HISTORY BIO PROGRAMS EVENTS CONTACT US         HISTORY OF ARGENTINE TANGO Tango is the voice of the Streets of Buenos Aires. Tango was born at about 1880 in bordellos on the back streets of Buenos Aires. At around the same time, a new instrument arrived from Germany, the Bandoneon. Its wailing sound caught the very feeling of the Tango. The lyrics of Tango were written in the language of the streets of Buenos Aires, Lunfardo, a mixture of Spanish, Italian, Native Creole and words strangely twisted. One recalls wasted lives, lost loves, but most of all, the love of Tango itself. In 1910 Tango was introduced in Paris and took Europe by storm. It was so different from the dances of the time that it challenged the conventions of acceptable public behaviour. The true form of Argentine Tango Dance that we see today originated in 1938-1940 with such Tango singer as Carlos Gardel. The Golden Age of Tango took place in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Tango survived, and evolved, thanks to the people of Buenos Aires. More than anything else, the Tango is about connection, empathy between two people, the need to embrace, and be in the arms of another, to escape, albeit for just a brief moment of time, and in that moment, to live a life time. It is seduction or a private conversation, something to be quietly shared and cherished by the two dancers. * from various Internet articles about History of Argentine Tango   © Tango Obsession, 2009 | © Canella Studio Web design