Tango waltz

Greeting card “Tango Waltz“ Flores del alma “”

Tango Waltz ( Spanish: Tango vals ) - South American dance , one of the three main forms of Argentine tango music ( tango and milonga ). ^[one]

Tango Waltz is one of the most romantic dances in Argentinean tango. Having absorbed the features of the European waltz and the tango itself, this dance has healed a completely independent life. Sensuality and lyricism , tenderness and sadness , sentimentality and passion fill this music with depth and make it unique and memorable. Dancing in the rhythm of a waltz.

A slightly different step technique, rhythmic features, phrasing, and characteristic accelerations sometimes create difficulties for novice dancers . The tango-waltz compass is asymmetric, the step is divided into three phases: weight transfer, leg collection and pause. The movement in the tango waltz is not uniform, as in tango, but impulse. When doubling, steps - have different lengths, but in total they should give the step size in the basic rhythm.

The tango waltz, unlike tango and milonga , has a more foggy past, making it difficult to trace its path from just a waltz to a waltz of Criollo and, finally, to the tango waltz itself.

Waltz - the forerunner of tango waltz - is much older than tango. Waltz, of course, was one of the first dances, where the partners, dancing in pairs, touched and were facing each other.

Waltz became an independent dance only at the end of the 18th century. Until that time, this dance was very aristocratic, allowing only a light touch of hands and a "respectful" distance between partners in a pair. However, then everything changed, and the partners began to dance in their arms, looking into each other's eyes ...

The word “Creole” ( Spanish: Criollo ) describes the working class of Argentineans of the “ old stock ”, often descendants of a mixed race of Spaniards and Africans who remained to live in Argentina. This “Creole” class had a very strong influence on the tango and even on the repertoire of Carlos Gardel , who was known there as “ Creole rural music ”. In the 1910s, after about thirty years, when the formation of tango took place, many composers wrote their music in the amount of 3/4. During this period, the tango waltz was born.

One of the most famous tango waltzes is Desde el alma (Boston Waltz), created by Uruguayan composer Rosita Melo in 1911.