Improve Your Social Expertise By Learning To Dance Argentine Tango
Posted By Brad Aedaems on March 7, 2010
If you do not know anything about Argentine Tango apart of the tons of cliches which many of us have in their minds, you really might ask “What the heck is that fellow speaking about?” Just give me a minute and I will explain.
Perhaps you know Tango only from movies where obscure figures on dim lighted dance floors do bizarre movements, gnawing wagon heaps of roses. Maybe you made up your judgment about Tango having seen ballroom dance competitions, frozen smiles, stiff moves, heads twisting unnaturally with every movement… May be you went to a Tango Show, spectacular, technically brilliant sensual and maybe most galvanizing.
Yet, what has all this to do with social competence? To respond to this questions we have to return to the origins of Tango. Tango started in Buenos Aires and Montevideo at the end of the 19th century. Immigrants from all over the world came to the Rio della Plata wanting a better live.
At the same time local Argentineans from the country came to Buenos Aires and Montevideo also. They had lost their jobs on the enormous haciendas, the dominion size cattle farms, and were trying to find work in the big old city. As both groups competed for jobs, housing and often mere survival tensions were inevitable. On the other hand the clash of the cultures was the cradle of one of the most successful music styles and dances, the Tango.
Tango in its beginning was ( and still is ) a social dance, at that time danced typically by the normal folks, artisans, employees, little merchants… Tango was danced a little differently in the different quarters but in order to dance together all the dancers had to agree upon one common code. One vital part of this code, which is still valid among real good Tango dancers, was the status for each other.
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