TANGO FOR THE BLUES

Uno: Back step

You choose your shoes and chance to dance, 

a Tango for the blues 

Inventing avatars linking arms 

Sistemo paralelo, Creating virtual memoirs 

Dos: Side step 

Life, calmly rearranges Salida cruzada, 

threading side steps and exchanges 

into a common tapestry 

finely woven as the band plays A Legacy 

Tres: Beginning of the basic step walk 

Pasada, And you fly on a magic carpet

leapfrogging emotions, defying precepts

Cuatro: Basic step walk 

Routine redefined by intermissions of punctuation

Golpecito, Pleasures unrefined conjured with finger taps

Decoding, Deciphering and repeating between naps 

Cinco: Cross 

A change in Cadencia balanceo 

Dancers stuck in abrazo cerrado 

The termination of imagination darkens hues 

Reveals the nights black without ruse 

Seis: Walk 

The music plays on, stuck in your ear 

A stuttering stylus, Arroje unfinished 

skipping other songs of the LP record 

while absence gives way to despondent fear 

Siete: Side step 

Optimism, the perennial provider of hope 

prevents the analysis under a scope 

Overshadows the gnawing suspicion 

of permanent hiatus, Corte, 

and adjournment of the narration 

Ocho: Weight change 

The Tango for two , you yearn for a clue 

would it, should it, could it continue 

As you vacillate behold a disturbance in the force 

Media Vuelta, perhaps not, There's no par for this course

Tango terminology used


Sistemo paralelo: (Parallel Walk)

The leader steps with his left leg forward, the follower steps with her right leg back; the leader steps with his right leg forward and the follower with her left leg back


Salida cruzada: (to exit; to go out)

The first steps of dancing a tango, or a tango pattern, derived from “¿Salimos a bailar?” {Shall we (go out to the dance floor and) dance?}


Pasada: (To step over)

Stepping over the man foot in an elegant way


Golpecito: (Tap)

Quick tap done between steps or during a pause


Cadencia balanceo: (Weight Change)

A deep check and replace. Useful for avoiding collisions and making direction changes in small spaces


abrazo cerrado: (V - shape Close embrace)

The dancers chests are in contact and they are dancing with their heads touching or very near each other


Arroje: (Push)

Pushing follower away before leading giro


Corte: (A bow and a break)

Cutting the music either by syncopating, or by holding for several beats, may be used as a finale


Media Vuelta: (180 degree turn)

Used to change direction or manoeuvre on the dance floor and as an entrance to many combinations