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Described as Born in Bonifacio, Laguna Alsina, Guaminí district, south of Buenos Aires province

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  1. Martha Anton7 days agoDescribed as Born in Bonifacio, Laguna Alsina, Guaminí district, south of Buenos Aires province
  2. Graciela Cabrera7 days agoDescribed as From 1978 to 1980 she was in the ballet of Juan Carlos Copes and María Nieves, dancing in Buenos Aires nightclubs such as Karina and Castello Vecchio
  3. Graciela Cabrera7 days agoDescribed as In 1976 and 1977 she made her first professional tours of Japan, six months with the company Argentina Tango Show
  4. Carlitos Anzuate7 days agoDescribed as Between 1953 and 1954 he organised dances at the Club Mitre (Segurola 1332)
  5. Carlitos Anzuate7 days agoDescribed as He learned to dance by himself at 12, in 1942, watching people at a conventillo patio
  6. Carlitos Anzuate7 days agoDescribed as One of the last Afro-Argentine milongueros
  7. El Pibe del Abasto7 days agoDescribed as In 1945 he began teaching, after studying theory with Manuel Crespo, Vicente Gargiuli and Juan César Mendieta
  8. El Pibe del Abasto7 days agoDescribed as At sixteen, in 1935, he debuted at the ABC salon on calle Boulogne Sur Mer
  9. El Pibe del Abasto7 days agoDescribed as Born in Azul, Buenos Aires province
  10. El Pibe Palermo7 days agoPartnered with Carmencita Calderón
  11. El Pibe Palermo7 days agoDescribed as In 1942 he debuted at the Palermo Palace ballroom with Ángel D'Agostino's orchestra and Carmen Calderón as partner
  12. El Pibe Palermo7 days agoDescribed as In the Palermo ballrooms he earned the nicknames Tango Argentino and El Dividido
  13. El Pibe Palermo7 days agoDescribed as El Pibe Palermo was born in La Boca and spent his childhood and youth in Palermo
  14. Juan Carlos Copes7 days agoDescribed as In 1985, after presenting Tango Argentino on Broadway, he had the chance to meet Gene Kelly
  15. Juan Carlos Copes7 days agoDescribed as His autobiographical musical Copes tango Copes summarises his 50-year career
  16. Maria Nieves7 days agoDescribed as She was first noticed by Juan Carlos Copes at the club Estrella de Maldonado
  17. Maria Nieves7 days agoDescribed as Her elder sister La Ñata introduced her to the world of tango
  18. Carmencita Calderón7 days agoDescribed as The mythical partner of El Cachafaz
  19. Carmencita Calderón7 days agoDescribed as Her name was Carmen Micaela Riso de Cancellieri; on stage she took her Spanish maternal grandmother's surname and was known as Carmencita Calderón
  20. Virulazo7 days agoDescribed as At the height of Tango Argentino's New York run he refused to dance free of charge at a special morning performance arranged for Henry Kissinger
  21. Virulazo7 days agoDescribed as He was raised by his grandparents because his parents separated early
  22. Virulazo7 days agoDescribed as His birth name was Jorge Orcaizaguirre, of Basque and (maternal) Italian descent
  23. Virulazo7 days agoDescribed as The nickname Virulazo came when he was 18 and played bochas for money, from an Italian man urging him to throw a virulazo (a hard shot)
  24. Nelson Ávila7 days agoPartnered with Nélida Rodríguez
  25. Nelson Ávila7 days agoDescribed as In 1992 they were hired to choreograph the show Campo y Ciudad at Expo Sevilla 92
  26. Nelson Ávila7 days agoDescribed as In 1989 they acted in Marcos Zurinaga's film Tango Bar and designed their own show Tango 89, presented in Japan
  27. Nelson Ávila7 days agoDescribed as In 1988 they appeared on the Italian TV programme Fantástico, hosted by Adriano Celentano, in a special with Astor Piazzolla and Gerry Mulligan
  28. Nelson Ávila7 days agoPartnered with Nélida Rodríguez
  29. Rodolfo Dinzel7 days agoDescribed as Gloria and Rodolfo Dinzel developed a system for teaching and transmitting tango dance, called the Sistema Dinzel
  30. Rodolfo Dinzel7 days agoDescribed as In 1968 he qualified as a teacher at the Escuela Normal Mariano Acosta and that year decided to devote himself to tango
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