The first time we went to Buenos Aires, we were eager to see a number of dancers live.
One couple we would have loved to see dancing in the milongas was Pedro Vujovich and Graciela Cano. They had won the Metropolitano (Buenos Aires city-wide) competition in 2005 and we saw snippets of them dancing in Oscar Hector's Milonguisimo show in a youtube video.
The few seconds we saw of them dancing in the video of the show were totally awesome - their musicality was impeccable and their style completely unique. However, when were in Buenos Aires we didn't have an opportunity to catch them and shortly after our visit we heard that Pedro had passed away.
We have been searching for videos of them dancing every since. We discovered recently their son Gustavo had posted some videos on Youtube of Pedro and Graciela dancing as a tribute to them. Here's one of them dancing an exhibition of Tango, Vals and Milonga:
There are quite a few more videos of them dancing in Gustavo's youtube channel, including videos of them while competing. It's fantastic that we are still able to see these examples of their dancing, it's such a treat.
Confession: Man Yung has been trying to steal Pedro's steps! But he has not been successful. I think it's because Pedro and Graciela's style of dancing formed organically from decades of dancing together and you have to look at it as a whole. It is impossible (as Man Yung has learned) to take out and dissect/steal any one part of it!
We had the pleasure of meeting Graciela once when we went to Club Oeste and Man Yung even had the opportunity of dancing with her. She's a beautiful dancer and we were happy to know that she still went to dance in the milongas.
A short and charming biography of Pedro Vujovich can be found on the Todotango website here.
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