If you do not know anything about Argentine Tango apart of the tons of cliches which many people have in their minds, you really might ask \”What the heck is that guy chatting about?\” Just give me a minute and I\’m going to explain.

Maybe you know Tango only from flicks where obscure figures on dim lighted dance floors do bizarre movements, gnawing wagon heaps of roses. Perhaps you made up your judgment about Tango having seen ballroom dance competitions, frozen smiles, rigid moves, heads twisting unnaturally with each movement… Could be you went to a Tango Show, spectacular, technically brilliant sensual and perhaps most electrifying.

Yet, what has all this to do with social competence? To answer this questions we should return to the origins of Tango. Tango started in Buenos Aires and Montevideo at the end of the 19th century. Immigrants from all around the globe came to the Rio della Plata hoping for a better live.

At the same time local Argentineans from the countryside came to Buenos Aires and Montevideo too. They\’d lost their jobs on the big haciendas, the dominion size cattle farms, and were trying to find work in the city. As both groups competed for jobs, housing and regularly mere survival tensions were inescapable. On the other hand the clash of the cultures was the cradle of one of the most successful music styles and dances, the Tango.

Tango in its beginning was ( and still is ) a social dance, at that time danced principally by the standard folk, workers, workers, small merchants… Tango was danced a little differently in the different quarters but to dance together all the dancers had to agree on one common code. One vital part of this code, which is still valid among real good Tango dancers, was the respect for one another.

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