ARGENTINA-TANGO CHAMPIONSHIP/STAGE FINAL Dancers compete for Stage Tango World Championship Final in Buenos Aires

Record ID: 142222

  • Title: ARGENTINA-TANGO CHAMPIONSHIP/STAGE FINAL Dancers compete for Stage Tango World Championship Final in Buenos Aires
  • Date: 28th August 2015
  • Summary: VARIOUS OF THE CHAMPIONS DANCING FOR THE CROWD AND THE AUDIENCE APPLAUDING
  • Embargoed: 12th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Argentina
  • Country: Argentina
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA6XQ7U1XKRE38AI4EVGQJ5R2YO
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Argentine dancers Ezequiel Jesus Lopez and his partner Camila Alegre became the toast of Argentina by winning the 2015 Tango Championship Thursday (August 27).
    A Russian and and Italian couple were among the top four couples dancing for the prize of 40,000 pesos (4759 USD) that goes with the prestigious dance championship.
    To the delight of Argentines, however, a homegrown couple won this year's top prize.
    "You dream about it. You sleep it, you eat it, you live it but you never imagine this moment. You never imagine winning. If you dream it and work for it and you break your soul for it but you can't explain it because I don't know if I should cry, laugh. It was a very strange sensation in my body, very strange, but to know that I did it with the love of my life at my side, like that? What more can I ask for?" said winner Jesus Lopez.
    "Since I was five years-old I have danced and there is not a day that goes by without dancing and when I was little not a day went by without dancing. So, dance is part of my life," said a visibly ecstatic Ms. Alegre. "My life is this."
    The Stage Tango competition goes in tandem with the Salon Tango contest, with the first known to include fancy embellishments, acrobatics and sensationalized solo moves while the latter is known for its stricter technique.
    Competition here is tough and the dancers steamed it up on the stage as they competed in what is renowned as the dance's toughest international contest.
    The Stage Tango competition marks the end of the annual festival, which started on August 14 in the South American capital.
    Tango's international popularity has taken off in recent years and thousands of tourists now flock to the Argentine capital to watch the heated battles between the world's top dancers and join in the festival.
    Buenos Aires, the global tango hotspot, is the birthplace of the nostalgic and impassioned dance which originated in the city's working class ports at the turn of the 19th century.
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