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Gancho

In Argentine tango a gancho is a sharp move in which a dancer hooks a leg around the partner's leg.^†

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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.
31:14Forty-eight ganchos, blindfoldedFABIÁN SALAS Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
31:14Says that while everyone around him was dancing with two ganchos, he decided, blindfolded, to try to string together an arbitrary large number -- he says around 48 -- and only got about half of them clean; he says today there are roughly 120 known gancho variations.FABIÁN SALAS Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles.
51:30Rejects the idea of a rule against ganchos or other moves in tango salón, citing 1975 footage of his father dancing socially with figures people now say aren't allowed in that style.JULIO BALMACEDA Tengo una pregunta para vos.. with ENGLISH subtitles / Русские субтитры
3:40In the confiterías of the downtown, floor stewards (guardapistas) enforced rules against ganchos and caídas (moves he calls today's competition style); a dancer who got out of line could be warned off and barred from returning for two months, with his fee refunded.Entrevista a Raul Bravo, 84 años, maestro del baile del tango
21:09Floor guards and the banned ganchoRAUL BRAVO Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles / Русские субтитры
21:09Says floor guards (guardapistas) at milongas forbade ganchos and big voleos because women's stockings were expensive and tore easily, and that disputes over dance space could lead to fights.RAUL BRAVO Tengo una pregunta para vos (por Pepa Palazón) with ENGLISH subtitles / Русские субтитры
27:01Says the gancho did not exist in the original canyengue and is a later addition."CARLOS PEREZ Y ROSA FORTE TENGO UNA PREGUNTA PARA USTEDES" por Pepa Palazon 2/3
0:00Says Juan D'Arienzo's orchestra was the one with the most strength for him to dance to, and that it made the dancer stronger -- he links D'Arienzo's music to the era when giros, ganchos and voleos danced 'with strength' appeared.ENTREVISTA A ANTONIO TODARO, BAILA CON MILENA PLEBS [ English Subtitles]
13:59Says that the voleos, sacadas and ganchos everyone dances with today were discovered by himself, Gustavo Naveira and Fabián Salas, born first out of mistakes and then developed into a deliberate way of dancing.Mariano CHICHO Frumboli (2023) TENGO UNA PREGUNTA PARA VOS with ENGLISH subtitles
7:23Petróleo, together with two other old milongueros (heard as 'Cacho la Bandina' and 'al Basquito', unconfirmed), is credited with the giro, the llevada and the gancho, and — starting in 1938 — the cruce (the woman crossing her feet), giving rise to tango cruzado.Interview Miguel Angel Zotto - Tango x2

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Glossary meaning In Argentine tango a gancho is a sharp move in which a dancer hooks a leg around the partner's leg.

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Named for The name is the Spanish/Portuguese word for 'hook'.

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