The first dancers



If the tango dance developed in parallel with the music and its figures are nourished from the same sources, and imported genres creoles, it is fair to place the first dancers from the creators of the tango. Obviously, the first non-first dancers did not leave records of their names when making a mockery of the black balls on the doors of a candombe or innovate in the figures of a habanera or andalusian tango.
But the oral tradition and some chronic remember names that became famous with his runs, cuts and broken: the Flaco Saul Mariano Cao, great singer and “payador “,  the end and beginning of centuries of Arturo and Juan Filiberto Navas, father of Juan de Filiberto God the author of the famous Caminito. Only the latter two reports are slightly more reliable than mere legend. Filiberto, alias "Mask" was a mason but by the end of the century he regented two houses of dance: the Bailetín of Palomar, near the corner of Suárez and Necochea, and another in Brandza and Villafañe. His son, John of God described as a "cheerful, a little carefree of all things, but simple and good, was easy laughter and humor shone in his eyes and his mouth almost escaped without being able to avoid it. Sang with a pleasant tenor voice and I like listening to it. Dancer by nature, the best boquense tango dancers, and his fame was well known.

In turn, De Navas conditions as a dancer in 1903 were documented in photos published in Caras y Caretas. Just know that he was born in Uruguay Paysandú around 1876 and died in Buenos Aires in 1932.
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