Enganche

Enganche was the second single composition in this collection, also completed in 2000. It's approximately 12 inches tall, stained and varnished, and it has a varnished hardwood base. It was carved from a single block of balsa wood. This sculpture represents a complex tango figure called "enganche", or leg wrap, in which the leader positions himself or herself in such a way as to cue the follower into wrapping his or her own leg over the leader's. The enganche move originated, as tango itself, in the slums of Buenos Aires and Montevideo. It was part of the repertoire of figures used by tango dancers in bordellos in the late 1800s, but it is now performed by traditional as well as contemporary tango dancers all over the world.