TANGO COMES BACK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18549, 9 May 1922, Page 5

TANGO COMES BACK

NEW VERSION OF PRE-WAR, DANOBL!^ , _____ -- rev “ After standing on the threshold fjj fijigj ; many months, the tango has suddenly entered;.; our ballrooms once more (states Mr Philip * A 1 J. S. Richardson, editor of The Dancing;; Timed). It is already figuring on the ptb*V' ii grammes of several regular London dances* and three or four competitions hay? been., held which have ‘ aroused a considerable’. < ; amount of interest'in the dancing world. : is a shorn and chastened tango that wg ■, J dance to-day, bearing very little resemblancjyj to the Argentine exotic that we with before the war. Even the lost some of its Spanish tang, but it is 1 ndnfe*S the less fascinating and alluring, apd it afford a welcome relief from the syncopation of the foxtrot and one-step. Before the wax the tango was ft' dance —a dance of many figures and poees—*' I ' a- dance that even in the ballroom never‘em> lively cast off the influence of those etag*..^,; exhibitors who, in its early days, displayed & ■ i its intricacies at the Queen’s, the: Palace} and .the then London Opera House, j: 2 utterly at variance with the unaffected, styles;, of dancing which is the only style -fa fiaj|yi Vi favour to-day. ■ To-day the tango, as danced in Puis :aal / < 4 as reintroduced to ■ London, has discarded V-y its puzzling figures and its ept-to-be-offeosh* J, movement of the hips. It boasts hut fpgr, .j, i distinct movements, and these sjej 'evs}ji L “ I |'; 1 simpler than the four movements of modem foxtrot. It is danced in the' vaJaa,’ 1 ' ' position, the only position in, the r bdllrd«a‘T r that ! the modern dancer will coudesoefid j use, and the dan cere always progress f round, the room. ’’ ; The only movements used in Paris To-opf are the so-called Argentine walk, the’ Pro- ’ menade. the demi-vuelta, (or turn), an'd'tb*"' pas do la dentelle (or lace step). Hie step* aw» done in an effortless way with;.fofrty stiff knees, and also without pauap* r/ . They are so simple that an'average danokrehouM. v he able to learn them in a couple of tossotai' - . and then after one or two practicea.;!**- nKfebJ to amalgamate them successfully. They-m**./? be taken in any order, and although; they h 7 f ; are only four in number the good dancer .wtil.ll , mix these four so cleverly that to thejcasnsi. n -' ■ observer they appear to be unending, ~ r.ltc.f '' At come of the dance clubs wfion tango- has, been played it has been ( ",^eotjg|| r , four and five times. 59 ,»}V