Tango de Salon

An elegant and very social style of tango characterized by slow measured and smoothly executed moves It includes all of the basic tango steps and figures plus sacadas giros and boleos The emphasis is on precision smoothness and elegant dance lines The dancing couple do not embrace as closely as in older styles and the embrace is flexible opening slightly to make room for various figures and closing again for support and poise Also see Stephen Brown's Styles of Argentine Tango