Tango
Tango emerged in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, among the urban working classes, where European immigrants, descendants of enslaved Africans and local criollos met. UNESCO inscribed the tango of Argentina and Uruguay in 2009, describing a living union of music, dance and poetry.
It reached Europe in the early 1900s, with a first craze in Paris, then London and Berlin. English teachers codified a ballroom tango in October 1922 for 4/4 music at about 120 beats a minute; its staccato action and head snaps, added in 1934, set it apart from the Argentine dance. It is one of the five International Standard dances.
Sources
- Tango (UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, 2009)
- Tango (Wikipedia)
- History of Modern Ballroom (Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing)
Organisations connected with this dance
- Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD), Modern Ballroom faculty
- World DanceSport Federation (WDSF)
- Tango BA Festival y Mundial (Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires)
- Academia Nacional del Tango de la República Argentina
Listed as references; being listed is not an endorsement by or of the organisation.