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Salida

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The salida is the beginning part of a figure, its starting-point.†

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  • 1:36:48Around 1989, at Club Sin Rumbo, Petróleo was showing Zotto a figure (a salida with voleo-castigo) and repeating it, asking 'did you see it?' -- until one time his body simply stopped executing it mid-tanda. He left the table saying he was going home; he was by then living poor on Calle Lugones in a converted garage room a friend had built him because he could no longer pay for a pensión. Walking him to the door of Sin Rumbo, he told Zotto he would not dance again.El Tango Hoy con Miguel Angel Zotto - Tango baile- Tango Danza - Entrevista con Lucas Paez.

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Glossary meaning1

Glossary meaning The salida is the beginning part of a figure, its starting-point.

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Named for Salida means 'exit or beginning', as in the beginning of a journey.

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