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Emanuel Ortega

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  1. Entrevista a Javier Rodriguez, bailarín de tango, en RT

    Emanuel Ortega·9 years ago

    27:22

    Javier Rodríguez

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    9 years ago

    Javier Rodríguez · 27 min · 0 chapters

    Javier Rodríguez talks with an interviewer about his beginnings in tango, marked by the embarrassment of being "the teacher's son" who didn't dance. He recounts how a scene he witnessed at his father's milonga taught him that the tango embrace is surrender, not eroticism, and explains the milonga's unwritten codes and its respect for women. He looks back on his first step, on how the music -not the dance itself- was what hooked him, and on the difference between a milonguero mindset and a stage one. He closes by reflecting on embellishments as a language between partners and on why tango, traditional or new, will never die.

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