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Susana Miller is one of the most prominent teachers, choreographers, and dancers of the milonguero (apilado) style of tango. She introduced term Milonguero Style in the mid 1990's. At that time she was teaching with Oscar `Cacho` Dante. Clarin, the Buenos Aires major newspaper called her one of the four most important figures of the contemporary (2007) tango. She was born in Buenos Aires and is teaching there as well as internationally. "Estilo milonguero" (tango apilado/confiteria style) This style originated as the 'petitero' or 'caquero' style in the 1940s and 50s in closely packed dance halls and "confiterias", so it is danced in close embrace, chest-to chest, with the partners leaning - or appearing to lean - slightly towards each other to allow space for the feet to move. There are not many embellishments or firuletes or complicated figures for the lack of space in the original milonguero style but now also those figures are danced, which only at first glance seem impossible in close embrace. Actually, a lot of complicated figures are possible even in milonguero. Although the rhythmic, close-embrace style of dancing has existed for decades, the term "Milonguero Style" only surfaced in the mid- '90s when the name was created by Susana Miller, who had teaching with Oscar `Cacho` Dante. Many of the older dancers who are exponents of this style (including Pedro 'Tete' Rusconi) preferred not to use the label.