Jesus Albornoz, maestro milonguero.

Dancer, actor, with 22 years teaching, milonguero embrace gives lecture on, cadence, the guide and be guided on the track. And still it surprised with that mystery: what happens when two people are dancing.

Por Sergio Kisielewsky

When I was a boy, Jesus Albornoz danced the tarantella watched and double step in clubs and building societies. One of his sisters danced different rhythms, until he got caught the dance forever: the two-four. Born in Entre Rios, when he discovered the milongas in Buenos Aires, and there he stayed. Proud creditor title “tango teacher”, make 22 years who teaches, and he says he plans to continue for many more.

-Why do people want to dance tango?

-Because it's contention. In embrace they contain each other, It is something that no other dance. It is very close to tango and I think that's what was all the rage in Europe and the world: they dance so cuddled, and with such figures as they usually do the dancer and the dancer. It is a time to share only two, even though there are people who dance around. It is a world created between two people. For this there must be a technique first, and a theory, to develop later in practice.

-embrace the importance of always points, why?

-It is a thinking man, passing through his body and transmitted to women, running. The woman in tango is not at all a subject, It is a thinking man performer. Man guide, but it is not a sexist notion, While it is true that it is a game that created man, and it is he who sets the rules.

-And it is serious play ...

-Clear, why I do not like to see that when they dance the tango, talk to each other. It is spoken with the body! And it's very difficult for a tango milonga will take advantage of women, respects.

-Is also important the famous “sway” in the first eight steps?

-The swing is a cadence, but beware. I talked to a guy who never danced anything at all and made him difficult, I told him that as how to support the foot, there will be cadence. Treading has two positions, first and second in the same foot. Cadence usually occurs when one supports the fingertips, will metatarsal pad and low inadvertently to heel. The heel is the last thing down on the foot of man.

-Is it resembles classical dance?

-Classical dance is over metatarsus. I tell women to dance with the metatarsus it stiffens the body, and thereby man receives it as a weight. It must be flexible, but without externalizing too hip woman. I respect women time to dance, waiting. Because if the man I suggest eight forward or backward, you have to do is wait. You can not interrupt her until she finishes what he "commanded" to do.

-Is there any chance that women lead men in dance?

-You can guide your body. There are men who go to the middle and I call “the Bermuda Triangle”: hence he does not get more. So it's good to dance in the opposite direction clockwise, but there is a position that is dance 45 degrees to round the track, make round. Thus the body of the person will “rounding” track. It's amazing what happens when two people meet. And it is very difficult to re-form a pair of tango when one was left by the previous couple, with much-understood.

-Because you get used to other forms of dance?

-Tango is energy, energy is provided and the two are understood. It's like a portable radio with two batteries, not work with. That is the contact, touch to be taken so that there is expression and harmony. The woman has a great memory in your body and is "located" on its left side, between the lung and the kidney. If man can play that space, that place women, understands perfectly. I do not know what to, but that's how it is. Others say it takes two people to dance, as long as they wait. The secret is not to rush and perceive motion, the output is about and make the other. We must be very watchful waiting, feel and feel. And the man has to know what he wants. It's like a movie projected ranging between two.

-Is there an ideal amount of time to tango?

-Tango has three minutes, Some, two half minutes. It's what infatuation lasts, the embrace between two people, it feels. Sometimes it feels the heartbeat of women in one's chest. I listened, This is an orchestra that marks all those breaks (It makes listening to tango “The butterfly”, Celedonio Flores, by the orchestra of Osvaldo Pugliese). I was fortunate to dance with many orchestras, I started when I was going to see the orchestras where the cantor sang the chorus only. All tango is not singing, because it was a milonga.

– Sometimes men feel a little awkward and women Pisa, suddenly dulls dancing. Does the lack of technical breaks the link?

-When you dance with women, the reality is that no longer the protagonist to becomepartner. There is a guide arms above the leg movement. If respects, will never step on the other person.

-And when is the reverse, and is the woman who has no technical?

-How to relate to a girl who can not dance he is with arms. The thought goes through his right arm, there expands, and then it communicates what you want to do the other person. This is not something mechanical, It's all very mysterious. Today I worked with someone who had never danced. To blindfold him and was walking with the heel, That should not be done. The idea is to support all the foot and half foot, but always forward. There is the cadence, If whole foot flat, no cadence. Tango is posture and balance. To me what I love in a milonga is to look at the feet and legs of people, they feel communication between steps when the two know expected, respect the times of the first otro.Tiene, a middle and an end, in that it looks like our life.

