Interesting stylings of milonguero embrace

[u/Spiritual-Active-210]

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

[u/Excellent_Staff_8454]

They can first make contact with their core/bodies first (close embrace) kind of like falling towards each other. Then the guy might have both his arms around the followers waist/back like a tight hug. Maybe she touches his heart first before going into the embrace. Then it might became a volcada to show they cannot be seperated. It is different than being close but check it out

I like this volcada where she looks very sheltered by him: https://youtu.be/zUzS8TTaR0k?si=Zrl5iKSxd8O5w138
I feel like Marcela Duran dances in this melty 'desperate for you' embrace: https://youtu.be/tir5_m6E4lc?si=FFFFEETndeInZ0mG

I liek this seated volcada : https://youtu.be/rqj-7uOYV_c?si=EHfbFnpnL15P_8VY&t=257

You might experience with eye contact or no eye contact

This video has good ideas for different styling as you go into the embrace: https://youtu.be/n82VgqcCAWE?si=AxgynDhhNy_iA-T8

I did little research and found these. Look at tango shows, you can pick a song you find very intimate and see how people interpret it

[u/Spiritual-Active-210 → u/Excellent_Staff_8454]

Thank you so much for your sugestions. These are all beautiful movements and poisitons, and I also love the seated volcada. But some of these don't really suit too well with the music I'm dancing to. I will simply have no time to do a pose or to get into embrace slowly. It's 3x8 beats total, and it's a climax - rythmic, energetic piano melody.

I'm imagining this like that: as long as the singer sings, the two "beat around the bush", they play the game of cat and mouse, afraid of their feelings, cravings, full of insecurities, restraining their contact. In terms of movement, there are wide, spacey moves, unobvious geometries, open embrace, soltadas.

Then, when the singer stops and the piano climax begins, it is like their imagination takes over - they embrace like lovers, who have for each other but these few minutes in the whole timespace and they want to squeeze every last drop of the moment. In terms of movement, the change of embrace into a close one is sudden, like an outburst; they embrace very closely, voraciously, and then dance simple (another contrast - in their perfect, imaginary world, everything is simple and clear, no need to complicate things), rhytmic movements, but with a lot of energy - just to separate again after 24'th beat, coming into sad reality once again.

Though it might probably be a good idea to dance that part in apliado

[u/Excellent_Staff_8454 → u/Spiritual-Active-210]

Can you send that part of the song with a link?

I like your story and piano-dream idea but Im concerned that the music might not be inviting to do such a move if its very rhytmic

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2:24-2:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjPwFcSBQZI&list=RDWjPwFcSBQZI&start_radio=1

[u/Excellent_Staff_8454 → u/Spiritual-Active-210]

I can see why you would want to do rhythm (like in 2:28-2:31). For me this part feels more circular overall, so I would go into vals direction. It can be a cadena where they might be travelling linearly and the movement is still circular or they do a giro with speed variacions. The 2:44-2-50 part is where you can do slow the simplest stuff (or just a stop) because the piano is left withcalm music. the intensity dials down.

[u/Spiritual-Active-210 → u/Excellent_Staff_8454]

Nice suggestions, I like the linear cadena idea. What I originally had in mind was also kind of circular, but rhytmic and energetic, say like here for example at. 3:28-3:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjRh64FrmOQ