It is important to mention that several types of tango dance existed then, with only one of them managing to find wide popularity outside of the lower class in a dance that is today referred as tango criollo or authentic tango.
With this term started being used for more types of musical gatherings, it eventually becomes a synonym of the popular tango dance. The earliest written record of the word tango comes from the year , in a colonial government proclamation that attempted to ban these musical gatherings.
In late 19th and early 20th century, tango dance becomes commonplace in Argentinian theatres, dancing halls, and street performances, enabling it to quickly become one of the favorite dances of newly arrived European immigrants who were settling in Argentina.
By early 20th century, many of those immigrants and other Argentinian natives formed entertainment groups that traveled to Europe with a goal of promoting their newly popular partner dance.
They first found popularity in the early s in the City of Light, Paris, and from there Tango quickly reached London, Berlin, and many other European capitals. By the year , traditional Argentinian tango and North American tango settled down into their proper forms, enabling the US dances to enjoy dancing any type of tango dance they preferred. The popularity of Tango dance went through several ups and downs in its native Argentina. However, in between these dark events, tango managed to thrive and was revived several times as a point of natural pride.
Since tango is highly improvisational, personal and impulsive , it is not strange that it has managed to quickly evolve from its traditional form into dozens of styles that are today practiced all around the world. Style of tango is also distinguished in the way the dancers are supporting their center of gravity. In Argentine and Uruguayan tango, dancers first move their chests, and then their feet reach to support them.
Ballroom dancing , however, uses a different style, where feet move first, and then the center body mass moves. Other styles involve differences in step movements, timings, speed, the character of movement and following of the rhythm. The expansion was not fueled this time by lower classes of dancers, but by wealthy Argentine youth who traveled to this hubs of modern society NY in the Americas and Paris in continental Europe and promoted this dance directly to the trendsetters who were craving for any new indulgences and were eager for innovation and change of fashion styles.
Other cities quickly followed, and soon tango was danced across entire Europe and North America , but there were some difficulties. Same as with the appearance of Waltz during the early Victorian era, the introduction of Tango was welcomed as distasteful and too flirty. This sentiment thankfully soon subsided, and high class of people soon started accepting it and promoting it with the exploits of famous dancers and musicians.
With the arrival of Tango to the elegant dance floors of the best-known ballrooms all across the world, maintaining its popularity to today. Tango was well-received in the United States where a brand new style of this dance was also developed.
Usually, it is not even danced to the tunes of traditional tango music and can be enjoyed with other popular music styles. Today, traditional tango and North American tango are both well established and can be danced separately with their own firm dancing rules. After the rise of tango popularity in the s, Uruguay became one of the oldest places where tango was adopted and danced in public. Originally morphed in Montevideo from the influences of Buenos Aires Tango and various black music and dance styles , it eventually moved from the dance halls of slaves, ex-slaves, lower classes, working classes and even gangsters to the dance and theatre halls of Montevideo and other Uruguayan cities.
Tango arrived in Finland in by traveling musicians , where it immediately found great popularity that enabled it to not only stay but morph into a brand new form of Finish tango that has several differences from traditional Argentine or Ballroom tango styles. The defining characteristic of Finnish tango is reliance on minor keys, which closely follows the style and conventions of their folklore music, with lyrics being focused on the themes of sorrow, love, nature, and countryside.
When the Great Depression began in the s, tango was not immune. The Depression coincided with the overthrow of the Argentinian government at that time, meaning that the focus of the Argentinian people was elsewhere and few were in the mood for dancing. Tango was dealt another blow when the Argentinian military dictatorship of the s banned public gatherings. Male dancers would traditionally train for up to three years by attending milongas , or public dances where tango music was played.
But with public gatherings forbidden, would-be milongueros found themselves with no where to go — and no way to practice.
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