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Pelican Resort, St Maarten, NA
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Tango was initially danced in bars, cafes, gambling houses, and quilombos (houses of ill-repute). Later on, “Dancing Houses”, that provided girls for dancing and entertainment, appeared.
Paris, being the center of arts and refinement, slowly made this dancing in “Close Hold” acceptable for the rest of the world. This is the way we dance today…we think of it as the most logical hold for a couples dance…but at end of the 19th century this proximity of the bodies in public was considered to be scandalous. It took many years for the majority of people to accept it.
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The periphery of Buenos Aires contained bars, gambling houses, and brothels where lonely men spent time socializing, drinking, gambling, looking for some “romance” in the company of women of ill-repute. It was here that they tried the steps of new dances: the milonga and then, the tango.
Now we dance cheek to cheek, chests together, legs invading each other’s space, in a long conversation of love and passion, with amagues, hooks, flirtatious looks and caresses, the writing of a prologue to a love story that is soon to follow.
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