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  2. Roberto Fontaina7 days ago17 facts added.
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  4. Electronic and festival era7 days agoDescribed as Warsaw: in 2004 Jakub Korczewski opened the Złota Milonga in Warsaw and began the first large-scale group classes; in 2010 Poland's first tango orchestra, Bando
  5. Revival7 days agoDescribed as Warsaw: post-war Polish tango revived in autumn 1998, when David Mason and Paulina Policzkiewicz started tango in Warsaw; the first post-war milonga, El Corazón
  6. Guardia Nueva7 days agoDescribed as Warsaw: at the 1934 'Latarnia' ball of the Society for Blinded War Victims in the Hotel Europejski, a tango competition was held; second prize went to Zuzanna K
  7. Guardia Nueva7 days agoDescribed as Warsaw: people danced tango in the Kawiarnia Adria, founded in 1931, where Eduardo Bianco's orchestra played
  8. Guardia Nueva7 days agoDescribed as Poland: Stanisław Ratold recorded a Polish version of Tango du rêve (music Édouard Malderen) on Beka Grand Record in 1922; by 1925 tango was as popular in Polan
  9. Guardia Vieja7 days agoDescribed as Warsaw: Aimé Lachaume's Régina-Tango was danced in Warsaw in 1913 by the seventeen-year-old Pola Negri and her partner Edward Józef Kuryłło, who also appears wi
  10. Guardia Vieja7 days agoDescribed as Warsaw: the eve of the premiere, Kurier Poranny announced that from tomorrow Messalka and Red would start to teach merry Warsaw how to dance the tango, which ca
  11. Guardia Vieja7 days agoDescribed as Warsaw: on Tuesday 28 October 1913, in the operetta Targ na dziewczęta (Leányvásár) at the Teatr Nowości, Lucyna Messal and Józef Redo danced one of the first t
  12. Nuevo7 days agoDescribed as Berlin: Angelika Fischer and Brigitte Winkler opened a tango dance school in Berlin a year before Lange's, making 1984 the likely year
  13. Revival7 days agoDescribed as Berlin: Juan D. Lange opened the Tango-Bar in the Metropol-Theater and in 1985 his own dance school, Estudio Sudamerica; a year earlier Angelika Fischer and Bri
  14. Nuevo7 days agoDescribed as Berlin: tango gained a foothold again in 1982, after Paris's Trottoirs de Buenos Aires opened in 1981; the Horizonte festival invited Piazzolla and Mosalini to
  15. Guardia Vieja7 days agoDescribed as Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm II and the King of Bavaria forbade their officers to dance the tango in uniform (de.wikipedia, undated); the Dutch press dates it to Nov
  16. Guardia Vieja7 days agoDescribed as Bavaria: in December 1913 King Ludwig followed Kaiser Wilhelm and ordered his officers by confidential cabinet order to keep away from parties where the tango w
  17. Guardia Vieja7 days agoDescribed as Berlin: on 2 December 1913 a Berlin letter reports that the Kaiser forbade officers to dance the tango in uniform, that civilian-dress lieutenants could dance i
  18. Guardia Vieja7 days agoDescribed as Berlin: in November 1913 a Kabinettsorder of the Kaiser asked officers of the army and navy to dance neither the tango nor the one-step or two-step, and to avoi
  19. Guardia Vieja7 days agoDescribed as Berlin: tango teas began at the Cumberland Hotel on the Kurfürstendamm; Thalia-Theater staged the operetta Die Tango-Prinzessin by Jean Gilbert, and tango numbe
  20. Guardia Vieja7 days agoDescribed as Berlin: the tango is the great amusement of the winter of 1913; Berlin's theatres and circus rewrote programmes around it, tango teas began, and shops sold tang
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