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Open embrace

Open embrace: Many salon-style figures are danced in open embrace.^† An embrace with space between the lead's and the follow's bodies, as opposed to the close embrace where they are chest to chest.^†

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1:07:17Says 'Tengo una pregunta para vos' was born from a real contradiction: after reading a magazine interview where Chicho Frúmboli said tango should return to the closed embrace, she then took his seminar at La Viruta taught in open embrace, waited after class to ask him why, and he ended up talking with her for three hours -- that conversation became the blueprint for the show.Una charla con Pepa Palazon

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Many salon-style figures are danced in open embrace.

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Glossary meaning An embrace with space between the lead's and the follow's bodies, as opposed to the close embrace where they are chest to chest.

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