Term
Embrace (abrazo)
Argentine tango is danced in an embrace that can vary from very open (arm's length) to very closed (chest to chest). and El baile de tango se caracteriza por el abrazo estrecho de la pareja.†† Embrace (abrazo): El abrazo hace complicado combinar en una sola coreografía las improvisaciones de ambos., El tango canyengue se baila con un abrazo muy estrecho y los cuerpos en contacto., El tango de salón separa los cuerpos sin perder el abrazo., and The milonguero (apilado) style keeps a close embrace without V-shape throughout the dance.††
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- 5:22The moment she fell for tango: as a teenager taking Gustavo Naveira and Olga Besio's course at the Centro Cultural General San Martín, she was paired for the first embrace exercise with Naveira's own father, and the feeling of that embrace is what she still dances for, above the professional side of the career.VANINA BILOUS Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
- 1:03:45Her key technical insight, developed over years, is that a dancer's back -- not the chest contact point -- is where a woman's own autonomy and feeling live inside the embrace; discovering that freed her within a form that otherwise puts the man in control of the embrace.VANINA BILOUS Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
- 6:11Tango and the empathetic embraceALEJANDRA MANTIÑAN Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
- 9:23Culture, machismo and the embrace worldwideALEJANDRA MANTIÑAN Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
- 10:37Teaches that men on the floor are responsible for keeping order and protecting not only their own partner but the partners of the couples dancing in front of and behind them, through a connected embrace."JAVIER RODRIGUEZ... ... Tengo una pregunta para vos" por Pepa Palazon 3/3
- 38:27Todaro and the face-to-face embraceMIGUEL ÁNGEL ZOTTO: Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) ESPAÑOL/ENGLISH
- 29:01Teaching the embraceGLORIA Y RODOLFO DINZEL Tengo una pregunta para ustedes (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
- 52:465,000 years of embraceGLORIA Y RODOLFO DINZEL Tengo una pregunta para ustedes (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
- 18:02About five or six years before this 2020 talk, Milena Plebs developed tension and pain on the whole right side of her body (knees, hips, elbow, shoulder), which she traced to tension habits carried over from her classical/contemporary training combined with tango's asymmetrical embrace. She worked through it with Feldenkrais, RPG and by practicing the leader's role, and resolved it by learning to dance from releasing rather than holding/gripping.SABRINA VELIZ, MILENA PLEBS, NOELIA HURTADO: Tengo una pregunta para vos / ENGLISH subtitles
- 26:58Argues a teacher's central job is managing where a student's attention goes; sequences aren't bad in themselves, but relying on them can quietly distract a student from tango's essence. Illustrates the risk with a student of hers whose posture was permanently damaged because his first teacher, meaning well, only ever told him to 'walk' -- and walked him back and forth so much that a shoulder contracture set into his embrace.OLGA BESIO... Tengo una pregunta para vos... (por Pepa Palazón) - Video 01/03
- 15:14Says tango's essential thing is dialogue -- not only between the two dancers, but with the music and with the floor. Describes embracing the floor with the foot the same way she embraces her dance partner, giving it the same changing intensity she gives the embrace, the music and the crowded floor around her.OLGA BESIO... Tengo una pregunta para vos... (por Pepa Palazón) - Video 01/03
- 8:33The first time she ever saw tango danced was Ana María Stecklman rehearsing with Miguel Ángel Zotto (heard "Miguel Ángel Soto") for a show called "Jazmines", at the end of 1984; she was stunned by the embrace and the complexity of the movements."MILENA PLEBS... Tengo una pregunta para vos" por Pepa Palazon 1/3
Classes that teach it
- Tango: Technique - Embrace - Symmetrical - Foundation - Part 5 of 5 (teaser)
- Tango: Technique - Embrace - 4 Embraces - Foundation - Part 5 of 5 (teaser)
- Tango embrace » building a flexible embrace, Intermediate class of Sunday 13.01.2019
- Master the Apilado Embrace: Tango Techniques Revealed #tango #dancing #argentinetango
- Dartmouth Tango Class with Daniela Arcuri, 8/10/09: Tango Apilado
- New video coming !!! Stay tuned for “Arms placement” #dance #tangotechnique #tanguera #dancetutorial
- 3 Types of Tango embrace... (Argentine Tango classes 2020)
- Mastering the Perfect Dance Embrace: Compact Techniques #tango #dancing #argentinetango
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Glossary meaning Argentine tango is danced in an embrace that can vary from very open (arm's length) to very closed (chest to chest).
Single sourceGlossary meaning El baile de tango se caracteriza por el abrazo estrecho de la pareja.
Single sourceNotes4
El abrazo hace complicado combinar en una sola coreografía las improvisaciones de ambos.
Single sourceEl tango canyengue se baila con un abrazo muy estrecho y los cuerpos en contacto.
Single sourceEl tango de salón separa los cuerpos sin perder el abrazo.
Single sourceThe milonguero (apilado) style keeps a close embrace without V-shape throughout the dance.
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