A unique secret of a tango

In the beginning of a 19th century, Buenos Aires became a meeting place of adventurers of the world. To a bay of the Rio de la Plata, adventurers, loners and smugglers flocked. Those who forever wished to forget the past came. Some escaped from their boring family life, some from economic ailments.

The tango is a dance of two adventurers that destiny has pushed off into a noisy, drunken corner of a city of adventurers. That is why they are so outspoken, adventurers do not have time to wait — their life is too short and unpredictable. They do not have time for courtship, for long lasting friendship, for strategising. In tango is reflected everything that describes the life of an adventurer – The here and now.

The Porteno, hardly having noticed the woman in a bar, his beret in his hand, takes her hand, embraces her and takes a step forward. So begins a tango. The dance is about the struggle of two individuals who suddenly become a whole. There is no time for stuffy letters, languor by expectation and appointments with flowers in a jacket buttonhole. To dance, to love, to wish, to live — all here, now, during this moment of a life.  Another may not be.

In a tango it is har to be cautious. It is more difficult than chess, here it is impossible to calculate more than a few steps ahead. It is riskier than fencing – protection here is impossible. In a tango you can rely only on the feelings, and it is the more difficult and most dangerous. Pablo Veron once said that to dance tango well, one should be absolutely free, as much as possible from everything that holds him down. Only in a complete silence it is possible to hear the heart beat, and in a tango it is necessary to be able to be disconnected from extraneous noise and be fully present, and to live here and now. It  is a unique secret of a tango.