Discret et talentueux, celui qui a lancé le tango au Liban et constitué une communauté d’aficionados n’a pas eu l’itinéraire d’un enfant gâté. Portrait d’un danseur passionné, à froid....
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Ballroom dance found its origins in the European courts either with the Minuet of the seventeenth century or with the waltz and the Polka of the nineteenth century at that time limited to some elite. With time, with the evolution of mentalities and with the mixture of different cultures as Afro-American like the Charleston, Lindy hop or swing and Latin American like the cha-cha, rumba or salsa, ballroom dances were democratized and crystallized.
In such an atmosphere, Argentinean tango emerged in Latin America (Argentina and Uruguay) with the influence of Africans brought to the continent because of colonization and for commercial purposes. In the early twentieth century, passionate English dancers standardized the Dancesport and personalities such as Arthur Murray and later Fred Astaire contributed to polish ballroom dances’ image increasing its popularity. Nowadays, Dancesport rules (including the related syllabi or authorized steps for each dance in competition) are fixed and controlled by the International Dancesport Federation that has been recognized by the International Olympic committee.
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