The Styles of Tango
Clive Randewich, November 2001

Salon Style Tango is typically danced with an upright body posture with the two dancers maintaining separate axes. The embrace can be close or open, but it is typically offset

Orillero Style Tango was developed in the outlying neighborhoods around Buenos Aires where there was more space on social dance floors. It adds playful, space-consuming embellishments and figures.

Milonguero Style Tango is typically danced with a slightly leaning posture that joins the upper torsos of the two dancers in a close chest-to-chest embrace while allowing a distance between the couple's feet.

Tango Nuevo looks at tango's structure to find previously unexplored combinations of steps and new figures. It is danced in an open embrace and a great emphasis is placed on each dancer maintaining his or her own axis.

Fantasia (Stage Show Tango) is a combination of various styles danced in an open embrace with additional elements that are not part of the social tango vocabulary.

Canyengue is a historical form of tango. The embrace is close, the dancers typically have bent knees as they move, and the woman does not execute a cross.

This is a condensed version of information sourced at www.tejastango.com.