Giro (turn)

In the videos

Moments and chapters of TangoTube's interviews and classes that name it, each opening at its time.

• 56:48Credited by Vanina with inventing the profession of tango stage dancer: he came from the milonga but, with María Nieves, began adding ganchos, giros and other stage vocabulary that traditional tangueros at the time said wasn't tango.VANINA BILOUS Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
• 10:01At her second práctica an older man, a taxi driver, asked her to dance and led her through boleos and giros she had never learned, and she followed by intuition alone.GUILLERMINA QUIROGA Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
• 26:32The ocho and the giroMIGUEL ÁNGEL ZOTTO: Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) ESPAÑOL/ENGLISH
• 26:18Mingo Pugliese and the giro de ochoGABRIEL ANGIÓ Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
• 14:17Was the first, besides the Dinzels, to put a numbered structure of positions on the giro with sacadas, according to Fabián Peralta.FABIAN PERALTA Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
• 27:26Had Fabián Peralta walk for three months before teaching giro, then kept him out of milongas for a further three months, then had him sit and observe before dancing.FABIAN PERALTA Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
• 4:30Cacho Lavandina invents the giroMiguel Ángel Zotto - La entrevista
• 4:18Fuller version of the giro's invention: Lavandina, a bricklayer, was roofing Petróleo's house, hauling buckets of material up by a rope run through a pulley. Watching the rope spin, he had the idea of turning the woman the same way. He and Petróleo hung a rope from a roof beam and practiced with it before trying it with a woman -- she had previously only walked around the man (the media luna/paseo/caminada); making her pivot instead gave the figure continuity, and from it came the ocho and, eventually, the enrosque.Miguel Ángel Zotto - La entrevista
• 9:15She started dancing in 1999 and could not find a beginners' school with graded levels; she thinks a structured beginners' school teaching the basics (walking, the cross, ocho, a basic giro) would help newcomers."MILENA PLEBS... Tengo una pregunta para vos"" por Pepa Palazon 2/3
• 31:07Bravo recalls a 'Miguel' — auto captions render the surname as 'Soto'; likely Miguel Ángel Zotto, independently known to have studied with Todaro from 1986 — urgently asking to be taught giros and enrosques. Bravo redirected him to Todaro through Pepito Avellaneda, and when Zotto's show 'Perfume de Mujer' premiered, its marquee credited Antonio Todaro's teaching.RAUL BRAVO Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles / Русские субтитры
• 25:37Said (per Pepa Palazón's question, agreed to by Pareja) to have invented the modern giro.EDUARDO PAREJA "PAREJITA"... Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) Video 01/03
• 25:39Holds that canyengue originally had no giro (turn, invented in the 1940s) and no cruce (the woman crossing her feet); considers a modern canyengue with a turn to depart from the original."CARLOS PEREZ Y ROSA FORTE TENGO UNA PREGUNTA PARA USTEDES" por Pepa Palazon 2/3

Classes that teach it

• Miriam Larici & Leonardo Barrionuevo - Orchestras interpretation: cortado, sacadas & embellishments
• Tango Class with Miriam Larici & Leonardo Barrionuevo: Colgadas for social dancing.
• Tango Giro with Lapiz Technique
• Beautiful calecitas (Argentine tango class summary at Tanguito)
• Side Calesita Class Video #tangology101 #argentinetango #danceclasses
• Giros Milongueros
• Tango Giros
• Tango Class with Miriam Larici & Leonardo Barrionuevo: Media Luna & Molinete, mastering Giros.