If you do not know anything about Argentine Tango apart of the tons of cliches which many of us have in their minds, you actually might ask “What the heck is that fellow chatting about?” Just give me a minute and I’m going to explain.

Perhaps you know Tango only from movies where obscure figures on dim lighted dance floors do strange movements, chewing truck loads of roses. Perhaps you made up your judgment about Tango having seen dancehall dance competitions, frozen grins, stiff moves, heads twisting unnaturally with every movement… Could be you went to a Tango Show, impressive, technically brilliant sensuous and perhaps most galvanizing.

Yet, what has all this to do with social competence? To reply to this questions we’ve got to go back to the origins of Tango. Tango started in Buenos Aires and Montevideo at the end of the 19th century. Immigrants from all around the planet came to the Rio della Plata in hope of a better live.

At the same time native Argentineans from the countryside came to Buenos Aires and Montevideo too. They’d got made redundant on the enormous haciendas, the kingdom size cattle farms, and were trying to find work in the city. As both groups competed for roles, housing and frequently mere survival tensions were unavoidable. On the other hand the clash of the cultures was the cradle of one of the most successful music styles and dances, the Tango.

Tango in its beginning was ( and still is ) a social dance, at that time danced principally by the ordinary folk, workers, workers, little merchants… Tango was danced a little differently in the different quarters but to dance together all the dancers had to agree on one common code. One crucial part of this code, which is still valid among real good Tango dancers, was the status for one another.

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