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We thanks the tango-lovers of our area for their strong interest, and congratulate them for the passion they carry in their dancing. It's always with a great pleasure that we plan and organise for you tango events.You will find an external link to a forum. This forum is entitled in french, but feel free to post in english as well. The unic forum will provide a broader readership to questions and partner search in the area of Vaudreuil-Soulanges.
We wish you very good
tangos to come,
Un abrazo milonguero,
Émilie & Louis
What is Argentine Tango?
Argentine tango is a
cultural
phenomenon born in the Rio de la Plata area, at the end of the 19th
century. The Rio de la Plata, as our St-Lawrence in Quebec, was an
important development agent for Argentina (Buenos Aires) and Uruguay
(Montevideo) toward the rest of the world. Massive immigration and
cultural mixity were the basis of the musical, poetical and danced
expression of tango.
The tango appeared first in Buenos Aires populars neighborhoods. Even if tango is seen often today in theatres by professional dancers, the soul of tango belongs to people of all ages and all conditions.
Tango can be tragic, melancolic, dramatic but also joyfull and playfull. As an improvisation and interpretation, argentine tango grows from a shared experience by two humain being. It goes on all the spectrum of human experience, nurtured by the emotion evocated by dancers and musicians.
The tango appeared first in Buenos Aires populars neighborhoods. Even if tango is seen often today in theatres by professional dancers, the soul of tango belongs to people of all ages and all conditions.
Tango can be tragic, melancolic, dramatic but also joyfull and playfull. As an improvisation and interpretation, argentine tango grows from a shared experience by two humain being. It goes on all the spectrum of human experience, nurtured by the emotion evocated by dancers and musicians.
Technically, the improvisation in tango requires a constant attention by the two partners for each other, as for
the music. There is no
choregraphy or predetermined steps. The presence of pauses,
deceleration and acceleration, symetricals movements (or disymetrical) are opening wider the
possibilities of
interpretation. Tango is danced not only on the rythmical
beat but
also on any musical level of the orchestra. Interpretation
will be
fluid,
dynamic or subtil following the individuals that dance together and
the music. In Argentine Tango, the communication in the couple is transmitted from heart to heart, by the contact between the two chests. This contact gives a larger freedom to the lower part of the body and preserves the intimity to the upper part.
A "milonga" is the name given to a tango dance event. There is three musical styles to dance: the tango, the tango-waltz (Vals cruzada) and the milonga. The milonga is therefore also the name of a dance that gived birth to tango, with Habanera and Candombé.
