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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