The Argentine Tango is the most passionate of partner
dances.. It started about
130 years ago at La Boca by the harbor in Buenos Aires, the capital of
Argentina. Here immigrants, mostly from Spain and Italy got together
and expressed the suffering and hardships of their lives
through music and song. Later they danced to the music and
Tango was born.. Most men came to
this new land alone without their families, so the first Tango dance
seems to have been danced by two men and it was quite a wild dance. Later
on men danced with prostitutes and the dance form changed to
a male female partner .dance. People called the dance indecent, and
it wasn't quite appreciated
at first, but slowly it started to spread among the lower class workers. In
the 1900s, Tango was introduced to Paris by the wealthy upper class
Argentineans.
This new style of dance where men and women embraced each other,
captured the people of Paris. However the Pope was enraged by this
Tango Fever and forbade the people to dance Tango.. Some Tango dancers and teachers from Argentina
gave a little form and style to this indecent dance and it finally
became accepted
as formal dance and spread all around Europe.
In Argentina during the 1940s, under the labor friendly rule President Peron,
the Tango became more popular
with the general public. This was the golden era of
the Argentine Tango. Since then Tango has continued to increase in popularity
and spread all around the world..
Astor Piazzola introduced new Tango music to different music fields
and got great responses. New dances for the new music and new styles of dance,
are being developed these days.
"Tango Argentino" is a combination of Tango and Ballet
This style has became very successful throughout the world. Also,
the recent production of "Forever Tango", performed on Broadway
has attracted even more Tango fans from all over the
world.
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