Floating Tango
There are dancers in the world that astound with their level of creativity, astonish with their depth of musicality, and there are dancers that just blow you off the map onto another one and keep going until there are no more maps to be blown off…those dancers are rare to say the least. The come along once in a generation or two…so I’m told. We all have our favorites, couples that are amazing to watch, for one reason or another, but consistantly can you name a dancing pair that have a depth of musicality, breadth of vocabulary that goes beyond steps and patterns, and takes a stab at originality, something that hasn’t been seen before or hasn’t been seen in a long, long while ?
I can. I can name a few of my favorites, and one in particular that has spoiled me personally for watching others dance milonga. And that would be Horacio Godoy & Cecelia Garcia:.
What does it for me, is the floating aspect to his movements. He literally looks like he’s floating to me, and then he’s sharp and quick like lightening…and it’s the sharp contrast between the two that really push my envelope. While Horacio is known for his Milonga, and very few can say that, he’s actually quite an amazing dance all the way around…and even more so he shows that he’s floating, as he does here with his partner Cecelia.
In my estimation Cecelia is no slouch. To be certain, if it weren’t for her, Horacio certainly wouldn’t be as ‘fab’ as he looks. She reads him like a book, cover to cover. He’s good, but she’s better, In my estimation. She is the sizzle that sells the dance, eg: what you’re watching. And frequently it is the extremes to what he takes her to that look so impossibly graceful, and like she’s floating…not like she’s being dragged across the floor but rather being tossed high in the air and floating down to earth, slowly as if on a cloud that’s resting down for the night. It is her abilities as a fluid, lurid response, and more over companion to his requests as a lead that just makes you spin your head around a few zillion times.
Who ‘floats’ for you ?