María Nieves Rego (80) and Juan Carlos Copes (83) are the most famous Argentinean tango pair of all time. Having met as teenagers and later married, they dedicated their entire lives to the temperamental dance. Even upon divorcing, they put their art ahead of their personal issues. Thanks to Juan and María, tango has traversed national boundaries onto the Broadway stage and has conquered the world. Laden with emotional and passion-filled memories, this special tango portrait of a partnership in life and in art is recreated through music and virtuoso dancers, creating an overwhelming desire to learn this form of dance.

Argentinean tango was created in the mid-19th-century through a fusion of African dance elements and local dance forms. Later, after absorbing Spanish, Cuban and other immigrant culture features, tango became popular amongst common folks. At the beginning of the 20th century, tango became the passion of the nobility, and by WWI tango had captured the posh salons of London and Paris. The golden age for tango in Argentina was the mid-1930s – mid-1950s. During the dictatorship of Juan Perón the dance form languished due to the ban of large crowd gatherings. The fall of the military junta in 1983 marked the beginning of a Renaissance period for tango in the country.

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