12 Facts About Argentine Tango

At the beginning, Argentine tango was rejected by the middle and upper classes who were engaging in ballroom dances including the Viennese waltz.

Only in the decade between 1910 and 1920, Argentine tango started becoming fashionable in the major European capitals such as Paris, Berlin, Rome and Vienna.

Only in 2017, Argentine tango has permanently entered the traditional Viennese balls through the prestigious Technische Universitat Ball, which now regularly includes a milonga in its program.

Argentine Tango's compositions tell us something of our contemporary life and dancing it relates much to modern dance.

In 1983, the dance show Argentine Tango Argentino, staged by Claudio Segovia and Hector Orezzolli, opened in Paris, France, starring dancers Juan Carlos Copes and Maria Nieves, Nelida y Nelson, Eduardo y Gloria, Maria y Carlos Rivarola, Norma y Luis Pereyra, Mayoral y Elsa Maria, Carlos y Ines Borges, Pablo Veron, Miguel Zotto and Milena Plebs, and Virulazo and Elvira.

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In 1985, the French dance show Argentine Tango Argentino transferred to Broadway in New York City.

Argentine Tango's asked a student, George Guim, to become her assistant.

In 1991, Richard Powers started The Stanford Argentine Tango Weeks, inviting Nora Dinzelbacher and two others to teach with him.

The Stanford Argentine Tango Weeks became a popular annual event with 32 instructors teaching at the Roble Dance Hall at Stanford University over the course of its 7-year run.

Forever Argentine Tango returned to the United States late in 1994, landing in Beverly Hills, then San Francisco, where it ran for 92 weeks.

Argentine Tango made video tapes of the lessons he took and translated the Spanish instruction into English.

Out of this experience, "Argentine Tango Colorado" was formed by Tom Stermitz and other tango aficionados from Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins, and a twice-yearly tango festival was organized in Denver.