Exploring Tango Milonguero

It’s no exaggeration to say a chance encounter with milonguero Ricardo Vidort permanently changed our understanding of tango. Ricardo opened a door to a way of dancing that was simple, musical and elegant - a close embrace style shaped by a lifetime on the social dance floors of Buenos Aires. We’ll be exploring this Milonguero style in this 5 week course.

Tango Milonguero, also known as estilo milonguero (and in Buenos Aires as estilo del centro because it originates from downtown milongas where dance floors were crowded) or apilado (piled up, stacked), is a close-embrace style of social tango dancing in which the focus is inward and the leg and arm movements are kept small. The style developed from, and is appropriate to, crowded dance floors.