International Argentine Tango Festival
Baku, August 22 (AZERTAC). The 10th International Argentine Tango Festival will be taking place in Dublin 23-26 August, with a series of pre-festival events 17-19 August. The organisers call this a celebration of Argentine culture so the participants can expect plenty of wonderful music, food and words.
The pre-festival events, some free of charge, include a friendly Spanish class held in a pub, talk on the writer Jose Luis Borges and a workshop in tango for complete beginners.
The main events are held in various venues around the south city centre and include workshops and a concert.
Argentine tango music is much more varied than ballroom tango music. A large amount of tango music has been composed by a variety of different orchestras over the last century. Not only is there a large volume of music, there is a breadth of stylistic differences between these orchestras as well, which makes it easier for Argentine tango dancers to spend the whole night dancing only Argentine tango. The four representative schools of the Argentine tango music are Di Sarli, d`Arienzo, Troilo and Pugliese. They are dance orchestras, playing music for dancing. When the spirit of the music is characterized by counterpoint marking, clarity in the articulation is needed.
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