Intermediate Couples Class “Tango”

TANGO – The style of tango started in the lower-class sections of Buenos Aires, with girls in full skirts and men in gaucho costumes with high boots and spurs dancing “Baile Con Corte”, the dance with a stop. The tango came to both Europe and America around 1910 and was one of the only dances to survive the era of dance crazes, becoming a respectable part of social dancing- coming so far from its lowly roots. Tango has a passionate, dramatic style characterized by a catlike, stalking movement danced to Latin-influenced music full of staccato snare drum strikes and rolls.