Nikos TANGO Dalamagkas
2 conversations
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Miguel Ángel Zotto, Carlos Gavito · 8 min · 0 chapters
In Argentina, in November 2004, Miguel Ángel Zotto interviews Carlos Gavito, the first of two parts. Gavito talks about what he feels seeing so many people dance tango, says tango has no owners, and defines the embrace as the human warmth each of us needs. He describes growing up in a neighborhood where tango was the street corner, identifies himself as a dancer of the 1940s, and thanks Juan Carlos Copes for pushing him into it. He recalls his first trip abroad in 1968, to a festival in Medellín, and a story from a Caribbean bar where a man performed a mock, Valentino-style parody of tango. He closes talking about the place of women in tango.
Miguel Ángel Zotto, Carlos Gavito · 7 min · 0 chapters
Second part of a 2004 conversation in which Miguel Ángel Zotto talks with Carlos Gavito about tango. Gavito explains why, despite having lived and worked in dozens of countries -including through several wars- he always missed Buenos Aires and his barrio of Avellaneda, and describes the difference between the milonguero dancer and the professional dancer, and how his own style came about. He also recalls the first time he saw Zotto dance, at a milonga in Almagro in the early 1990s, and closes by talking about how deeply tango moves him and a trip he had to postpone because of his health.
