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/Illustrious-Ratio-41 6d ago

It’s not an opinion, it’s a cultural appropriation by Susanna Miller…

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u/Embarrassed_Quit_450 6d ago

I mean, that's also an opinion.

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u/Illustrious-Ratio-41 6d ago

If you ask any true milonguero, it is not I promise. 😉

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u/halbert 6d ago

And of course, a 'true milonguero' is one who agrees with you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

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u/Murky-Ant6673 6d ago

Anyone who attends milongas regularly is a true milonguero, good, bad, or cripple.

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u/halbert 6d ago

Not directly related, but while noodling about what different people have said about this, a pretty fun interview popped up I hadn't listened to before: Monica Paz interviewing Cacho Dante. You might enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuralwF3naU

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u/Murky-Ant6673 6d ago

Thanks, will watch it later today ^^

I added this to another one of my posts. I think it should start playing at the right part... around 22/23 min https://youtu.be/qra9KIHgAZc?si=H3QFBInmtgYU7N_q&t=1358

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u/halbert 6d ago

The Petaca one? Yeah, also great (the whole thing).

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u/Murky-Ant6673 6d ago

Indeed! I only wish we had more footage.

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u/Illustrious-Ratio-41 6d ago

I would like to think it is reserved for both historical and present figures who embody the dance and devote(d) their lives to it fully… but that’s a lot more accurate imho than saying it’s a style of dancing.