![]() Do you feel responsible for continuing the tradition, giving it to the new generation?Īriadna: If you’re teaching, you’re responsible regardless of age. However there is a difference between tango salon and scenic tango and I personally like salon more, it makes me feel free and improvise.Īriadna: I prefer salon, like to dance on milongas. As for me, nuevo tango simply does not exist, as nowadays people strive for the techniques more than they used to in the old days. I just love to watch certain people dance: Milena Plebs, Roberto Herrera, my mom and my brother.įernando: I don’t think there are any styles. I don’t have any idols, just the dancers I like.Īriadna: I don’t have any too. I planned to be an architect, worked in a law firm.įernando: Alfredo Maldonado was my teacher. Have you ever thought of tango as a profession?įernando: No, never.Gustavo Naveira and Olga Besio, our parents, led a theatrical troupe and we were regularly visiting their rehearsals and milongas. Me and my brother we were quite young then, about 3 or 4 years old. It’s been 9 years since.Īriadna: To be honest I can’t really remember. I felt interested and took up dancing too. ![]() My friend danced tango and I was meeting her after classes. They give those who live outside Argentine cultural context the ability to submerge into it and feel connected.įernando: As for me it was a pure chance. However such articles and interviews are good in showing the invisible yet strong connections between the generations of tango dancers, giving the impression of tango as a complex and continuous phenomenon despite the dance itself is something momentary and vague. Being a professional means never stop exploring and mastering chosen craft and answers to some of the questions would differ today. Everyone was a novice in tango, even those who set terms on a dance floor today.
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