Pepito Avellaneda. Real name: Monteleone, José Domingo Dancer (30 November 1930 – 29 April 1996)

Pepito was a world famous dancer know for his creativity, musicality and exceptional milonga dancing.

Here a few quotes from an interview about his life, career and tango from an interview on todotango.com please find below the link to the whole article.

Dancing is everything for me, I feed on it. I dance and I am nurtured.

Milonga, for me, is my life. Others make it like a trade. I don’t, I grow with it. That is the difference. There are those who learn to make money. And others that learn because they like dancing

In their inner self they like tango. They feel it, they feel it, and Diego looks at me from head to toe. All the movements, the placing of feet. And that is very important. It’s very important. But there are other kids, you know, they learn it to say I travel and get dollars, nothing else. But there are a lot of kids that like it. Here´s Pugliese’s son, Pablo. Pablito, is eleven years old and he’s mad. He likes it, he feels it. How can an eleven year-old kid like so much tango dancing, milonga? I brings back memories to me. It’s very nice to see them dancing that way. They want to dance. They feel it. He dances either with a young girl or with an elderly lady. Whoever she may be. And he is a very capable boy because he leads. That is to say that tomorrow he’ll be a future milonguero. Not a dancer. A future milonguero.

To dance tango orillero (tango from the outskirts), then, Juan D’Arienzo. Because of the beat. But I also enjoy the smooth sliding beat of Carlos Di Sarli, Osvaldo Pugliese. They’re different musics. To dance slowly is very difficult. Because you have to convey the theme, the cadences, the pauses. Do not play a non-stop dance, it’s not something continuous, you look, look, but you don’t see anything. In other words, there is no transmission. Instead when you add a soft cadence, tango is poetic. It is poetry.

For full interview text see: https://www.todotango.com/english/artists/biography/658/Pepito-Avellaneda/