Tango Styles
STYLES OF TANGO
- Tango Argentino de Tejas - Styles of Argentine Tango In Buenos Aires and other parts of Argentina, tango is danced in a spectrum of individualistic or personal styles, and many tango dancers who are Argentine do not accept a categorization of their own dancing by any broad stylistic name. They simply say they are dancing tango, their own style, or the style of their neighborhood or city. A few confuse the issue further by identifying their own style by a name that other dancers associate with a different style. Consequently, parsing the commonalities and differences that can be found across the continuum of individual styles to clearly describe the characteristics of various styles is challenging, potentially controversial, and possibly misleading. Nonetheless, if we regard style to mean an approach to dancing that creates incompatibilities with other approaches and has a sufficient number of adherents who stick firmly to the listed elements, I think it is possible to create rough definitions for a number of distinguishable styles of Argentine tango: tango de salon, Villa Urquiza, milonguero, club, orillero, canyengue, nuevo, fantasia and tango escenario. by Stephen Brown
- TangoScene: Argentine Tango Dance by Florentino Guiza: Different Types of Tango The many flavors of Tango When you hear the word Tango, the image that comes to your mind may be radically different then someone else’s. While some will argue that there is only one Tango. In reality, there are several forms of Tango and even several styles within Argentine Tango, as well as different Argentine Tango musical rhythms that call for variations in frame, connection, and movement. In the US, when most people think of Tango they conjure up the Hollywood image of a couple moving forward in promenade. Unfortunately, this image is Hollywood fallacy. Dancers, on the other hand, may conjure up more specific but different images of Argentine Tango or it simplified stylized version American Tango. Ballroom dancers will further be familiar with International Tango which developed in England and is popular mostly in Europe. Argentine Tango dancers will think of different Argentine Tango styles such as Apilado, Tango Nuevo, Salon or Fantasia but if you ask them what kind of Tango they like, some might answer, Milongas, Vals Cruzado/Tango Waltz, or Candombes.
Bailando Tango
Milonga Lesson - Javier Rodriguez
Tamgp Nuevo - Chicho Frúmboli
- CHICHO FRÚMBOLI: TANGO IS LOVETango Nuevo did not start as a dance; rather, it began with Astor Piazolla, who, according to the Heritage Institute, “was at the forefront of this development when he incorporated elements of jazz and classical music into traditional Argentinian Tango music.” Following Piazolla’s creation of Tango Nuevo music, Tango Nuevo as a dance was later developed. However, unbeknownst to many, Tango Nuevo could not have been as successful without the significant contributions of Mariano “Chicho” Frúmboli.