3688 The Third World Tango Competition
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:56:50 +0000
From: Sergio Vandekier <sergiovandekier990@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: The Third World Tango Competition
The Third World Tango competition starts today in the 'Rural Exposition
premises' in Buenos Aires.
The Newspaper Clarin says : "Tango Passion, a dance in all the languages".
There are more than 400 couples participating. They came from 29 different
cities of the world.
They will compete from today till Sunday 21st. for the first price in two
categories:
Tango Salon and Stage Tango.
During those 10 days there will be a fair, shows and free lessons for
beginners.
There will be 412 couples from 29 cities. Many of them won the semifinals
that were held this year in Italy,Spain, Russia, Colombia, Uruguay, Chile,
Brazil, Japan and australia.
The paper interviewed several participants who talked about how their lives
changed due to tango.
One man from Hungary visited Buenos Aires for the first time in 1988. He saw
older people walking hand in hand and dancing tango and he decided he wanted
to grow old the same way.
This reminded me of my own parents (my father 89, my mother 84 years old)
they met when he was 19 and she was 15, they go to the neighborhood park
(Parque Saavedra in Villa Urquiza) every day in the evening to walk hand in
hand.
A few months ago I went with them, I saw their figure against the sun
filtering through a Rose Gazebo, they were walking peacefully, the sun was
slowly falling, all of a sudden the sprinklers started but they did not
notice the water mist and continued walking hand in hand abstracted in their
conversation.
Later that day we went to the Park museum where Carmencita Calderon (The
partner of the famous dancer El Cachafaz) was celebrating her 100th.
birthday, she recited a poem by heart and then she danced with a young
fellow as it was done in the old times, my parents did the same then
everybody joined in the milonga.
I wish that we all can walk hand in hand and dance tango some day.
With warmest regards, Sergio
