choreographed, so the modern Argentine Tango is not anymore representative of the real improvised Argentine Tango

The opening sequence was from Dancing with the Stars. NOBODY on Dancing with the Stars dances Argentine tango. The judges (who know very little about Argentine Tango) think Argentine Tango is all ganchos and lifts.

0:00 - 0:46 Tango Rosario, 0:4 - 1:00 El Perro Chiquitin, 1:02 - 1:16 El Choclo, 1:16 - 1:32 La Cumparsita, 1:32 - 1:48 Guapita, 2:30 - 3:00 La Tango Poeme, 6:30 - 7:00 La Mariposa, 8:02 - 8:38 Tango At the Canal, 11:32 - 11:46 Adios Muchachos

Learning tango is much more than learning steps. Knowing how to MOVE is the key. The leader gets the woman to step FIRST so her leg is out of the way. He steps a split second AFTER the woman moves. If the man moves his foot first, he will kick the woman or step on her foot.

As Tangomaniac eloquently summarised the sequence, the lady steps first. If there are feet stepped on etc, there is an obvious lack of synchronisation. The man invites/suggests the lady to move and she moves followed by the man moving, following her. Just as this excellent film points out. All preferably in a 1/100 of a second. The old question will remain: who is actually leading and who is actually following? Having started argentinian tango only four months ago and now spending many hours/week, it's very obviously an addictive phenomenon - you have been warned. Highly recommend anyone to start tangoing.

I believe that is Cheryl Burke and Gilles (not completely sure of spelling) from DWTS.

Cubian walk

Los Estados Unidos no tienen ninguna, absolutamente ninguna, relación con el tango. Excepto el show circense que Hollywood y Rodolfo Valentino hicieran del tango. El tango es una expresión del Rio de la Plata, de la Argentina y de Uruguay, es una música exquisita, una danza pasional y una poesía sentida. Desde Buenos Aires, se exportó al mundo, donde se lo quiso y respetó. En los Estados Unidos hicieron una adaptación caricaturesca del tango, que no refleja en absoluto la pasión que expresa. De cualquier modo reconozco y felicito al director del documental. / The United States has absolutely no relationship with tango. Except for the circus show that Hollywood and Rodolfo Valentino did from the tango. Tango is an expression of Rio de la Plata, Argentina and Uruguay, it is exquisite music, a passionate dance and heartfelt poetry. From Buenos Aires, it was exported to the world, where it was loved and respected. In the United States they made a caricature adaptation of the tango, which does not at all reflect the passion it expresses. In any case, I acknowledge and congratulate the director of the documentary.

OK, I'll try: tango was the first dance to fully exploit the close embrace of the dancers and their independence from other couples and from each other: dances before the tango were either separate dancers, (like the contradance) or in groups or rows (like the minuet), and when the waltz introduced the embrace, dancers mostly walked and turned, and their movements mirrored each other. Dancers twirled and talked. In tango the embrace, (close embrace, not like the waltz), allows the dancers to move their feet and legs independently of each other. It's a serious dance, no talking. This was new, and of course, scandalous! Until the French said "c'est chic!" and the rest is history.

I always found curious how foreign people only see the "sensual" or "romantic" part of this dance, if you ask a random Argentino what he think about Tango they will probably tell you that is sad or nostalgic

Translation: Where is the original distinctive dance?

Ja, ja, ja, ja, se le dice tribu al conjunto de personas que practica tango. Cualquiera puede practicar y tocar tango sin distinción de color...

Translation: Ha, ha, ha, ha, the group of people who practice tango is called a tribe. Anyone can practice and play tango regardless of color..

We don't have tribes here in Argentina haha, It's the dance/ music name created in Buenos Aires

Why do you think Vals and Milonga are not belonging to the Argentine Tango?? For Milonga you need much more rhythmic feeling and phantasie than for tango. and there are few people who understand Vals. Here on youtube you even can watch teachers who "try" ---who try -- to dance vals.

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Dinos más, acerca de esto!!

@@AlexSmith-fs6ro Pugliese fue perseguido, censurado y encarcelado durante el gobierno de Peron por que estaba afiliado al partido comunista

@@AlexSmith-fs6ro INTOXICADOR INGLES DETECTADO

@@gato-grande Peron también persiguió a los 3 argentinos ganadores de Premios Nobel en Ciencias. Típico de todo fascista. Saludos

No please

Yes. Sex with your clothes on.

No💀

¿En qué año se inventó en Finlandia?, así sabremos si es la copia del tango argentino o es la madre.

Translation: In what year was it invented in Finland? So we will know if it is the copy of the Argentine tango or is it the mother

Well, the entire dance is improvised. The man leads EVERY step. However, the woman has some freedom in her interpretation of how to do the step. The best example is boleos. Woman add their personality, playing with the music. The woman can do whatever she wants as long as he DOESN'T interrupt the lead.

@@tangomaniac1 if you have a good follower the way she moves will also suggest how to proceed. Of course you can still lead something else and she will follow no problem, but it feels more like figuring out the dance together than just the leader giving the instructions. Like- okay, I wanted to dance this rhythm and do that, but with the quality of her movement and the way she did her decorations I want to actually maybe give her a little more time to whatever and follow her in it or maybe go into another step and follow the violin instead of the piano and bass as I intended to, because she moved a little more fluid and it seems more appropiate now. I think it should be more like a dialogue where you always stay open and listen to adjust your dance to what your partner is doing.

No way, it's an argentinian dance... Uruguay is just a province, no own culture.

@@germancarp88 tango is from the Rio de la Plata region, it doesn't have a specific county it "belongs" to

@@Otra_Chica_de_Internet Gardel said it belongs to Buenos Aires, and actually Uruguay was just another Argentine province

@@the_golden_eagle Gardel was born in France. So he was not real Argentinian.

BS. Do you know history at all?