Enjoy life and embrace your female dance partner and lead her through this sensual rhythm by following the 2x4 tempo (*)
Here you can learn how to dance tango.
“Milongueros” (**) must closely hug each other, NOT just as people do in vals. The man must embrace the woman with his arms while she must show a warm attitude.
Both surrender to the excitement this music arises.- Every movement and pause gets this feeling.
The man leads the woman to move as they dance.
Remember Tango is a completely free dance, not choreographic, by which “milongueros and milongueras” (**) may improvise a choreography of their own according to dancing floor space possibilities or milonga” and to their own musical inspiration, but always following the orchestra rhythm.
(*)2x4 tempo: Argentinian mode. This mode, used in a proper context, means Tango. It refers to the first Tango music at the end of the XIX Century that was composed in two tempos per pulse (2:4). That musical characteristic lasted for a few years, till composers started to organize pulses in 4 tempos. Nowadays, Tango is composed in 4x4 or 4x8.
(**) Milongueros: Argentinian mode: Name given to people who dance at “Milongas
