? americano = american ?

Angel HI said:
I don't see it. What the heck are you talking about?
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Mirror is a more descriptive term. The embrace opens a lot, on the "open side" (man's left hand, woman's right hand side) of the embrace. Then the man steps with his right foot and the follower with her left. It's like they are making mirror images of each other. I think I've heard this called Americano, but I think I've also seen the same term used for when the man is stepping like this with his left foot (cross system) instead of the mirror with his right foot.

Currently, I only use steps like this to set up some type of colgada type (single axis turn) move. After the step, I swing/rotate the follower back around in front of me (into a more normal embrace), and then do a turn. What OD was referring to (at some point) was to do a walk (salida) in this manner (where the man and woman appear to "mirror" each other).

Not sure if I explained anything, or confused things more, but I gave it a shot.
 
Thanks. Understood. Only, I have seen these steps ever since the beginnings of my AT studies (1985). I know that you do not, and nor would I hardly refer to them as americano. Having danced w/ the argentines for many years, the oly thingthat I have known them to consistently refer to as americano is show tnago like in the style of Veloz y Yolanda, Valentino, etc.
 
Yes, well the Argentine distain of Valentino is a bit ironic because it turns out that he lived with an Argentine who taught him to dance tango.
 
well in italy is common to say "salida americana" and is the mirror salida (Leader and follower goes parallel and the leader makes a right step forward while the follower takes the left step so the are parallel)....for what they told me is called americana because this particular step was used by Rodolfo Valentino in his tangoes in movies...
 
Is Tango argentino an european dance?

(Generally I would follow arslanz´ explanation on the origin of the salida americana.)

But there is a another term wandering about in my mind: Tango americano. And, standing here in the rain in front of that old rusty gangway in Hamburg Habour on the 27th of December 2009 I cannot resist the idea that Tango argentino is an european dance in a large part.... anyway.

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TA was ennobled as a world cultural heritage by the UNESCO but the tourism industry tries to capture it as a product of BAs. And besides this a lot of Tango dancers and musicians iterate like a mantra what tango should look like, feel like, sound like a.s.o. Tango americano (kind of Habanera) was danced in Sevilla and Cádiz in 1850 long before the first true argentine tango was written down. Came Tango americano directly from Cuba or has there already been a "whistle shop" at the Rio de la Plata in between ? Anyway, there was a ping-pong infection in either direction, TA does belong to us all. All have contributed to its evolution and so we do now.
 
I'm in Italy too and agree with arslanz that "salida Americana" is very commonly used for the step he/she describes. Surprised to learn the step and/or the term are thought unusual elsewhere.
 
Another example of how and why we should not get hung up on terminologies. It is so simple to just stay with the basics and as close to the origin as possible.
 
Yep, I've heard the term before, used to describe the step where the leader and follower are side-by-side.
 
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