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TANGO TERİMLERİ
| İSPANYOLCA | İNGİLİZCE | AÇIKLAMA | |
| EJE | AXIS | ||
| ELEVACION | LIFT | ||
| ELEVADAS | Dancing without keeping the feet on the floor. This was the style before the turn of century when tango was danced on dirt surfaces in the patios of tenements, low-class taverns, and on the street. Once tango went uptown enough to actually be danced on floors (wood, tile, or marble) the dancers fell in love with the floor, thus we now refer to 'caressing the floor'. | ||
| ENGANCHE | HOOKING/COUPLING | Occurs when lead wraps a leg around their partner's leg. Leader displaces follower's feet from inside. | |
| ENROSQUE (from enroscar) | COIL/TWIST/ CORKSCREW |
To coil or twist. While the partner does a molinete, the lead spins on one foot hooking other foot behind spinning foot. | |
| ENTRADA | ENTRANCE | Occurs when a dancer steps forward or otherwise enters the space between their partners legs without displacement. | |
| ENREGARME | SURRENDER | To give oneself up to the leader’s lead. | |
| ESCUCHAR | LISTEN | ||
| ESPEJO | MIRROR | To mirror the movement of ones partner as in "Ochos en espejo", a figure where the man and woman both do forward ochos at the same time. |
Pronunciation Key:
In Buenos Aires ‘ll’ or ’y’ is pronounced ‘zh’, almost an English
‘j’;
a ‘qu’ sounds like the ‘c’ in cat;
a ‘z’ is pronounced like ‘s’;
and a Spanish ‘j’ is a hard, throaty ‘h’ sound.