By keeping tango alive, Argentine people are paying homage to their ancestors, as well as enjoying themselves in the process. It also is a source of deep pride and who can blame them — what a great thing to be known for. People invite one another for several songs and couples all share the same dancefloor.
All dancing is improvised to the music. The people who are around you can shape your experience. When you go to a milonga you get to socialize with people who share the same passion as you, and make friendships for life. When arriving in a new city, many tango dancers immediately try to connect with the local community in order to find a place to dance, a partner for a workshop, or a teacher for a private class.
In effect Tango is about connecting with another person and yourself. If you are looking for a new passion and an activity that will bring you close to people who just like you love to dance, socialize, and express, there are tens of thousands of tango friends waiting to meet you and dance with you. Take the step. A simple way to connect with nearby tango dancers is through Facebook, Whatsapp groups, or through apps such as the Tango Partner app. And to us, Tango is poetic, disciplined, addictive, unpredictable, passionate, authentic… Forget about the stereotype that pretends that men lead and women follow.
Tango is a two-way dialogue. It is about a physical, emotional and spiritual encounter between two people who can communicate wholly without words. Read more about what is Tango to us. Automated page speed optimizations for fast site performance. The core concept of the tango dance revolves around leader and follower , where leader through their embrace gives openings to the follower what to do, and follower then chooses how he will respond.
The end result of this cooperative process can be a highly improvisational dance that fully captivates the attention of both the dancers and spectators. The attire of the tango dancers is also important because it significantly impacts the visual appeal of the dance, most notably with female dancers promoting their elegance and sexuality by performing the passionate tango dance routines while wearing revealing clothing and high heels.
When people think about tango, today they are most likely to think about its modern ballroom type, which has become famous for its focus on high spectator satisfaction and ability to be practiced in a competitive environment. In addition to various tango dancing styles, tango can also be danced to several styles of tango music , including traditional, nuevo and alternative. While the influences of those music styles change the dance, the core number of principles are shared among all types of tango dances.
Musical instruments that can most commonly be heard during a tango dance are the traditional accordion, bandoneon tango accordion , piano, guitar, violin, double bass and a human voice. The history of tango can be traced all the way back to 18th century Argentina where a mix of influences brought by European immigrants, South American natives and dances of former African slaves in their candombe ceremonies brought the rise of the new type of partner dance that was practiced almost exclusively by poor and lower class.
The popularity of this dance grew at a steady pace, especially in the lower-class districts of the cities such as Buenos Aires and Montevideo Uruguay. It is important to mention that several types of tango dance existed then, with only one of them managing to find wide popularity outside of the lower class in a dance that is today referred as tango criollo or authentic tango.
With this term started being used for more types of musical gatherings, it eventually becomes a synonym of the popular tango dance. The earliest written record of the word tango comes from the year , in a colonial government proclamation that attempted to ban these musical gatherings.
In late 19th and early 20th century, tango dance becomes commonplace in Argentinian theatres, dancing halls, and street performances, enabling it to quickly become one of the favorite dances of newly arrived European immigrants who were settling in Argentina.
By early 20th century, many of those immigrants and other Argentinian natives formed entertainment groups that traveled to Europe with a goal of promoting their newly popular partner dance. Same as with the appearance of Waltz during the early Victorian era, the introduction of Tango was welcomed as distasteful and too flirty.
This sentiment thankfully soon subsided, and high class of people soon started accepting it and promoting it with the exploits of famous dancers and musicians.
With the arrival of Tango to the elegant dance floors of the best-known ballrooms all across the world, maintaining its popularity to today. Tango was well-received in the United States where a brand new style of this dance was also developed. Usually, it is not even danced to the tunes of traditional tango music and can be enjoyed with other popular music styles. Today, traditional tango and North American tango are both well established and can be danced separately with their own firm dancing rules.
After the rise of tango popularity in the s, Uruguay became one of the oldest places where tango was adopted and danced in public. Originally morphed in Montevideo from the influences of Buenos Aires Tango and various black music and dance styles , it eventually moved from the dance halls of slaves, ex-slaves, lower classes, working classes and even gangsters to the dance and theatre halls of Montevideo and other Uruguayan cities.
Tango arrived in Finland in by traveling musicians , where it immediately found great popularity that enabled it to not only stay but morph into a brand new form of Finish tango that has several differences from traditional Argentine or Ballroom tango styles. The defining characteristic of Finnish tango is reliance on minor keys, which closely follows the style and conventions of their folklore music, with lyrics being focused on the themes of sorrow, love, nature, and countryside.
The origin of this tango craze can be traced to the first local tango song that was produced in by Emil Kauppi, and first, finish tango tunes in the s and s. While initially Tango was danced mostly in Helsinki, it eventually became popular across the entire country, with several festivals being formed to celebrate the dance.
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