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Described as Public-domain copy of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) can be watched and embedded from the Internet Archive

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  1. Guardia Nueva8 days agoDescribed as Public-domain copy of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) can be watched and embedded from the Internet Archive
  2. Guardia Nueva8 days agoDescribed as The Four Horsemen (1921) includes a tango danced by Valentino in a Boca bar in Buenos Aires; Valentino's film is credited with popularising the Argentine tango
  3. Guardia Nueva8 days agoDescribed as Hollywood/United States: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) made Rudolph Valentino a star, and inspired a tango craze and fashions such as gaucho pants
  4. Guardia Vieja8 days agoDescribed as Public-domain copy of the 1914 Keystone comedy Tango Tangles can be watched and embedded from the Internet Archive
  5. Guardia Vieja8 days agoDescribed as United States: Tango Tangles, a Keystone comedy produced by Mack Sennett and starring Charles Chaplin and Roscoe Arbuckle, is set in a dance hall. The film is h
  6. Guardia Vieja8 days agoDescribed as New York: after Bonnie Glass retired, the restaurateur Joe Pani hired Valentino to dance the tango with Joan Sawyer; they toured eastern cities on the B. F. Kei
  7. Guardia Vieja8 days agoDescribed as New York: in December 1914 Valentino was hired as exhibition partner by Bonnie Glass, and they first performed at Rector's and then her Café Montmartre, which o
  8. Guardia Vieja8 days agoDescribed as Paris: Rudolph Valentino, aged 17, left home for Paris and Monte Carlo and learned the then-controversial tango; he reached New York on 23 December 1913 and wor
  9. Guardia Vieja8 days agoDescribed as New York City: the tango craze reached New York at the end of 1913
  10. Revival8 days agoDescribed as Seinäjoki, Finland: the Tangomarkkinat (Tango Festival) began, with a Tango King chosen in a song contest
  11. Nuevo8 days agoDescribed as Finland: 'Musta ruusu' (Black Rose), recorded by Veikko Tuomi and written by Pentti Viherluoto, is held to have started the tango fever, as the first tango on t
  12. Guardia Vieja8 days agoDescribed as Helsinki: the music-hall singer Iivari Kainulainen mocked the tango craze with his recorded 'Tanko-laulu', the first Finnish tango parody
  13. Guardia Vieja8 days agoDescribed as The first Finnish tango was written by Emil Kauppi in 1914 for the film Salainen perintömääräys (The Secret Testament)
  14. Guardia Vieja8 days agoDescribed as Tango craze in the biggest Finnish cities (Helsinki, Turku, Tampere, Viipuri) after the matinées; the countryside did not yet know it
  15. Guardia Vieja8 days agoDescribed as Helsinki, 16 November 1913: Hufvudstadsbladet lists T. Niskanen's Tango-matiné at 2 pm among that day's entertainments
  16. Guardia Vieja8 days agoDescribed as Helsinki, 14 November 1913: Toivo Niskanen announced his third and last Tango-Matinée for Sunday 16 November at 2 pm
  17. Guardia Vieja8 days agoDescribed as Helsinki, 14 October 1913: a dance school advertised teaching 20 dances, among them 'den världsberömda Tango' (the world-famous tango)
  18. Apollo operetta theatre, Helsinki8 days agoDescribed as The same notice ran in Uusi Suometar on 12 October 1913: 'jossa annetaan hyvin hauska operetti ja tanssitaan Tangoa'
  19. Apollo operetta theatre, Helsinki8 days agoDescribed as Staged an operetta in which 'Tangoa' was danced, advertised in Helsingin Sanomat on 12 October 1913
  20. Toivo Niskanen8 days agoPerformed at Apollo operetta theatre, Helsinki
  21. Guardia Vieja8 days agoDescribed as Helsinki dance schools offered tango lessons in September and October 1913; the teachers Bertha Corander and Hilma Liiman had learned the novelty in Paris and B
  22. Guardia Vieja8 days agoDescribed as Tango arrives in Finland (Helsinki): it is held to have come in the autumn of 1913
  23. Nuevo8 days agoDescribed as Istanbul: After the 1960s both the Turkish tango and tango in general lost their appeal
  24. Necdet Koyutürk8 days agoDescribed as After the Necip Celal and Fehmi Ege generation, the most popular composer of the Turkish tango (1921-1988)
  25. Özgür Bar8 days agoDescribed as Nightclub in Galatasaray on Yeniçarşı Street run by the tango singer İbrahim Özgür
  26. Istanbul8 days agoDescribed as Istanbul: A wedding in Çankırı, Samsun or Denizli rarely started without La Cumparsita, and the bride and groom were expected to dance it
  27. Istanbul8 days agoDescribed as Istanbul: dancing masters, mainly Armenians and other non-Muslim minorities, opened dance schools in almost every part of the city, and tango was the most popul
  28. Guardia Nueva8 days agoDescribed as Istanbul: English Wikipedia: tango arrived in Turkey soon after the Republic was formed in 1924
  29. Istanbul8 days agoDescribed as Tango arrives in Istanbul through Pera (Beyoğlu); Belge dates it after World War I and gives no year
  30. Miami Tango Role switch Festival - MILONGA8 days agoSchedule night once 2026-11-08 21:00–01:00 (milonga)
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