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El Negro Lavandina

El Negro Lavandina: Starts dancing in the mid-1930s, in the D'Arienzo years (approximate)., Around 1937–38 has the idea for the giro while working as a bricklayer and develops it with Petróleo., With Petróleo, leads a new generation of dancers replacing the old suburban style (1939–40)., He earned the nickname El Negro Lavandina from whitewashing walls before painting them, and Around 1937 or 38, watching a basket turn on a building site, he thought tango turns could work that way, and later developed simple and complex turns with his teacher Petróleo.

El Negro Lavandina: dance style El Negro Lavandina.

El Negro Lavandina studied with Petróleo.

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Starts dancing in the mid-1930s, in the D'Arienzo years (approximate).1935

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Around 1937–38 has the idea for the giro while working as a bricklayer and develops it with Petróleo.1937

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With Petróleo, leads a new generation of dancers replacing the old suburban style (1939–40).1940

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He earned the nickname El Negro Lavandina from whitewashing walls before painting them

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Around 1937 or 38, watching a basket turn on a building site, he thought tango turns could work that way, and later developed simple and complex turns with his teacher Petróleo1937

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Dance style1

El Negro Lavandina — dance style El Negro Lavandina (the woman turning around the man; giros, enrosques and ganchos invented by that group)

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Studied with Petróleo

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  1. 1935Starts dancing in the mid-1930s, in the D'Arienzo years (approximate).

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  2. 1937Around 1937–38 has the idea for the giro while working as a bricklayer and develops it with Petróleo.

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  3. 1940With Petróleo, leads a new generation of dancers replacing the old suburban style (1939–40).

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