A Type 2 Turn is one of 8 types of turns, it’s the kissin’ cousin of the type 3 turn. Put simply the the Type 2 Turn is a Back Cross (or Forward), Side Step, Forward Cross (or Back).
Up until about 30 years ago, it was the predominant turn in Argentine Tango until Gustavo Naviera and Fabian Salas came along to change all that. But that’s a different story for a different day. The point is that for almost 60 years the Milonguero Turn was ‘THE TURN’ in Tango. And at that time, it wasn’t called a ‘Milonguero Turn’. And that’s primarily because the word ‘Milonguero’ wasn’t used the way that we use it today. It was an epithet! It wasn’t until a certain Female American teacher started to use the term ‘Milonguero’ as a Marketing term to describe what she was seeing in Argentina that the word started to change its status. Decades later the marketing term became a ‘style’ of tango. As a result about 10 years apart, the term Milonguero Turn was applied to this venerable turn that had been religated to the tango dust bin. It wasn’t until the resurgence in Close Embrace Dancing, when the ideas changed to favor ‘Milonguero’ style dancing that the turn came back into favor. And hence we have a Type 2 Turn or a Milonguero Turn.
What does it look like ?