A few years ago, from the world of tango emerged two young shining stars, the lady was sharp, beautiful, fast and sizzling hot, the guy was elegant, agile, calm and understated; together, they made the nostalgic and romantic music of Francisco Canaro popular again. Their dancing, with a milonguero close embrace, showed the world you don't need gymnastic type movements to wow the audience. You just need love. The couple and lovers were Geraldine Rojas and Javier Rodriguez.
Fast forward till today, they have since separated and found their new dancing partners each. In Buenos Aires, I was fortunate enough to catch Geraldine Rojas performing live in a milonga club called El Beso.
That was a friday night, I just finished a fantastic class with Ana Maria Schapira in Salon Canning. The milonga that followed in Salon Canning was going great. Hsueh Tze was there and I saw many familiar faces whom I knew were good dancers. But I couldn't possibly miss a live performance by Geraldine. So regretably I left Salon Canning and went to El Beso.
I reached El Beso about 12 midnight and I couldn't believe the crowd there. it was a paltry 10 people. El Beso was not known for friday nights milongas. I mean I've been there on sundays and the place is packed. But on a friday night there were more established places to go. However, Geraldine is performing, surely that'll pull a crowd...
130am and Geraldine finally arrives with her new partner, Ezequiel Paludi. Geraldine is a beauty. If Claudia Codega is the ice queen, then Geraldine oozes youthful exuburance and red hot sensuality, without overboarding to crassness.
The performance started at 2am. To a pathetic crowd of 15 people. That wasn't bad enough. The performance was disappointing. With Ezequiel, Geraldine lost that special something. Javier was very fine and elegant. Very often he is so fine that he fades into the background and Geraldine comes roaring to the fore. When they performed 'Poema' in Taipei tango festival 2004, their love and musicality entralled everyone.
But Ezequiel is not that fine. Geraldine is still doing all the awesome embellishemnts and super sharp footwork. But to me it feels like she is trying to make Ezequiel look good. The subtlety and musicality is gone.
At the end of the day, I was a bit disappointed and also feeling sad that we'll never see Geraldine and Javier dance again. Even if one day they do, it'll never feel or look the same. Because they had danced with love. Nada mas.
Just kidding.
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I disagree with your assessment that Rojas/Javier danced better because of "love, nada mas". I believe it has more to do with the fact that they had been dancing together for more than ten years at the time of their performance in Taipei.
Geraldine is now married to Ezequiel Paludi. To say that they do not dance well together because of a lack of love is a terrible thing to say. Tango dancers are human too and it would be very hurtful to the married couple if they were to read your conclusion in your blog that they do not dance well together because of a lack of love. Obviously they would not marry each other purely for professional reasons of having a partner - you can partner with someone in tango without having to marry them. I would expect that they had chosen to marry each other because they loved each other.
Rojas/Paludi have only been dancing together for less than a year. It is tough for dancers to begin over with new partners no matter what level they are, and Rojas/Paludi do not deserve your unsubstantiated mean-spirited dismissal. If they have any defects in their dancing, let us attribute it to the brevity of the time they have been partners and not due to lack of love.