06/03/2026
The motto for the day ❤️
In the 50’s and 60’s, people danced respecting the line of dance. Nobody was pushed or tried to pass the dancers in front of them... The codes were respected... Nowadays, people produce chaos. They don’t care to follow the codes and have no clue about dancing in the place where the couple in front of you has left the space free. A good dancer (leader) must have enough resources to dance and not let his partner (follower) be hit by other dancers.…
My beginning in the tango scene was in the “Golden Era” with …“reales milongueros”, and if they saw that you had a real style, they would invite you to practice… They had us walk for months. No figures or tricks. If you don’t know how to walk, then you will never know how to dance, despite what you believe.
I enjoy everything that tango offers me, all its passion, all its melancholy, the scent of a woman’s skin …Without this chemistry, there’s no tango…
We have to be gentle with our marks and movements, stepping correctly and simultaneously on the beat. We must dance INSIDE THE MUSIC and not before, it’s not possible to dance and then listen…
Tango is patience; tango waits; it’s an unattainable challenge that never ends. As the years pass, we must dance with more dignity. We can’t try to imitate the young ones; we can’t do what we were doing when we were 20 years old. We should dance thinking of our dance partners; be elegant with our moves; be subtle and transmit it to the person who is in our arms.
To be elegant while dancing means having a good posture, being relaxed, stepping firmly and with precision, and making controlled steps and movements. We must lead our body wherever we want to go and not the other way around. It is very gratifying to see a good dancer making only a few figures; more than five in tango is too much. Just walk well. In walking, one can see the elegance, and this is the most difficult thing in tango. - Facundo Posadas
Interviewed: Kumi, March 2009
Source: https://inheritingthetango.blogspot.com/2009/08/interview-one-facundo-posadas.html
Artists: Ching-Ping & Facundo Posadas
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