"August (weeks 34-35). The Buenos Aires city competition is held near the end of July (week 30) in the capital of Argentina. The competition is held at the beginning of July in Italy and results are reported by the European tango ASD orgranization. The competition is held during May–June in London and the results are usually reported in Tangofolly community network. See also homepage of UK Tango Festival and Championship, Facebook Group UK Branch Tango Buenos Aires Festival and Dance World Cup and Twitter account UK Tango Festival. These results are national tango championships of Italy held annually in the"
"originated in Buenos Aires in the late 19th century. Modern Argentine tango is danced in both open and closed embraces which focuses on the male leader and the women moving in harmony of the tango’s passionate charging music. The tango’s technique is like walking to the music while keeping feet grounded and allowing ankles and knees to brush against one another during each step taken. Body weight is kept over the toes and the connection is held between the man and women in the hips. Ballroom tango, however, is a dance with a far more open frame, often utilising strong"
"are records of 19th and early 20th century Tango styles in Cuba and Spain, while there is a flamenco Tangos dance that may share a common ancestor in a minuet-style European dance. All sources stress the influence of the African communities and their rhythms, while the instruments and techniques brought in by European immigrants in the 20th century played a major role in its final definition, relating it to the Salon music styles to which Tango would contribute back at a later stage. Angel Villoldo's 1903 tango El Choclo was first recorded no later than 1906 in Philadelphia. Villoldo himself"
"Among its leading figures are the singer and songwriter Carlos Gardel and composers/performers Francisco Canaro, Juan D'Arienzo, Carlos Di Sarli, Osvaldo Pugliese, and Ástor Piazzolla. The origins of tango are unclear because little historical documentation from that era exists. However, in recent years, a few tango aficionados have undertaken a thorough research of that history and so it is less mysterious today than before. It is generally thought that the dance developed in the late 19th century in working-class neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay and was practiced by Uruguayan and Argentine dancers, musicians, and immigrant laborers. Argentine"
"Argentina and Uruguay. The dance derives from the Cuban habanera, the Argentine milonga and Uruguayan candombe, and is said to contain elements from the African community in Buenos Aires, influenced both by ancient African rhythms and the music from Europe. Even though the present forms developed in Argentina and Uruguay from the mid 19th century, there are earlier written records of Tango dances in Cuba and Spain, while there is a flamenco Tangos dance that may share a common ancestor in a minuet-style European dance. All sources stress the influence of the African communities and their rhythms, while the instruments"
"reverse and enhance their competences in tango: There is one cliché pretending that tango as a dance was born in the brothels of Buenos Aires, another cliché relates that tango was created by men dancing tango between men on street corners at the beginning of the 20th century: In the first decade of the 20th century, tango became famous as a couple dance (man-woman) in Paris. There are also French and American postcards from the first decades of the 20th century which represent tango between women. This feminine replica of man-to-man-tango generated much less literary documentation, yet a more extensive"
"tango was discovered by Europeans, and became fashionable in Paris, but as a dance between man and woman, in a more ""decent"" style, without """"cortes y quebradas"""". Historical postcards of the 1920s and 30s also show women dancing tango. But these postcards come from cabarets in Paris, and have a particularly masculine, and voyeur accent. In Brazil, homosexuality was legalized in 1830, and kept it legal in the new penal code of 1890. But there were many different laws about public indecency, vagrancy, transvestism, or ""libertine"" behavior that were used to control, and repress homosexuals. But once a year, during"
"arose in the brothels, bars and port areas of Buenos Aires, where waves of Europeans poured into the country mixing various forms of music. The result, tango, came about as a fusion of disparate influences including: That combination of European rhythms, brought to Argentinia and Uruguay by traders and immigrants, developed into the swinging milonga around 1900. The milonga quickly became the popular dance of Buenos Aires and slowly evolved into modern ""tango""; since 1930, ""tango"" has changed from a dance-focused music to one of lyric and poetry, thanks to vocalists like Carlos Gardel, Roberto Goyeneche, Hugo del Carril, Tita"
