Carlos Gavito Quotes

#1. I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music ... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

Carlos Gavito

#2. A good dancer is one who listens to the musicWe dance the music not the steps. Anyone who aspires to dance never thinks about what he is going to do. What he cares about is that he follows the music. You see, we are painters. We paint the music with our feet..

Carlos Gavito

#3. The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence.

Carlos Gavito

#4. When you dance with a partner you are close and the dance is very suggestive, but it is not personal ... Close is what the music inspire you to become. The embrace looks personal, but what we are actually embracing is the music.

Carlos Gavito

#5. The important thing is to know why we want to dance. We dance a solitude that we have inside us and cannot occupy with anything. This gap, that emptiness to which we put movement is the TANGO.

Carlos Gavito

#6. Tango is about feeling and sensitivity, otherwise you are just doing gymnastics. You can do all the steps but it has to have the feeling and sensitivity of authentic tango.

Carlos Gavito