-Is it true that tango began to be danced between people of the same sex?

-Yes, because the woman did not dance back in 1900. We saw it in many movies, was not well seen that the woman dance tango, It was procaz. There are pictures of the men working at the port and there danced the tango. right shoulder played with one another, not to touch her private parts. Many years passed until she began dancing the tango.

-The tango was associated with a dance origins Brothel. It was like this?

-They say it was a first source among the slaves who drove trucks. While they waited for their masters, They played the bongo two or three hours that lasted the appointment of his employer. Thus begins danced, but long before starting to run the tango music, the song.

-Is there an exact time when the dance came?

-It was along with music and song. Because there was other music, habanera, for example.

-According to his experience, Did it change the way tango, influences the place or area where dance?

-He changed the way of dancing. He began bailándose one orillero tango, Canyengue, because more side danced. Y, as we said, Man began with man, they practiced or played in slaughterhouses, in free hours in the workplace, It was a recreation. They also changed the dancers, There are no longer compadritos! (laughs). They say there were places on Liberty Street where they sold clothes, shoes, and sometimes the number was younger. And there say that the figure emerged from the compadrito, for his walk.

– Milongas are very heterogeneous in composition, in your audience, none is equal to another. There is something for tourists, popular there… How do you see this diversity?

-Many dancers who dream commercialized “Pint of Carlos Gardel” (laughs). There are ladies who contract their services to dance,They take them to Europe to dance only with them. That's something I do not like it, be hired to dance with one person, I will not close. I have students who contract, but let them dance with others, other. They are decisions of each and everyone is well alive as you think.

-There are very popular tango lyrics and once with a high poetic. Does that affect the way a milonga dance?

-An instrumental dance in a way, a singing tango, of other. If sung must be followed to the singer, the dancer does a wait and follows the story of the tango. yes: There is nothing cuter than dancing with a live orchestra. And listen. Before the first tango is not danced, it sounded.

-What were the times when there was less diffusion of the tango?

-I danced up 1964, because next year I started working as an actor at the Theater of the People, and I took up dancing in years 80. Many blame the Club of the Clan, I not think it was so. Milongueros we gave place to the world of rock since 1956, When it importing opened in Argentina and went all, We coexisted between performers of different musical genres. Beyond that, I think that for political reasons some governments were not conducive caking many people in one place.

-What do you enjoy most about teaching tango?

– He spent many people these 22 years teaching. I like to teach the tango who are starting, those who already have some experience often have “vices” which they are very difficult to remove. Sometimes it is said: no, It is a hard leg, You will not ever turn… It's not like that. We must work with the difficulties that present themselves. It's like in life, if you live life as a learning, another would be the story.

– Have you ever wanted to dance other dance, the classic, for example?

-If you were born again would contemporary dance, but the tango would not let him. It is indescribable, It has some mysterious, what happens in that moment when two people meet, and already in the embrace perceive how it will be dancing. Enter tango is peering into a world.

Why Jesus Albornoz

The tango, even with crutches

His father worked in the countryside a few kilometers from Nogoyá, Between rivers, and the owner was paid with vouchers that should change in their own warehouses. That is why Jesus, one among nine siblings, small home saw large bags of sugar, or flour, but money was scarce. A little later his family settled in the area of ​​Tigre and then in the neighborhood of Palermo. When I was a boy, He discovered his passion in a Basic Unit located in John B. Fair and Gorriti, where he was going to take tutoring classes. There also gavetheater classes, and he took advantage of the little Jesus.

While still a boy, he worked in the filmGuacho, Lucas Demare, with Tita Merello and Carlos Cores. He was announcer and actor in the ancient theater of the People. He began dancing in milongas and clubs in the years 50. Currently he teaches for all age groups and for free at the Library of Congress, where they spent hundreds of students. Also in Argentina Actors Association and the Association of Legislative Staff.

In 2012 He had a domestic accident, a fracture exposed tibia and fibula, that cost ten operations and two years without walking. That did not stop him giving classes on crutches, but had to cancel a tour in Germany. He shared for more than two decades the pair of tango classes with dancer Graciela Núñez. He participated in films with ex wife Nancy Allen Brian de Palma-; in Avoid, in Alan Parker, He had a scene with Antonio Banderas.

Source: Página / 12 – 15 July 2019