Dictionary: All Listings 

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A milonga step in which the couple alternately step through between each other the man with his right leg and the lady mirroring with her left in espejo then pivot to face each other as they step together May be repeated as desired

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Cut: In tango corte means cutting the music either by syncopating or by holding for several beats May refer to a position in which the torso is erect over a flexed supporting leg with the working leg extended forward to a pointe with the knees together w ...

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Corte: Schnitt, eine Zäsur im Tanz

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Curtain: A brief musical interlude between tandas at a milonga

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Cortina: è un intermezzo tra una tanda e l’altra, che permette alle coppie di sciogliersi in modo da riformarsi alla tanda successiva. Normalmente si utilizzano come cortine brani non ballabili, di lunghezza variabile, che dipende dalla grandezza della sa ...

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Cortina: Vorhang. Ein Stück Musik, das immer für etwa eine Minute zwischen zwei >Tandas gespielt wird.

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Occurs whenever the couple are stepping together on his and her right feet and then on his and her left feet regardless of direction The opposite of parallel feet

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From cruzar - to cross; the cross: A cruzada occurs any time a foot is crossed in front of or in back of the other The lady’s position at 5 of the 8-count basic May also be called Trabada

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cruzado: gekreuzt; (básico cruzado) das gekreuzte System, in dem Mann und Frau die selben Beine (also rechts oder links) gleichzeitig setzen.

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A square; A box step: Used mostly in Milonga Canyengue and Milonguero- and Club-style tango See Baldosa

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Poses: Dance lines struck and held as dramatic flourishes at the end of a song Large dramatic ones are used for stage or fantasia dancing smaller softer versions occasionally in Salon style and not used in Milonguero style at all See Corte

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A figure created when the lady flicks her lower leg up the outside of the opposite leg keeping her knees together and briefly creating a numeral 4 in profile This can be led with a sacada or with an arrested rotational lead like a boleo or it can be used ...

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The spoon A lifting of the lady’s foot with a gentle scooping motion by the man’s foot to the lady’s shoe usually led during forward ochos to create a flicking motion of the lady’s leg

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Body; torso

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Cradle: A forward and backward rocking step done in time with the music and with or without chiches which is useful for marking time or changing direction in a small space This movement may be turned to the left or right danced with either the left or ri ...

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Cunita: Wiegeschritt

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Toe or finger

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Definición: Sequenz, die eine Figur abschliesst

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Right (the opposite of left)

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Erect straight forward See Postura