Tango Styles
Tango Milonguero
Tango Milonguero refers to a distinct form of dancing tango, close embrace and styled with attitude.
This "Milonguero Style" is also referred to as Confitera style, club style, Apilado style. The term Apilado can be interpreted as lean towards the leader for the follower, which describes the kind of close embrace used by the milongueros from the centre of Buenos Aires Milonguero style of dancing is clearly a very close embrace philosophy with full upper body contact.
As the dancers lean towards each other they share a third axis, creating, vertically from the heels, a pyramid "/\" formation, using simple walking and turning steps.
Tango Apilé
Tango Apile, is a more dramatic form of the "milonguero style" which is danced to slow music such as Pugliese. The pyramid "/\" formation is held for longer and the movements are slow as the rhythm of the music indicates.
Milonga con Traspié
There are different styles of Milonga dance:
- Milonga Lisa (Simple Milonga) in which you step on every beat of the music and;
- Milonga con Traspié, in which you use two beats to make a triple step, thus stepping on one beat, then on the half-beat and again on the next beat.
It is related to what is called syncopation, syncope: the stressing of a normally unstressed beat, making a syncopated rhythm. Thus dynamics may be danced without having to run fast or without the use of much space as is the case in all the milongas Porteñas in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
