Cortina (Tango)

A Cortina (Spanish: Curtain ) is a briefly spieltes piece of music. It is used to milongas, the dancing of Tango Argentino as a demarcation between two Tandas. Then often also changes the music style of a tango block to a milonga or Valsblock.

The duration of a Cortina is between about 5 to 60 seconds; is a common time in the range of 20 seconds. As a Cortina represents a break, it is usually played a bit quieter than the Tandas. In addition, a Cortina is usually played as a non- danceable music. Happy here, for example, jazz, pop or folk used. It is also used for special occasions like Christmas, New Year, Valentine's Day and so on according to occasion Cortina. However, here is very large, the difference from DJ to DJ.

Normally a Cortina serves with his dance partner to stop the dance and return to his seat. The dance floor fills up then not again until the next tanda. In Buenos Aires, this is the rule; in Europe, the couples dancing like more Tandas consecutively together - but you can finish a dance on a polite way here during a Cortina.

After a Cortina the possibility in Buenos Aires with the Cabeceo, the non-verbal request of eye contact, where to meet on the dance floor to a new Tanda.