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Besides determining which dances are performed, these organizations specify many other aspects of their competitions, for instance, the tempo of music allowed and the duration of each competition round. There have been ongoing efforts to include DanceSport in the Olympic Games, with advocates highlighting its athletic and artistic qualities ...
Women's events at the 2012 Summer Olympics (5 C, 136 P) Women's events at the 2016 Summer Olympics (5 C, 146 P) Women's events at the 2020 Summer Olympics (6 C, 153 P)
Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay.The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries from a combination of Argentine Milonga, Spanish-Cuban Habanera, and Uruguayan Candombe celebrations. [1]
[24] [25] The 2008 Beijing Olympics did not include ballroom dancing and neither did the 2012 London Olympics. [26] However, it was announced in December 2016 that breakdancing would form part of the programme for the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics under the "dancesport" label, with men's, women's and mixed-team events included in a one-on-one ...
Forever Tango returned to the United States late in 1994, landing in Beverly Hills, then San Francisco, where it ran for 92 weeks. From there the show went to New York where it became the longest-running tango production in Broadway history. [36] In June 1995, Janis Kenyon held a tango festival at Northwestern University. Kenyon had attended ...
At the age of 99, James McManus embraces his partner and grabs the spotlight when he glides across the floor with his elegant two-toned shoes at the World Tango Championship in Argentina's capital.
The World tango dance tournament (in Spanish: Campeonato Mundial de Baile de Tango, also known as Mundial de Tango) is an annual competition of Argentine Tango, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, usually in August, as part of the Buenos Aires Tango Festival organized by the city's government. In 2014 the events were between 13-26/August.
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