Learn about the Argentinean Culture. Tango, the most passionate dance.

The tango is an improvised dance result of a fusion of rhythms that include the milonga, candomble, the habanera, the Andalusian tango, the couplet and payadas.

It was born in Montevideo academies in the late nineteenth century. It was a popular dance performed by black hoodlums. It then moved to the suburbs of Buenos Aires, that fuzzy line between country and city. Gradually gained blocks to the center. The dance was developed in various scenarios: brothels (later called peringundines), tenement near the port and cafes.

The upper classes, far from these places, they created their own space to dance: the dance halls as the exclusive Jockey Club, Rural Society and the Progress Club. Each scenario was changing the various forms of dance "feeling sad." The tango was becoming outskirts tango salon. It was then taken to the great halls of Europe. So the tango evolved from a underground dance to become a stylized class dance .

The tango was originally a dance in which the individual showed hoodlum standing in a corner, their skills to friends and ladies.
Then it was a dance partner but exclusive of men. Only later they were joined by the peringundines prostitutes. Women in poor neighborhoods just accept the ball from the year 1904.

If we ask what is to dance the tango we can define it with words of Horacio Ferrer: "Dancing the Tango is to the soul to dance ... Dance is a hypnotic Tango walk, be one another in an instant. "

Tips to tango

1. The invitation to the dance is through pitching. The man does from a distance, a gesture with his head.
2. Once on the track, wait one or two bars before the first move.
3. It is important to note the movement on the track. It should be dancing in a counter-clockwise.
4. The track is divided into lanes. Dancers who are beginners should be placed in the inside lanes.
5. In tango you walk in a mirror, when the man moves forward, the woman goes back.
6. There must be a good connection between partners. The embrace is the connection, bodies are transformed into an indivisible unit.
7. You should maintain good communication. The man is doing the dialing. Women must "let go."
8. It is important to listen to the music, the body must keep pace with the instruments.