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Dance
Aloff, Mindy | August 31, 1985 issue

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The article focuses on the theatrical production "Tango Argentino." Although just half of Tango Argentino's thirty-five songs were choreographed, the dancing was crucial to the sophistication and pace of the whole event. The tango's musical origins are obscure: one theory traces it to a Spanish-Indian ballad, another to a drum tattoo by African slaves. Tango Argentino keeps its focus on shifting dance values. The penetration of one dancer's walk by the advancing leg of another is a staple of the tango, but Tango Argentino places it in so many different circumstances that the step is divested of fixed meaning.

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TANGO Argentino (Theatrical production); CHOREOGRAPHY; DANCE; MUSIC; ARTISTS; BALLET
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