Tango

Tango in Buenos Aires

(Argentina)

Tango is Argentine - danced first and best by immigrants in dismal brothels over a hundred years ago. And it clings to the air of Buenos Aires like the scent of marzipan to a cake tin.

It is a dance of sorrow and you must do it with passion, with intimacy, and with a mind empty of anything but that demanding beat. Turn on the 24-hour tango radio station, drink it in like fog, and, once the clock has struck midnight, walk down the wide Paris-like streets and join the Porteños. Catch an eye, old or young, rich or poor, fat or thin, and wrap your legs around them. Dance, with joy, all night.