![]() ![]() “I danced the tango but didn’t like the shoes on the market, they were always black and old-fashioned,” co-founder Alicia Muniz told AFP. The store was opened around 20 years ago by two fellow dancers capitalizing on a tango renaissance, after the dance had lost popularity following its golden age from 1940-1955. Luis Beron, shoemaker specialized in making shoes for dancing tango, works in his workshop at the “Comme il faut” store in Buenos Aires. Of course it is our bodies that move… but the shoes are an essential vector, because they connect us to the ground.” A specialist shop in the chic Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires sells the iconic “Comme il faut” brand, mostly to foreign customers. One of the dancers, Mariela Sametband, wrote: “The shoes are to tango what a guitar is to a guitarist, a broom to a street sweeper or a knife to a chef.” “It’s the instrument through which we express ourselves. “And it’s functional: dancing in high heels makes it easier to shift your balance forwards, onto the metatarsal and the toes, which is essential in the tango.” During the pandemic, music therapist and tango teacher Marina Kenny asked a dozen great dancers to describe their relationship with their shoes for an e-book. ![]() ![]() They have to mold to the foot, and one feels that they caress and are caressed at the same time.” A couple performs during the World Tango Championship in Buenos Aires.įor Carla Marano, an internationally renowned professional dancer, “the shape of the leg becomes aesthetically different-better in my view-when you dance in heels. “The shoes are like a license to fly on earth. “When I put on the shoes, I feel like someone does when they put on gloves suggestively to prepare themselves for something intense,” she said. The competition runs from September 6-18.Ī cardiologist and pianist, Schuster has been dancing tango for 20 years. It has to shine, have a beautiful heel, make me feel stronger, more powerful,” said Schuster, 72, a regular at the Parakultural Milonga (local tango hall) in Buenos Aires, where the world championships are currently taking place. “The tango shoe is something very special. There are many elements to a good tango: posture, balance, the male lead but for many elite women dancers, it is the shoes that matter most. These shoes are a veritable “license to fly,” she says. Maria Teresa Schuster changes into a shiny, silver pair of high-heeled shoes and readies herself to climb onto the stage. ![]()
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