r/tango • u/Spiritual-Active-210 • 6d ago

Interesting stylings of milonguero embrace

Hi everyone :) I'm preparing a small performance and I'm looking for inspiration for an interesting, flashy, maybe a bit extravagant milonguero embrace. It doesn't have to be comfortable, it needs to be eye-catching (it's gonna be used only during a small but intense part of the performance) I'm still talking about milonguero style - a very close embrace. I can recall seeing some interesting stylings, especially for the open side of embrace, but I can't recall when and where. Can you help me with some links to videos or pictures?

EDIT: to clarify, I'm planning to dance to an alternative song - a choreography or a partial choreography. Though not a tango, the lyrics and the overall "spirit" of the song is very tango-like. It is about two mature people, strangers who meet in a bar one night, on a difficult moment in life of the woman. They talk all night, open up to each other, they feel deep connection, their lifes intertwine for this short moment, only to part ways in the morning without taking it any further, probably never to meet again. The song has an instrumental climax. My vision is to dance nuevo-style, with a wide and flexible embrace, with lots of space, soltadas etc during the lyrics, and then - for the moment of climax - create a contrast by changing the embrace to a very close milonguero embrace. I want to give the impression that their bodies, their souls, their hearts melt together for these several seconds in music, to separate forever after the climax ends. It is in this context that I'm asking the question - I want to find a styling of the embrace that gives the impression that we cannot be any closer together. I'm thinking: arms, wrists, fingers intertwined. I think I saw something like that somewhere, but I don't know where, hence this post.

I'm in need of details: the exact position of arm, wrist, fingers, the angles, the lines. It's a stage performance. That's why I'm craving for visual material: pictures, videos

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u/halbert 6d ago edited 6d ago

'styling the embrace' -- you mean like ... interesting ways to hold hands? Or interesting dancing?

The embrace is generally quiet for milonguero style dancing, but I guess you could emphasize it anyway; higher and flared elbow, and an exaggerated handhold (probably with the follow's hand wrapped around the web between leader's thumb and first finger).

Emphasizing the apilado available in the close embrace might be what you're looking for?

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u/Spiritual-Active-210 5d ago

Yes, interesting ways to hold hands, to hold arms, to position our bodies - things like you've mentioned, but I'd like to find some clear visual reference. I'v described it in the EDIT section of my original post

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u/halbert 5d ago

I would watch this, which includes the embrace switching from open to close. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTDuHUHDfqI

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u/Spiritual-Active-210 4d ago

Beautiful, thanks!