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Described as Buenos Aires: the 2013 Mundial drew 550,000 spectators, and 556 couples from 37 countries competed after qualifying rounds around the world

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  1. Electronic and festival era7 days agoDescribed as Buenos Aires: the 2013 Mundial drew 550,000 spectators, and 556 couples from 37 countries competed after qualifying rounds around the world
  2. Electronic and festival era7 days agoDescribed as Buenos Aires: the Campeonato Mundial de Baile de Tango has been held every year since 2003, in August, in two categories (tango escenario and tango de pista), w
  3. Revival7 days agoDescribed as Buenos Aires: in the 1990s the Tango Investigation Group of Gustavo Naveira and Fabián Salas (later Cosmotango) applied dance kinesiology to analyse Argentine t
  4. Nuevo7 days agoDescribed as Buenos Aires: after 1955 tango evolved towards listening rather than mass dancing, with renewing currents by Mariano Mores and Horacio Salgán already visible fr
  5. Nuevo7 days agoDescribed as Argentina: in 1955 Peronism was overthrown by a coup; many Peronist tango artists, among them Hugo del Carril, Nelly Omar and Héctor Mauré, were persecuted and
  6. Golden Age7 days agoDescribed as Buenos Aires: in 1950 tango was outsold for the first time, by a folk song, 'El rancho e' la Cambicha' sung by Antonio Tormo, 'the singer of the cabecitas negra
  7. Medellín7 days agoDescribed as Medellín: Medellín hosts the Festival Internacional de Tango (Festitango), described as the second most important tango festival in the world, drawing tangueros
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