We’re learning a bit about the Argentina tango this week in our online class. Tango is a partner dance that developed in the 1900s in towns along the border between Argentina and Uruguay, then rose as a distinct genre of music and dance in the steamy nightclubs of Argentina’s Buenos Aires and Uruguay’s Montevideo. The musical genre and the dance that personifies it both fuse a variety of European dances and styles of music (the Spanish contradanse, Cuban habanera) with African-inspired rhythms and dances, such as the Afro-Uruguayan candombe. No shame that in your living room the Argentine tango will look more like the 2nd photo than the 1st.
