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GIORGIO'S HOUSE
Beautiful Bed and Breakfast in the Heart of Buenos Aires
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GIORGIO'S HOUSE
Beautiful Bed and Breakfast in the Heart of Buenos Aires
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The Tango
First appearing in the 1880's, tango has developed and grown into one of the most popular dances in the world. Now people can experience it's whole essence, it's melodramatic lyrics and movements in Buenos Aires and many other cultural centers in the world.
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Tango is a musical genre and its associated dance forms that originated in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay, and spread to the rest of the world soon after that.
Early tango was known as tango criollo, or simply tango. Today, there are many tango dance styles, including Argentine Tango, Uruguayan Tango, Ballroom tango (American and International styles), Finnish tango and vintage tangos
the word tango is older than the dance itself and that by 1803 it would appear in the Real Academia Española dictionary as a variant of tángano, a bone or rock used to play the game bearing the same name
The exact origins of tango—both the dance and the word itself—are lost in myth and an unrecorded history. The generally accepted theory is that in the mid-1800s, African slaves were brought to Argentina and began to influence the local culture. The word "tango" may be straightforwardly African in origin, meaning "closed place" or "reserved ground." Or it may derive from Portuguese (and from the Latin verb tanguere, to touch) and was picked up by Africans on the slave ships. Whatever its origin, the word "tango" acquired the standard meaning of the place where African slaves and free blacks gathered to dance.
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Known as El Zorzal Criollo, the songbird of Buenos Aires, Carlos Gardel is a legendary figure in Argentina. The charismatic French-born singer's career coincided with the development of that intrinsically Argentine cultural icon, the Tango, the music, song and dance of Buenos Aires' tenements - arrabales
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The music of Astor Piazzolla epitomized our situation in the modern world with his fusion of folkloric beauty and contemporary tension. He forged a new music that challenged the traditionalist and left the adventurous craving more. He took the music of the great tango masters like Garde, ripped it away from the velvet-walled concert hall and the soft-cushion drawing room, and slapped it down on the pavement of Buenos Aires.
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Although it seems now to be the only possible hold for couple dancing, Tango is only the third dance in history done with the man and woman facing each other, with the man holding the woman's right hand in his left, and with his right arm around her.
The first dance done in this hold was the Viennese Waltz, which was a craze across Europe in the 1830s. Couple dancing before the Viennese Waltz was formal, with couples performing choreographed steps, and generally with no more physical contact than holding hands - if that (although some Renaissance dances like la volta could involve surprising levels of intimacy).
The second couple dance to use this hold was the Polka, which became the fashion in the 1840s.
The third dance, Tango, was radically different from anything that came before it because it introduced the concept of improvisation for the first time, and was a huge influence on all couple dancing in the Twentieth Century.
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TANGO: Dance Between Men: After the European immigration was set in motion in Buenos Aires street dancing was left to men only, because it was not appropriate for women to be seen dancing on the streets.When tango appeared as a dance form it was only allowed in the "prostibulos" and "conventillos", the men as way to improve their dance skills, and not to become marginalized as bad dancers (pata duras) danced between other men on the streets. Dancing on the streets became "the practica" before they went to "conventillos" and "prostibulos" to dance with women. In 1910 the cafes in Buenos Aires began allowing dancing in their premises. However some of these cafes had a bad reputation and women would not consider attending such places, such is the case of cafe "La Red" in San Telmo, where dancing between men was allowed
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The Spirit of Giorgio's House is to be....Friends first of all. :o)
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