"with spectators, but not with competition judges. Tango arrived in Finland in 1913. The tango spread from the dominant urban dance form to become hugely popular across Finland in the 1950s after World War I and World War II. The melancholy tone of the music reflects the themes of Finnish folk poetry; Finnish tango is almost always in a minor key. The tango is danced in very close full thigh, pelvis and upper body contact in a wide and strong frame, and features smooth horizontal movements that are very strong and determined. Dancers are very low, allowing long steps without"
"a march instrumental in 1916 by teen-aged Gerardo Matos Rodríguez of Uruguay. Besides the global influences mentioned above, early Tango was locally influenced by Payada, the Milonga from Argentine and Uruguay Pampas, and Uruguayan Candombe. In Argentina there was Milonga ""from the country"" since the mid eighteenth century. The first ""payador"" remembered is Santos Vega. The origins of Milonga seem to be in the Pampa with strong African influences, especially though the local Candombe (which would be related to its contemporary Candombe in Buenos Aires and Montevideo). It is believed that this candombe existed and was practised in Argentina since"
"Finnish tango Finnish tango, or FINtango, music is an established variation of the Argentine tango but whose rhythm follows the Ballroom tango. It was one of the most popular music forms for decades in Finland. Brought to Europe in the 1910s, and to Finland itself in 1913, by travelling musicians, Finns began to take up the form and write their own tangos in the 1930s. The first Finnish tango was written by Emil Kauppi in 1914 for a film called Salainen perintömääräys (meaning The Secret Testament). It features a typical Finnish rhythm pattern with habanera. In the 1920s the tango"
"and techniques brought in by European immigrants played a major role in its final definition, relating it to the Salon music styles to which Tango would contribute back at a later stage, when it became fashionable in early 20th century Paris. In Argentina, the word ""Tango"" seems to have first been used in the 1890s. In 1902 the Teatro Opera started to include tango in their balls. Initially tango was just one of the many available local dances, but it soon became popular throughout society, as theatres and street barrel organs spread it from the suburbs to the working-class slums,"
"and side-by-side choreography. American style tango’s evolutionary path is derived from Argentina to the United States, when it was popularized by silent film star Rudolph Valentino in 1921, who demonstrated a highly stylized form of Argentine tango in ""The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"". As a result, the Hollywood style steps mixed in with other social dance steps of the times began this branch away from the Argentine style. Meanwhile, the tango was also making its own inroads into Europe. Following the English standardization of their version of tango, Arthur Murray, a ballroom dance instructor in the U.S., tried his"
"with dances such as the Waltz. In 1922 guidelines were first set for the ""English"" (international) style of ballroom tango, but it lost popularity in Europe to new dances including the Foxtrot and Samba, and as dancing as a whole declined due to the growth of cinema. As the dance form became wildly popular with upper and middle classes around the world, Argentine high society adopted the previously low-class dance form as their own. In 1913, tango began to move from the dark side of town to elegant dance palaces. In 1916, Roberto Firpo, an extremely successful bandleader of the"
"Tango (play) Tango is a drama written by Polish writer, dramatist and cartoonist Sławomir Mrożek (1930–2013). It was first published in the literary magazine ""Dialog (Dialogue)"" in 1964. In Poland, ""Tango"" was staged for the first time in Bydgoszcz in 1965. The drama has been translated into English, Italian, Japanese, French, Danish, Hebrew, Czech, Slovenian, Dutch, Estonian, German, Spanish and other languages. The play is set in a non-defined time in the home of Stomil and Eleonora, parents of Artur (student of medicine). The place is disorganized not only in the way it is furnished, but also through the complete"
"also hosts dancing competitions, among them Finnish tango. Non-Finnish contestants also participate. Finnish tango Finnish tango, or FINtango, music is an established variation of the Argentine tango but whose rhythm follows the Ballroom tango. It was one of the most popular music forms for decades in Finland. Brought to Europe in the 1910s, and to Finland itself in 1913, by travelling musicians, Finns began to take up the form and write their own tangos in the 1930s. The first Finnish tango was written by Emil Kauppi in 1914 for a film called Salainen perintömääräys (meaning The Secret Testament). It features"
"meet at the with the . In the early years of the 20th century, dancers and orchestras from Buenos Aires travelled to Europe, and the first European tango craze took place in Paris, soon followed by London, Berlin, and other capitals. Towards the end of 1913, it hit New York City in the U.S., and Finland. In the U.S., around 1911, the word ""tango"" was often applied to dances in a or rhythm such as the one-step. The term was fashionable and did not indicate that tango steps would be used in the dance, although they might be. Tango music"
