ARGENTINE TANGO

What is Argentine Tango?

A unpredictable encounter between two people, a unique and privileged moment, an improvised dialogue in a two-player game, tender and violent—a solemn challenge to our creativity.

Our work is aimed at discovering that tango, that floating, intense, and timeless movement of two bodies harmoniously united in space, ultimately merging into the same rhythmic motion, in a single and attentive harmony with the music.

A breeze of Buenos Aires in Ghent

Argentine Tango is a couple's dance, social, improvisational, sensual, and complex, with rules and codes, danced in an embrace. The primary rule is walking around the dance floor, counterclockwise. Milonga refers to both a style of music and the place where one dances, the ball, on a floor surrounded by tables.

Traditionally, in Buenos Aires and many milongas, the dance invitation occurs through conventional signs, mirada and cabeceo (exchanges of consents, prompting a controlled invitation). The evening is divided into Tandas: sets of four pieces by the same author or in the same style. Tandas are separated by Cortinas: a musical sequence during which dancers escort their partner back to their place. It often signals a partner change.

In tango, social class, age, or language spoken don't matter; the most important thing is the present, the here and now, in this improvised dance for two.