The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-01-23
TANGO AS IT is DANCED IN
-,,oopE. SOUTH AMERICA
AND UNITED STATES

tines, is Lne Hooi -
a. ~ least the place where one
tho tango as it is danced in
ii. TOO this winter. How is is
Ia in the Argentine Republic is
py o.+or If doubt. The ArgentineS
ao tn Paris insist, one and all,
IsSss 4 said that they despise the tango
oct when a French newspaper an
Y .,,cad that the tango was danced
soiree given by the minister from
gantine. that gentleman made a
ro,nnt and public denial of it. But
shateyer the feeling against it, Paris
"a southern Europe as we'll as
l,,,erica. have accepted it with de-
irious delight.
M The South Americans says that
b.,;s neither dances nor teaches the
sneo in its original form. The people
| E.on Brazil say that the MaXiXe,
ee .b,cb Dubuque made the rival OF the
, Snpo is only the first cousin to the
MI ksxixe of Rio de Janiero. 1t seems
hi IA in their primitive state both
y kese dances are far too wild for the
kslroom. and that French dancing
n l.Ssters have modified them to state
NJ graceful measures. Yet they have
e h,cceeded in keeping the primitive
y \ ksnt of the time and the Latin aban-
zion of the body.
aa The tango pupils in the French cap
oa saf discover that there are two ways
y h dance it and quicnly learn that
d nd word as used in America has no
Lfeal relation to the dance itself.
americans complacently cover all
4 the new forms of dancing with the
word tango" There are scarcely
half dozen people in Pensacola who
sgen knew the rudimentary steps OF
" he real tango" said a charming wo-
!, nan the other day who is an enthus-
hstic devotee of Terpischore.
ts rThe word tango" she continued,
~ ~ applied here to any dance that is
/. tough and Objectionable, to free and
ny basy to acquire, but the Argentine
Gfango. we'll danced, is stately, slow
and withou tan Objectionable feature.
1t is the individual, not the dance,
that is to be blamed for the insane
e triticism one hears on every side.
americans find the tango exceeding
~ difficult to learn and even the
french who frequent dance halls are
often compelled to eliminate many of
the most bewitching steps and skele-
tonize the dance to suit participants
who are not expert in matters Terpis-
!. rhorean.
However, if one is not going to
tango we'll, one had better not tango
Y at ALL The modified version of this
/. lance is uninteresting and the Ameri-
can attempts which result in mix
ture of the turkey trot and the tango
do not contribute towards the grace
i Of nations. There is no doubt that
4 Europeans prefer the tango to the
sfurkey trot because they think the
after is merely a violent dance which
X requires more agility than grace"
\ OF the craze for the tango in the
escorts of Europe, Vogue has the fol
lowing to say:
This autumn, as usual, the sum-
ner resorts of Europe gathered to-
gether all the people one wants to
u meet and all those whom one does
z not want to meet, and at Vichy, AK
!. ieS-Bains, Hamburg and Carlsbad it
vas tango, tango, tango. The long
ilnes of pilgrims who, cups in hand,
Y uttered toward the springs in the
! early morning would have tangoed
own the mountain side at the sound
q fiddle. Few meals were eaten
&prough from soup to coffee without
We chairs being pushed back and the
/ alners trying out few new steps be-
D kFeen the courses
AT Deauville, the end of the fash
enable pilgrimage of pleasure, the
nests could hardly watch the races
SIRr tangoing. The magnificent hotel,
Me Royal, which opened in August,
Employed professional dancers to
muse and instruct its guests, and all
eay long the celebrities dipped and
eeht and whirled to the strains of an
Mchestra or even at the mere whistl-
provocation of an amateur en-
4usiast. Side by side with the gambl-
Y tables at the gorgeous, new casino
#ere the tango rooms where royalty
va nobility did not hesitate to
Nrouette, and where Dubuque, Vernon
Srstle and Maurice divided honors,
pa danced for the delectation of the
FOwd."