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Tango Argentino
Tango is a cultural current originated in the area of the Rio de la Plata (Buenos Aires-Rosario in Argentina, Montevideo in Uruguay), in the last part of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. Tango music and Tango dance were developed together "mano a mano" (hand in hand), as a part of a cultural explosion product of the mixture of several cultures. Of an urban nature, Tango developed as part of the historical biological and cultural mixing between the argentinian folk, pre-immigration ("criollos", indian, african slaves) and the massive european immigration that transformed completely the society from the last part of the 19th century on.
As a dance Tango was born in the "arrabal" (Buenos Aires old neighborhood), where men and women used to dance closely hugged. Forbidden because of its lustful nature, people were obliged to practice it in hidden places until the beginning of the 20th century. It was then that the success of Tango in Parisian night clubs, New York and several latin american countries, impulsed mostly by dancers from the high level classes that frequented cabarets and night clubs, popularized the dance worldwide and made it socially accepted in its country of origin. Very quickly Tango started to be danced in modest and luxurious places all around the world, and "milongas" (neighborhood places where people meet to dance tango) became more and more popular in Argentina and Uruguay.
This dance is constructed with the base of three basic components: "Abrazo" (embrace), a slow style to walk "Caminar", and improvisation. But overall, Tango should be danced as a corporal language, through which the dancers transmit their emotions to the couple. No other dance is able to connect so closely two persons both emotionally and physically.
A common milonguero saying states that Tango is danced just by listening to the other body.
Nowadays several "Maestros" (instructors), most of them argentinians, travel around the world teaching diverse aspects of Tango, different styles and the possibility of creating and improvising. The increasing community of Tangueros around the world nourishes with new cultural influences this fantastic and always evolving art. Nevertheless, the respect and learning from those who have dedicated their lives to transmit, generation after generation, this non-academic language, continues to be the key to understanding how to talk without talking.
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