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'Tango Argentino' Recalls the Allure of a Lost Age |
| Section: THE ARTS / DANCE |
| Author: Gregory Speck |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 1,034 Words, 6,553 Characters |
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For those who find that the contemporary interpretation of popular dancing is often ludicrous and better left to the sights and sounds of futuristic discotheques, "Tango Argentino" might recall gentler days when cheek-to-cheek romance held its beauty and attraction for civilized night owls. Indeed, this legendary if barely known national dance of South America's most cosmopolitan country presents a silent if eloquent challenge to the lurid behavior one sees on the dance floors of the 1880s. The many forms and styles of "The Tango"--that elegant, rhythmic, polished dance of controlled passion, born in perhaps marginal circumstances of 1880s Bueno...
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...rtment, splendid dancing, haunting music and theatrical effect. Those who mistake its smoldering flavor for the crudely erotic should look carefully at the stories of life it tells, for the program is as much a tribute to composer/singer Carols Gardel - among Argentina's most revered popular heroes - as a statement about setting romantic poetry to complex dance steps and suggestive rhythms.
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