Vals (dance)

Tango Vals, Vals Criollo also ( creole waltz - or Valsecito Criollo, creole Walzerchen ), Vals Porteño ( Buenos Aires is often called Porteño, so Buenos Aires Waltz ) or Vals Cruzado ( Crossed Waltz ) called, is one with the Waltz "crossed " dance form of Tango Argentino. Probably brought the dancers who helped the Tango in Paris for its first flowering ( see the history of the Tango), the French musette waltz home with you. This music and the dance tune may have been excluded initially strange for native Criollos (Spanish -born Argentines ); thereby probably also resulted in one of the names: " cruzado " can also mean " crazy ", " twisted " mean.

The steps of the Vals are taken from the Tango Argentino. In the fast pace of Vals is cruzado per clock normally set (unlike the Viennese Waltz ) only one step. It can also be set two or three steps that can be done in safe dancers also opposite to the dance partner to make the dance rhythmically and technically refined ( the steps are then carried out on the beats 1 and 3 or 1 and 2 - according to the music or the taste and skill of the dancers ). In contrast to Tango Argentino stopping patterns and steps are the Vals little used and rather swinging, danced in a continuous flow.

Also in other Latin American countries Waltz variants are located, where they are also Vals Criollo called (eg the Vals peruano ), so that the common in Argentina and Uruguay for the Tango Vals Vals Criollo name can lead to confusion with other Vals- styles.

Its importance as a variant of Tango Argentino receives the Vals by the popularity in the milongas (designation for Tango Argentino Dance evenings ). In addition to the Tandas classical tangos and milonga Tandas (music direction) of the Vals is the third Tango touch which is missing on any tango dance evening.