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Antonio Todaro & Milena Plebs

Footage: Milena Plebs. Watch it on its own
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  1. 0:10Antonio Todaro began dancing at neighbourhood clubs in Mataderos in 1948, while working as a bricklayer.
  2. 0:18Todaro danced with Milena Plebs on television in 1990: this is that dance.
  3. 0:26Sentimiento gaucho, by Francisco Canaro and Rafael Canaro with words by Juan Andrés Caruso.
  4. 0:33From the late 1960s he ran academies with Raúl Bravo, and kept teaching through the decades tango was out of fashion.
  5. 0:41Often called the teacher of the teachers: much of today's stage tango descends from his academy.
Sources
  1. Antonio Todaro y Milena Plebs - Tango Danza 1990, Milena Plebs (YouTube)