Argentine Tango knowledge Archives - Corrientes Social Club: Recent Episodes
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Mina and Giraldo present Tango Encounters, a special Autumn Seminar to learn more about the history of Tango, its dance, music and cultural tradition.
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2020 (and most probably 2021) has been a year where dancers faced a new reality: everything we thought to be established in our lives went away at the blink of our eyes: our jobs, dance schools and work prospects. Artists and dancers learn from a very early age that nothing related to our profession can […]
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Tango is an improvised dance, which means there are not a set of steps that you remember by memory, like another dance as you do, that you learned some sequences and repeat those sequences exactly the same time after time. In Tango you don't have that which means that the trajectory of movement needs to be very clear for better communication with my partner, is not only for aesthetic purposes, of course, the movement will be seen much clear when the trajectory of movement is very well defined but it also communicates clearer to the other whether you are a ‘leader’ or a ‘follower’.
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Introduction As Tango fans we have probably noticed that some Tango band recorded Foxtrot and if we have travelled to Buenos Aires we would have noticed perhaps that some milongas play ‘jazz’ as cortinas, why, how and when Jazz encountered the Tango or was the Tango that encountered Jazz? Jazz and Tango – partners or […]
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The Argentine Tango is a cultural phenomenon that resonates within those who believe dancing is a way to connect oneself with people from all cultural and social backgrounds. This dance has proven to be beyond time, it has survived two great worlds, military regimes, national/international economic crises and constant waves of new music-dance fashions. It […]
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How an over 100 years old social dance can still today bring many benefits to your social life, body and mind? Dancing in general can bring glorious benefits to people of any age and dance abilities and according to the Better Health Magazine the list of these is quite large, here are just some: improved […]
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It is important to learn how tango evolved through the times in Argentine and the rest of the world, not only in its cultural context, dance structure but also as a expression of the arrival of modernity and individuality in the world of dance. The work of Christine Denniston, an English writer who has investigated […]
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-A media Luz by Juan D’ Arienzo Orquesta. The tango begins and ends in the embrace The encounter between two dancing bodies has much to do with emotional commitment, tango is a dance that in essence is related to feelings, a heart to heart meeting, it is also a complex mix of physical, musical and emotional […]
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