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2. Milonguero style - Wikipedia

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   Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne. Milonguero-style tango, also known as estilo milonguero (in Buenos Aires, known by name Estilo del centro because it originates from downtown milongas where dance floors were crowded) or apilado (piled up, stacked), is a close-embrace style of social tango dancing in which the focus is inward and the leg and arm movements are kept small. [4]

3. Tango - Wikipedia

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   Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries from a combination of Argentine Milonga , Spanish-Cuban Habanera , and Uruguayan Candombe celebrations. [ 1 ]

4. Partner dance - Wikipedia

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   In 1023, the German poet Ruodlieb referred to a couple dance with a basic motif of a boy wooing a girl, and the girl rejecting his advances. Men and women dancing as couples, both holding one hand of their partner, and "embracing" each other, can be seen in illustrations from 15th-century Germany.

5. Figures of Argentine tango - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

6. List of dance companies - Wikipedia

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   modern dance & ballet South Orange, New Jersey: United States: Founder Lydia Johnson 1999–present Lyon Opera Ballet (Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon) ballet Lyon: France: AD Yorgos Loukos 1969–present Maria Kong: modern dance Tel Aviv: Israel: Founders Anderson Braz, Talia Landa, Leo Lerus and Yaara Moses 2009–present Mariinsky Ballet ...

7. Ballroom tango - Wikipedia

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   Ballroom tango is a ballroom dance that branched away from its original Argentine roots by allowing European, American, Hollywood, and competitive influences into the style and execution of the dance. The present day ballroom tango is divided into two disciplines: American Style and International Style. Both styles may be found in social and ...

8. Dance costume - Wikipedia

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   A dance costume used in ballet. A dance costume is the clothing worn by a dancer when performing before an audience. A dance costume may be custom designed for use in a specific dance work, or it may have a traditional design, such as those used in some ceremonial and folk dances. Typically, dance costumes are designed to harmonize with the ...

9. Maxixe (dance) - Wikipedia

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   St. Louis journalist Marguerite Martyn sketched Irene and Vernon Castle dancing the maxixe in 1914.. The maxixe (Portuguese pronunciation:), occasionally known as the Brazilian tango, is a dance, with its accompanying music (often played as a subgenre of choro), that originated in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in 1868, at about the same time as the tango was developing in neighbouring ...