Let's Dance

August 31, 2006 | This article appeared in the September 18, 2006 edition of The Nation.

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In Tango: The Art History of Love, Robert Thompson traces the dance's
roots in Afro-Argentine history. Tomas Eloy Martínez's The Tango
Singer appropriates its music to explore the recent past.

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Marina Harss

Marina Harss is a freelance dance writer and translator in New York. Her dance writing has appeared in The New Yorker,...

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