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August 30, 2009

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Dance of the champions

This is a clip of the dance by current and previous champions at the recently concluded Salon section of the annual World Tango Championship held in Buenos Aires. The Japanese couple seen towards the end of the clip is the champion for 2009, and they will no doubt become household names in some dance circles in no time. However, the uniformity of the dance styles and music interpretation seen on this stage does seem worrying to me…

Here is another clip of the same couple I managed to find, from 2008.

More clips for the preliminaries in Buenos Aires. Salon:

Vals:

Milonga:

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