Tangling Tango Tale

The legend slips in sweat and scent,
Leave the tango alone – for itself is a legend of its own Tango Por Dos of Argentina performed Tango Una Leyenda ( Tango: The Legend ) at Kwai Tsing Theatre at November 19th & 20 th . A closing event of all dance performance form this year’s Latin Passion Festival, it’s no doubt a lustrous treat for Tango lovers. In the performance, passionate response from audience was mainly rooted from exquisite technique and artistic virtuosity of dancers and musicians. While this repertory tried to connect evolution of tango with timeline of Argentina ‘s political history, it seems doesn’t matter after all.Miguel Angel Zotto, the leader of the Tango Por Dos, was the king in the whole performance. His presence on stage was as captivating as a star descending. He controlled the whole stage, of course including his dance partners. You can found every single bit of his soul was “singing” through his superb expression of tango.
As a major style of social dance, Tango is achieved by two individuals, in most cases, a man and a woman. With its sensual music and rhythm, tango is a sort of control game. A classic form to start is a woman retrieves backward with small steps while the guy proceeds forward to lead the pace and set the mood. Man initiates the move and woman listen. Then the conversion starts to unveil in swirling and tangling. As introduced in the early scenes, tango was emerged within “lower” class in Argentina , which male trial members and new immigrants search for sexual passion / pleasure in brothel. It was not the “Cinderella” type of romance like waltz, but a series of intense “give and take” actions mixing desire and struggle, interlacing pleasure and subtle sorrow. This is the “DNA’ of tango‘s unique style .