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Colombian tango champion stars in new musical at Thalia Theater

New York Daily News - Jan 25, 2012
By Graciela Berger Wegsman / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Just ask Colombian dancer Carlos Paredes, who stars with Carolina Jaurena on “Tango 5 Senses,” a new musical opening at the Thalia Theatre in Queens on Friday. Paredes was half of the first ...

Vail's Sonnenalp hosts tango-blues fusion dance lessons

Vail Daily News - Jan 26, 2012
What: Tango-blues fusion dance lessons with or without three-course dinner. Cost: Varies. Starts at $25 per person and goes up. VAIL — It may be cold outside, but it will be hot inside the Sonnenalp on Saturday. The Sonnenalp Resort, in conjunction ...

UApresents: Forever Tango

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Arizona Daily Wildcat - Jan 25, 2012
Over the past decade Forever Tango has returned to Broadway twice and has wowed audiences worldwide, repeatedly breaking box office records. Anna Trebunskaya, international dancing champion and member of ABC's hit television show “Dancing with the ...

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Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman

The Tango dance scene from the movie Scent Of A Woman (1992) where Pacino plays a blind retired Lieutenant Colonel. This is the only time when Al received his Oscar. The music is "Por una cabeza" by Carlos Gardel and the girl dancing is Gabrielle Anwar.

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TANGOCITY: LEARN HOW TO DANCE TANGO IN YOUTUBE LESSON 1/20

These are exclussive Tango Lessons for YouTube fans. Two of the most important Tango dancers in the world, Mora Godoy and Osvaldo Zotto, show and explain us through easy and amusing lessons how to dance this wonderful music.

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Nicole Scherzinger & Derek Hough - Argentine Tango - Week 9

nicole scherzinger and Derek Hough dance to the Argentine Tango

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LA CUMPARSITA - Tango's Most Famous Song ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫

- Tango's Most Famous Song The cafe 'La Giralda' in Montevideo, Uruguay, occupies a special place in Tango history. It was there in the year 1917 that a young Gerardo Matos Rodriguez gave (anonymously) the music score of a tango he had written to the orchestra of Roberto Firpo to play for the first time. Gerardo was then an adolescent (17 years old) who was barely making it as a student in the faculty of Architecture in Montevideo. Was it modesty? shyness? fear of ridicule? who knows why he wanted to remain anonymous? Firpo only knew that the name of the young composer was Gerardo. It was only later that the full identity of the author was known. He was young, educated, well mannered and sensible. He was also a bit naive. He sold for 20 pesos his rights of authorship to the Breyer publishing house. After some moderate success the composition was forgotten. Seven years later, in 1924, Gerardo was living in Paris and he met Francisco Canaro who had just arrived with his orchestra. That's when he found out that La Cumparsita was a major hit. The tango lyricists Enrique Maroni and Pascual Contursi had added words to the tango and renamed it 'Si Supieras'--If you knew. All of Buenos Aires was hearing, dancing, and demanding to buy the score for the tango that was seemingly everywhere in shows, recordings, and broadcasts. Shortly after, La Cumparsita arrived in Paris where, in the full grip of the roaring 20's, people danced charlestons, shimmys, one-steps, bostons, and when ...

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