Saturday 25 August 2007
We stood in line for two and a half hours this morning to get free tickets, and for another two hours this evening to get good seats, but it was worth it - Ryan and I attended the fifth annual World Tango Championship!
It was amazing - the very best tango dancers in the whole word dancing right in front of us. (And for being free, our seats were pretty good!) There were 17 couples dancing - 10 from Argentina, 2 from Columbia, 1 from Chile, 2 from Japan, and 1 from Russia. The dancing was "tango escenario," which is show tango, the "flying tango" as the German girl we met in line put it. The really showy fancy, flip the girl around kind of tango. Very fun. We were just so impressed by some of the incredible moves and the unbelievable fast footwork.
The couple that won was Argentine, and I guess they were really young and new and had learned to dance from their parents.
What really surprised me about the whole thing, though, was the audience. This was not a quiet, serious, dark and tango-ish crowd. There were airhorns and drums, chilean and columbian flags, and lots and lots of shouting and whistling. Not quite what I expected from a meloncholy dance. But Ryan and I were both really impressed - we were so happy to see the winners so happy.
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