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Carmencita Calderón - Virtual Class 10/11/2020 by Makela Tango
Carmencita Calderón - Virtual Class 10/11/2020 by Makela Tango

Carmencita’s significance as a tango dancer:

* She had 87+ years of tango dancing.

* She danced and performed with El Cachafaz one of the most important male Tango dancers.

* She performed in the first Argentinean sound movie “Tango” in 1933.

* Her dance was unique, musical. She improvised and interpreted beautifully the lead of her partner with adornments.

* Carmencita and El Cachafaz created a new tango dancing style with corridas - sentadas - quebradas (Anecdotally she also says that she is the creator of the tango skirt slit)

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Tango Musicality/HistoryMakela TangoMakela Tangocarmencita calderon, tango, Argentine Tango, tango dancers
Women in Tango - Virtual Class w/Makela 6/21/2020
Women in Tango - Virtual Class w/Makela 6/21/2020

Some of the women that made history in the Tango of the beginning of the 20th century

Carmencita Calderón - DANCER (1902-2005)

Ada Falcón - SINGER (1905-2002)

Paquita Bernardo - BANDONEONIST (1900-1925)

Nelly Omar - SINGER (1911-2013)

Pepita Avellaneda - SINGER (1874-1951)

Tita Merello SINGER (1904-2002)

Libertad Lamarque - SINGER (1908-2000)

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Tango Musicality/HistoryMakela TangoMakela Tangocarmencita calderon, tita merello, ada falcon, pepita avellaneda, paquita bernardo, nelly omar, libertad lamarque, women in tangoComment