Buenos Aires Tango Dancers

by Venetia Featherstone-Witty

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Buenos Aires Tango Dancers

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Venetia Featherstone-Witty

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Tango is a dance that has influences from European and African culture.Dances from the candombe ceremonies of former slave peoples helped shape the modern day Tango. The dance originated in lower-class districts of Buenos Aires and Montevideo. The music derived from the fusion of various forms of music from Europe.The word "tango" seems to have first been used in connection with the dance in the 1890s. Initially it was just one of the many dances, but it soon became popular throughout society, as theatres and street barrel organs spread it from the suburbs to the working-class slums, which were packed with hundreds of thousands of European immigrants, primarily Italians.Many people come to Argentina to learn tango.

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August 11th, 2014

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