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bordertangoman said:
but what does it mean?
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No idea, but I found this, in a comment on a blog that is interesting, but I have no idea whether it is accurate!

Allow me to add some trivia on “La Tupungatina”.
The name is derived from Tupungato, a mountain in the Mendoza area, near the Chilean border. La Tupungatina is in fact an old folk tune which was already recorded in 1921 by Gardel & Razzano*. This is one of the typical arrangments inspired by Pugliese – I like to call them “transformations” – of which it is very difficult to imagine how the original sounded. Similar cases are “Emancipación”, a tango by Bevilacqua (1910) – one should compare it with the version of Adolfo Perez (Pocholo), 1935 – and “A Evaristo Carriego” (by Eduardo Rovira, 1966) whose original sounds almost “campera” – a country tune -, very different in mood from the Pugliese version.

Johan
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And having just watched the video right through, I have discovered a Pugliese song I didn't know, and I like it very much, but I have also been forced to conclude that I didn't like Javier & Andrea's dancing (at least, not on this occasion). There must be something in the first 40 seconds that I just can't appreciate, but even after that, it left me cold. Ah well ...

*You can hear it on Spotify. (It's awful.)
 
UKDancer said:
There must be something in the first 40 seconds that I just can't appreciate, but even after that, it left me cold. Ah well ...
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I've seen them dance live and they are pretty boring and all that leg waving around is pretty much a cliche with superlative nobs on.
 
“A Evaristo Carriego” (by Eduardo Rovira, 1966) ..sounds almost “campera” ...very different in mood from the Pugliese version.
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I find it is just the opposite: Rovira doesnt sound rural at all, its tango nuevo. Pugliese seems to be kind of a last gasp in the dying of the classical tango in the 70th. Rovira was the unknown rival of Piazzolla. Piazzolla sought for a fusion of tango and the european avantgarde, Rovira merged tango with the baroque patterns of Bach.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEIJOOAW_Jk
 
bordertangoman said:
I've seen them dance live and they are pretty boring and all that leg waving around is pretty much a cliche with superlative nobs on.
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Superlative VU (k)nobs, if you please! And I suppose superlative is about right: they do it awfully well, I just wouldn't want to do it myself. I take it I won't be bumping into you at their Birmingham workshops in the New Year?
 
UKDancer said:
Superlative VU (k)nobs, if you please! And I suppose superlative is about right: they do it awfully well, I just wouldn't want to do it myself. I take it I won't be bumping into you at their Birmingham workshops in the New Year?
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Are you suggesting my floor craft is less than perfect??? ;)

no, and as VU goes, they are pretty rubbish, More Aston Villa than Villa Urquiza...
 
UKDancer said:
...I have also been forced to conclude that I didn't like Javier & Andrea's dancing (at least, not on this occasion). There must be something in the first 40 seconds that I just can't appreciate, but even after that, it left me cold. Ah well ...
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I agree. It was as if they were at the ballet barre doing rond de jame par terre (circling of the leg with the foot on the floor) and nothing else. They weren't dancing tango.

This presentation by professionals isn't helping social dancers form good habits.
 
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