Gaucho dances

The dances are zamba, slow and sad and happy, which is danced in pairs, and waving a handkerchief.  This movement is called “Florio” cat and chacarera, and is more lively and widespread in Santiago del Estero, which related to the dance like the cueca zamba. All of the above dances are for a couple (man and woman), and are instrumented with Spanish guitars, bass drums, and possibly with the violin and piano. The malambo is a fast dance and consists of a tap and improvisation of vigorous figures with feet and legs.

Malambo has duel choreography which shows more skill.  In some places in Argentina it  is expressed through the use of skills in dancing and with spears and boleadoras. Some suggest that the current interpretative malambo emulates bellaqueo indomitable when the foal is attached or mounted by a man.

With guitars (called until the mid-nineteenth century archaic “viguela” and then “viola” but it is a guitar and not the instruments themselves vihuela and viola), that were carried out in known payadas pulperias dialogues in verse.

A real competition of wits between two troubadours, there are now competitions instituted payadas.  Since the twentieth century, they no longer have payadas as the main area but pulperias specific  competitions including real rocks. The payadas are often about everyday life, but also have great universal themes and the ability to improvise payador consisted of one or more octosyllable quatrains in verse on the subject that suggested its rival.