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Article: Tango to Gaucho! Trevor Grove found the true soul of Argentina - on the dance floor and in the saddle.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- May 8, 2004
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Byline: TREVOR GROVE
'DO NOT jig,' said Osvaldo the tango teacher severely.
'The tango is a dance where your feet must caress the floor. It is a kind of walking.'
For two nights and a steamy afternoon in Buenos Aires dance halls, my wife and I, novice tangueros, had tried to make our kind of walking as stylish as that of the couples circling in sinuous complicity all around us.
It was no good. Every time we thought we were getting the hang of it, some smiling local or his niftyfooted partner would lean across and say kindly: 'Don't worry. It takes many years to comprehend the tango.'
This was especially embarrassing for me, ...
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