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Gerardo Portalea & Silvina Damiani

Footage: Esteban Moreno | Tango Argentino. Watch it on its own
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  1. 0:07Gerardo Portalea started dancing in the 1940s at Club Sin Rumbo, in Villa Urquiza.
  2. 0:17Indio manso, by Héctor Quesada, in Carlos Di Sarli's version.
  3. 0:26After seventeen years away from the dance he came back, and taught only now and then, informally.
  4. 0:36He is often held up as the model of Villa Urquiza style: slow, elegant, very musical walking.
Sources
  1. Gerardo Portalea con Silvina Damiani 2004, Esteban Moreno | Tango Argentino (YouTube)