"Uruguayan tango Tango is a rhythm that has its roots in the poor areas of Montevideo around 1880. Then it was extended to other areas and countries. As Borges said: ""...tango is African-Montevidean [Uruguayan], tango has black curls in its roots..."" He quoted Rossi, that sustained that ""...tango, that argentine people call argentine tango, is the son of the Montevidean milonga and the grandson of the habanera. It was born in the San Felipe Academy [Montevideo], a Montevidean warehouse used for public dances, among gangsters and black people; then it emigrated to underworld areas of Buenos Aires and fooled around"
"(Tango in the Buenos Aires Society, 1880 -1920). Lamas and Binda attacked the accepted myth that tango is simply a provocative, sexual dance from the bordellos of 19th Century Buenos Aires. They presented a new history of tango as a social movement originating in the lower and working classes of Argentina in response to the many dictatorships the country has experienced. Building upon this well-documented study, Alberto and Valorie wrote their definitive work ""Gotta Tango"". Upon returning to New Orleans, Alberto and Valorie continued sharing their tango around the world. In 2009, they won the 3rd Annual U.S.A. Salon Style"
"Argentine tango Argentine tango is a musical genre and accompanying social dance originating at the end of the 19th century in the suburbs of Buenos Aires and Montevideo. It typically has a or rhythmic time signature, and two or three parts repeating in patterns such as ABAB or ABCAC. Its lyrics are marked by ""nostalgia"", sadness, and laments for lost love. The typical orchestra has several melodic instruments and is given a distinctive air by the small button accordion called the bandoneon. It has continued to grow in popularity and spread internationally, adding modern elements without replacing the older ones."
"Tango (drink) Tango is a soft drink originating in the United Kingdom, primarily sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary and Malta, first launched by Corona in 1950. The name Tango came from Ivan Colman describing the drink as having a ""tang"". Corona was purchased by the Beecham Group in 1958, and Corona Soft Drinks by Britvic in 1987. Originally, Tango was the name of the orange flavour in a range of different flavoured drinks, that each had their own name. In the 1990s, long after the other products in the range had been discontinued, the Tango brand"
"incorporated into the repertoire used in International Ballroom dance competitions. English tango was first codified in October 1922, when it was proposed that it should only be danced to modern tunes, ideally at 30 bars per minute (i.e. 120 beats per minute – assuming a measure). Subsequently, the English tango evolved mainly as a highly competitive dance, while the American tango evolved as an unjudged social dance with an emphasis on leading and following skills. This has led to some principal distinctions in basic technique and style. Nevertheless, there are quite a few competitions held in the American style, and"
"Naked Tango Naked Tango is a 1991 American-Argentine drama film written and directed by Leonard Schrader and starring Vincent D'Onofrio, Mathilda May, Esai Morales and Fernando Rey. The choreography was created by Carlos Rivarola. Returning by ship to Buenos Aires in the 1920s, a young woman escapes her elderly husband by swapping places with a woman committing suicide. She believes her new life will be that of an arranged marriage but finds it is in fact a ruse to cause her to work in a brothel. The film plays on the association of tango with brothels and clearly alludes to"
"is any space for an intellectual in such community. Tango (play) Tango is a drama written by Polish writer, dramatist and cartoonist Sławomir Mrożek (1930–2013). It was first published in the literary magazine ""Dialog (Dialogue)"" in 1964. In Poland, ""Tango"" was staged for the first time in Bydgoszcz in 1965. The drama has been translated into English, Italian, Japanese, French, Danish, Hebrew, Czech, Slovenian, Dutch, Estonian, German, Spanish and other languages. The play is set in a non-defined time in the home of Stomil and Eleonora, parents of Artur (student of medicine). The place is disorganized not only in the"
"originated sometime in the 19th century the word ""Tango"", but not yet its present meaning. Lately, some artists have incorporated this genre to their compositions, and have also created groups and NGOs of Afro-descendants, as the Misibamba Association, Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires Community. However, it is important to note that the Uruguayan Candombe is the most practiced in Argentina, both due to immigration from Uruguay and to the seductiveness of the rhythm that captivates the Argentines. For this reason they learn the music, dance and characters and recreate something similar. Uruguayan Candombe is played much in the neighborhoods of San"
