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Milonguero is a style of close-embrace tango dancing, the name coined by Susana Miller and Oscar "Cacho" Dante from the Argentine word "milonguero". [1] Milonguero is a term for a skillful and respectful tango dancer who holds a reverence for the type of traditional social tango that is danced at milongas in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A milonguero is a person who spends time dancing social tango. The word comes from the term milonga referring to a tango dance event. The term was used from the 1870s to mark a man who spent much of his time dancing tango of any style. [1] Since the early 20th century the term referred to a man immersed in the tango culture specific to Buenos ...
Susana Miller is an Argentine tango professional who is one of the most prominent teachers and dancers of the modern milonguero style of tango.She introduced the term Milonguero Style [1] in the mid 1990s when she was assisted by Cacho Dante, Pedro 'Tete' Rusconi, and other milongueros with whom she collaborated to develop a new didactic and system to teach tango. [2]
Milonga is 'a purely African word meaning "argument" or "issue" in Kimbundu and "lines of dancers" in Ki-Kongo. (p9). Europeans first became aware of milonga, the term initially referring to an improvised, combative song, around 1630.
Alberto Bernardino Paz (April 16, 1943 – February 3, 2014) was an Argentine tango historian, teacher, and dancer. Alberto taught the traditional, social tango of the Buenos Aires salons, together with its codes and culture, to North Americans and Europeans.
Styles of dance are not predefined by the embrace itself and many figures of tango salon style are danced in an open embrace, it is also possible to dance tango nuevo in close V-shape embrace. The milonguero (apilado) style is an exception; its close embrace without V-shape and emphasis on maintaining this embrace throughout the dance ...
Carlos Espinoza (born 8 March 1981) is a Chileno dancer and teacher. His dance style is based on tango milonguero. Together with [Agustina Piaggio] he gives tango classes at various tango festivals around the world. One of Carlito's first tango teacher was Carlos Malone and Sergio Natario, who taught him the importance of walking.
Most milongas are held on a regular basis (usually weekly), and they often begin with dancing classes and sometimes demonstration dances. Usually, three to five songs of a kind are played in a row (this is called tanda) followed by a short musical break (called cortina) to clear the dance floor and facilitate partner changes. There are a number ...