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In Buenos Aires and other parts of Argentina, tango is danced
in a spectrum of individualistic or personal styles, and many
tango dancers who are Argentine do not accept a categorization
of their own dancing by any broad stylistic name. They simply
say they are dancing tango, their own style, or the style of
their neighborhood or city. A few confuse the issue further by
identifying their own style by a name that other dancers
associate with a different style. Consequently, parsing the
commonalities and differences that can be found across the
continuum of individual styles to clearly describe the
characteristics of various styles is challenging, potentially
controversial, and possibly misleading. Nonetheless, if we
regard style to mean an approach to dancing that creates
incompatibilities with other approaches and has a sufficient
number of adherents who stick firmly to the listed elements,
I think it is possible to create rough definitions for a number
of distinguishable styles of Argentine tango: salon, milonguero,
club, orillero, canyengue, nuevo and fantasia.
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