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La sensualidad, cadencia y nostalgia de Argentina a través de un baile de salón ejecutado abrazando a la pareja.
Angie Contreras (Newsteps) & Israel Andalon (Shanti Studio) en un performance de Tango en el Foro de Arte y Cultura Guadalajara
Características del Tango Argentino
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Tango is danced in a wide variety depending on the different styles that now exist. Argentinean Tango is danced in an embrace that can vary from very open in which leader and follower connect at arms length, to very close in which the connection is chest to chest, or as tangueros will say: heart to heart. Essentially, Tango consists of walking with a partner being sensitive to the emotion and speed of the music. Dancers generally keep their feet close to the floor with ankles and knees brushing as one leg passes the other.
Argentinean Tango relies on improvisation where ballroom dance communication is the most important skill for leader and follower and there is not really a "basic" step. Usually as the law of walking, Tango steps always alternate feet and rarely the dancer has his or her weight on both feet at the same time. Dancing schools outside Argentina (including Shanti Studio) have designed a basic 8-time step to help students learn faster.
History of Argentinean Tango
Tango was originated in lower-class neighborhoods in Buenos Aires and Montevideo around 1880 created and influenced from other European and African Dances.
The Tango music, which seems to come from Latin word "tangere" (to touch) was music that explained the feeling of Nostalgia of lonely inmigrants arriving to Buenos Aires and other Argentinean coasts. Tango Music speaks about unlove, fatality, and destinies ending in pain. The catalysts of these feelings is the "bandoneón". (Musical Instrument similar to the accordion but with buttons instead of keyboard and was inherited from Germany in 1886).
In the early years of 20th century, dancers and musicians from Argentina travelled to USA and Europe creating a boom in cities like Paris. In USA, the word "tango" was fashionable to dances like the one-step and American dancers developped the so-called American Tango while Europeans created the International Ballroom Style Tango. Both of these styles are commonly known as "Ballroom Tango". Meanwhile, Argentina itself got a boom for Tango through iconic singers such as Carlos Gardel who came from the working classes and became an attractive symbol for upper-classes too.
Tango declined in 1929's after the great depression. During the 1940's and thanks to the government of Juan Perón, Tango became a matter of national pride. After the 1960's, Tango declined again as a result of dictatorships and the banning of public gatherings.
After the 1990's, the Tango gained again worldwide popularity as new Tango Orchestras and dancers were born. Tango Dance increased its popularity also due to Tango shows like "Tango Forever" and "Tango Passion" or to movies like "Scent of a Woman", "Shall We Dance" or "Moulin Rouge". On 2009, Argentina and Uruguay suggested the UNESCO to inscribe Tango as an Intangible Cultural Heritage list, and that same year, UNESCO approved it.
Several styles can be found nowadays. Among the most important are:
Argentinean Tango (Classical, Milonguero, Modern): These styles are more related to the true roots of Tango. Feet always slide on the floor, the Tango embrace (abrazo) is really close and the skills to guide/be guided and improvise are encouraged. Milonguero style is more rigid about the clothes, the social behaviour of dancers, the places and the clothes to wear and the music to dance too. Modern style allows a wider variety of clothes, places, music and moves (including lifts or higher ganchos and boleos).
Ballroom Tango (American, International): These styles were created outside Rio de la Plata region and where influenced by North-American and European Ballroom dances. The Tango embrace (abrazo) has more space and the movementes are more theatrical. American Tango allows more improvisation while International Tango is more devoted into choreographies for International European Competition.
Show Tango (Contemporary Tango): This style is meant stricly for Shows and its based on choreographies inspired in Tango but borrowing most of its steps and techniques from Jazz Dance or Modern Dance.
Tango at Shanti Studio
Here we show some pictures about Tango at Shanti Studio Puerto Vallarta:
 "Tango Impossible" Exhibición de Tango en la celebración del día de la Danza en Península Puerto Vallarta con Ana Laura Cabrera e Israel Andalón. 29/Abr/2012 |
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 "Tango Impossible" Exhibición de Tango en el Malecón de Puerto Vallarta con Ana Laura Cabrera e Israel Andalón. 28/Abr/2012 |
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 "Tango Impossible" Exhibición de Tango en la fiesta Latina del Mes en el J&B Dancing Club Puerto Vallarta con Ana Laura Cabrera e Israel Andalón. 27/Abr/2012 |
"Roxanne" Coreografía de Modern Dance & Tango Show por los maestros Kenia Murillo y Pedro García para el 4to aniversario de Shanti Studio en el Teatro Vallarta. Ver video en Youtube. |
Benefits
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Text: Israel Andalón
Bibliography:
Le Moal, Philippe, “Tango”, Dictionnaire de la Danse; Larousse; France 2001.
“Tango Dance”, Wikipedia; Consulted on May 2012 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango_(dance).
“Argentine Tango”, Wikipedia; Consulted on May 2012 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_tango.