"of La Cumparsita has taken place in Montevideo since 2007. The Tango Museum of Montevideo currently stands where La Cumparsita was first played, in Palacio Salvo. Famous Uruguayan tango musicians include: Famous Uruguayan tangos include: Borges, chapter ""ascendencias del tango"" pag 37 Uruguayan tango Tango is a rhythm that has its roots in the poor areas of Montevideo around 1880. Then it was extended to other areas and countries. As Borges said: ""...tango is African-Montevidean [Uruguayan], tango has black curls in its roots..."" He quoted Rossi, that sustained that ""...tango, that argentine people call argentine tango, is the son of"
"Tango (Stravinsky) Tango is a 1940 piece originally composed for piano by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It is one of Stravinsky's most recorded works for piano. After settling in Hollywood, Stravinsky was unable to bring the money he earned from his royalties of his works in Europe to America, due to copyright issues and ambiguities. When he found himself with financial difficulties, he decided to write new compositions entirely in America in order to exploit them, with the exclusive intention of making money. Tango, which was the first work entirely written in America, is one of those works. One of"
"In-tango In-tango was a début single of the Italian artist In-Grid. It was released in 2003. The English Version of this song, entitled We Tango Alone, was released in United States, Australia, United Kingdom and other countries. Some songs are played in Asian countries such as the Philippines. The lyrics were written by In-Grid and Marco Soncini, who co-produced the song with Alfredo Larry Pignagnoli. The English version was also co-written by Daniela Galli (also known as Dhany) and Paul Sears. A Benny Benassi remix of In-Tango was also released. The story is about In-Grid who watches a movie called"
"Finns in 1913. Since then tango has evolved in Finland to a distinctive form. Finnish tango as a dance has characteristics that differ from both competitive and Latin American tango(s). There is a close contact in the pelvis, upper thighs, and the upper body. Finnish tango is often taught with a SSQQ (slow, slow, quick, quick) basic step sequence, with QQS or SQQ used for the beguine or habanera parts so often found in Finnish tango pieces, although a skilled dancer might use slows and quicks just as he wishes to match either the melody or the rhythm. Dips and"
"specific way of dancing tango. Rather, it is literally tango as it is danced socially in the salons (dance halls) of Buenos Aires. Salon tango was danced throughout the Golden Era of Argentine Tango (1935–1952) when milongas (tango parties) were held in large dance venues and full tango orchestras performed. Salon tango is often characterized by slow, measured, and smoothly executed moves, never moving against the line-of-dance, and respecting the space of other dancers on the floor around them. The emphasis is on precision, smoothness, musicality, good navigation, and following the ""códigos"" (tango etiquette) of the salons. The couple embraces"
"percussion traditions. Dance in Venezuela Most of Venezuela's dances originated in Europe in the 19th century, but some originated in the Caribbean, and others have African origins. They include the national dance the Joropo, the Venezuelan merengue and the Baile de Tambor. The Joropo is the national dance of Venezuela. It originated in Spain and was most likely brought over in the 19th century. The Joropo consists of 36 steps and is a dance for couples. Baile de Tambor, also known simply as tambor, is a dance of Afro-Venezuelan origins that is danced to the complex rhythms of the country's"
"were introduced. In January 2013, a Tango branded shower gel was launched. A Tango branded hand soap was also launched around the same time. Tango (drink) Tango is a soft drink originating in the United Kingdom, primarily sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary and Malta, first launched by Corona in 1950. The name Tango came from Ivan Colman describing the drink as having a ""tang"". Corona was purchased by the Beecham Group in 1958, and Corona Soft Drinks by Britvic in 1987. Originally, Tango was the name of the orange flavour in a range of different flavoured"
"are no aerials. The annual Finnish tango festival ""Tangomarkkinat"" draws over 100,000 tangophiles to the central Finnish town of Seinäjoki; the town also hosts the Tango Museum.. Argentine, Uruguayan, and Ballroom Tango use very different techniques. In Argentine and Uruguayan tango, the body's center moves first, then the feet reach to support it. In ballroom tango, the body is initially set in motion across the floor through the flexing of the lower joints (hip, knee, ankle) while the feet are delayed, then the feet move quickly to catch the body, resulting in snatching or striking action that reflects the staccato"