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Article: TANGO REVIVAL.(Buenos Aires's International Tango Festival)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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FROM BORDELLO TO BALLROOM AND THE BALLET AND BACK (ALMOST)
"Pa'que baile la ciudad" ("Let's get the city dancing") was the slogan chosen for Buenos Aires's first-ever International Tango Festival in March 2001. Straightforward enough, and why not, since tango is enjoying a resurgence in the Argentine capital, as it is in Tokyo, Helsinki, San Francisco, and, indeed, any other city where there are wooden floors and sound systems. But in some ways, tango--once called a dance of death has come back from the grave. Its current boom was neither inevitable nor the product of one prime mover or phenomenon. Rather, it resurrected, as many cultural forces intertwined to ...