Frank Zappa used to ask, "Does humor belong in music?" They are asking "Does humor belong in Tango?" I think the answer is yes. There are many ways of expressing Tango: elegant, sensual, playful, sexy, fluid, etc.

What they are doing here is very difficult and takes a very high degree of skill to do well.. and they are doing it very very well.

Carmencita dancing milonga in 2000 at 95 Years Old.

To see more videos of her dancing go to my "Favorite Older Milonguero Performances" page.

Elegant performance with wonderful enrosques and giros by Orlando Paiva and Cristina Benavidez

Beautiful and elegant performance by Dante Sanchez y Angelica Avalos dancing at the Sunderland Milonga in Buenos Aires. They are dancing to "El Ingeniero" by Carlos di Sarli

Great performance by Adrian and Amanda Costa. Really nice enrosques at the 1:10sec mark.

For those who missed this great concert. The Tango Orchestra Club Atlanta and Emory's Tango Ensemble perform at the Schwartz Center on March 17, 2010. Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús, singer; Osvaldo Barrios, bandoneón; Howard Goldstein and Seyed A. Safavynia, violin; Mary McCoy viola; Noemi Kurylo, cello; Todd Markey, double bass; and Kristin Wendland, piano; Horacio and Marissa Arcidiacono, dancers.

Great version of "Nostalgias" with Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús singing and then Pugliese's "La Yumba" and "La Cumparsita" in the style of d'Arienzo. Kristin Wendland is the director of the ensemble and is trying to do more live music that is also good for dancing. All three of these would be great to dance to.

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