Origins of Villa Urquiza Style - Gerardo Portalea y Susanna

[MullerPatricia]

that is history, thanks for sharing!!!

[intemojligt]

Perhaps Sebastian made the music for Mickey Mouse-pictures.

At least the cymbals.

[LosTangringos]

Watching this is an emotional experience. It gives you the feeling that you could dance like that...a worthy goal, indeed.

[sirprenante]

he's ADDING to the melody,singing a love song to his partner with his body.He has a musicians soul,and as with all true tango, he dances for her,and not for the audience.

[pugliese48]

Climaco: sos un ídolo. Le pusiste la tapa a ese chanta!

[minadoro]

me derrite!

[RaulClimaco]

Seabastian, if u r a real musician, here's a difficult "exercise". Lay out a 4 part score with melody, accompanyment outline, her feet, his feet. It will change your life, if you can handle it. Do it for Pupi Castelo too, even better.

Dancing to the melody: nonsence imported from theater arts. Usually means in practice "dance w/out regard to the music". U can make it mean something about phrasing (try to find Gavito on phrasing) but why bother. Dancing is playing MUSIC with your body.

[MiSebastianT]

Actually, that's what I do for a living. What about you?

[RaulClimaco]

Discussion below is so absurd it's almost funny. Between accusing Portalea of not dancing to the music (!!!!), bringing up again the old nonsense of dancing to "the melody", and telling us about real, non-export, tango the Devil may choose. Asking Nito and Gustavo about Portalea ?? I might have had a question or two for Portalea concerning just about anybody else !!

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[MiSebastianT]

Obvious, you are not a musician.

[MiSebastianT]

Obviously, you have yet to have asked Nito or Gustavo, or another reputable maestro.

You're right, my dancing is not spectacular, but I assure you I never dance off the beat like these people.

[MiSebastianT]

So part of this style is to dance off the beat? (sarcastic)

[victormadriz]

Exactly..!!! over the melody...that means so deep into the beat...(sarcastic too...!!)

[MiSebastianT]

That's bullshit. He's not even following the contour of the melody.

[banlun]

So far out you have to dig deep. Portalea is a mythic milonguero. He had a crush for rhytm but in the way of jazz. Off beat can be a way of life.

[tang0ang3l]

your comment shows that you don't get what tango's about. You look but you don't see.

[MiSebastianT]

Shut the fuck up. I am both a dancer and musician of tango. Ask Nito or Gustavo if such a thing is correct. They will tell you: NO.

[tang0ang3l]

by the tone of your reply, I'm confident you are neither. At very best, a mediocre musician and a worse dancer.

[iwanxxx]

@MiSebastianT I asked one of my teachers about Portalea's way of dancing/musical intepretation. He told me that all the old milongueros danced in their own way. Nobody taught them that something is correct, or not correct, they didn't pay attention if something is in accord wiith "Urquiza style" or whatever. They just danced the way they felt for a very long time. Portalea's musicality was his own undeniable off-beat-cadencia feeling that you can't judge by others' measures.

[solaenbaires]

This is the real TANGO... the one danced on the neighborhood clubs, not the one showed FOR EXPORT...

Tahnks for posting this wonderful show.

Este es el tango real... el que se baila en los clubes de los barrios, no el que se muestra a los turistas para exportar...

Gracias por publicar este show maravilloso

[zmalosej]

Wow this is club Sin Rumbo, in Villa Urquiza. I didn't recognize it at first. I was invited there by it's host Julio Duplan when I was in BA. A really cool milonga. With lot of old tangueros. It is obviously a place of enormous tradition.

[damianeze]

el nombre de la bailarina es susana, y es la mujer del dj, oscar marcelo....el baile de portalea es sobervio,suave, emosionante,ahora estara bailando junto a todos los otros grandes del tango.

[untropezon]

Gracias Ney!

Te falto el nombre esta bailarina. No nos olvidemos de las mujeres! Esta senora tiene una suavidad de movimiento, sobre todo en las caderas, que es un lujo.

[PlanetTango]

Que en paz descanse sin pena y con gloria don Gerardo Portalea.

Su fecha de fallecimiento es a principios de junio de esta año.

[twherreman]

Indio Manso by Carlos Di Sarli, 1958

[milongadelcorazon]

May I know the name of the song? Should be late di sarli right?

[SentirtangoDotCom]

and please let me know if you post more of Portalea!

[SentirtangoDotCom]

Thank you so much for sharing this :-)

A member of SentirTango opened a topic in our forum, giving a small hommage to Gerardo, and I was looking for some videos to link from there.

un abrazo

NiCo of SentirTango

[amorfica]

Si hay un paraiso milonguero...seguro que Portalea esta ahi.

[elcachafaz]

¡Qué tesoro! Gracias por compartir estos videos con todo el mundo.

[jaijeffcom]

Ney,

Gracias por poner este video de Portalea. Desde hace mucho tiempo me gusto a él através varios documentarios, pero no sabía su nombre. Y ahora tenemos que llorar la perdida recién de él.

Jai

[irenekyho]

Dear Ney,

Portalea's musicality is astounding. Thanks for posting this wonderful video! Will you be posting videos of Fino Rivera also?