A sad feeling that is danced

Ballroom dancing

The tango dance was before anything else, spontaneous creation of man and woman on prostibulario stage in the suburb of the past, musicians, most intuitive, had to adjust to this new way of dancing and, in turn, created the music that reaches its redemption after the triumph in Paris.

The tango was born as a dance. As a distinct form of dance known as hitherto: Havanans, mazurkas, chotis, milongas ... A very popular product of the suburbs, the scene where the principle was to become the man become the gaucho, then the compadrito and black freedmen who found space in the city. The scenario provided the finding. In the brothel was possible to embrace the couple to stick to your body: face to face, chest to chest, belly to belly, thigh against thigh, pulse to pulse. Horacio Ferrer has believed in that fleeting moment to see that hug the pupil and compadrito a breath of divinity.

"Male and female, he said, tied in the name of beauty, without wanting to rise on their own swill. And anointed artists try the exercise of pure solitude in two. They dance and dance creating what has never danced anyone. It is considered a Byzantine senseless, totally unrealistic to pretend an outline of the choreography and tango figures. The tango was the beginning, in his view, "the most sudden and torn or improvised choreographic creation for a couple that go beyond these respects, to the popular creations of the baroque Spanish or High German waltz."

The dancer is proposed to then intuitive musicians, performers usually guitar, flute and violin, the intensity of the pace with a changing exhibition of images that were created on the fly: the cut, the gorge, the bullfight, the eight, the half moon ... They were the inventors of dance.

History will speak of that riverside tango. Then the "canyengue “ and the smooth or ballroom. Different forms of dance "a sad feeling," according to the definition of successful Enrique Santos Discepolo.

The American writer Waldo Frank had the same impression when he visited the country and did not hesitate to acknowledge that this was "the most popular deep dance in the world." A fellow who shared her surprise, the dancer Isadora Duncan: "I had never danced a tango, but an Argentine boy who was my guide in Buenos Aires forced me to try. In my first timid steps felt my pulse followed that inflammatory languid rhythm of that voluptuous dance, soft like a long caress, as the heady love under the midday sun and the dangerous allure of a tropical forest. "

At this point, tango was no longer hiding its beginnings. The original sin - the cradle of their spurious, had been pardoned by Pope Pius X and the seal of quality had been imposed in Paris, in the most aristocratic salons of the city of light, children of either the category of Vincent Madero, "Macocos "Lopez Alzaga Unzué or Bouchard. "It was well said Ulyses Petit de Murat, the puerile nationalistic pride that they had been brought to the triumph of the tango in Paris, which opened to the dance of the banks doors of houses in the Avenue Alvear, of Callao, in Santa Fe, Florida and the fifth of the Tornquist. Tango was smooth - light between the dancers that had a tremendous diffusion in lounges, cabarets and clubs then in the neighborhood to become the most popular dance until well into the nineteen-fifties.