Tango in Buenos Aires



If you love Tango in the same way that we do, you should try our Tango & Slang package.

Tango is more than dancing. Tango is an Argentinean cultural identity. Especially to the inhabitants of Buenos Aires, porteños.

As the dance itself, the meaning and origins of the word Tango are tricky and elusive. In fact, some people say that the word Tango is probably older than the dance itself.

The meaning of the word Tango is difficult to define by scholars. Some argue that the term has its origins in the black African slaves brought to the Rio de La Plata coasts. Other, refers to a Portuguese expression....

....celebration, dance, meeting place, closed space whatever the origins and the meaning of the word Tango are; Tango has a secret and controversial origin in brothels, dating houses, conventillos or the underworld in the 1800s in the booming city of Buenos Aires.

Originally a men's dance, Tango became a popular dance and a way of living for those making their own history in the conventillos and the streets of Buenos Aires. Along its history, Tango was creating its own identity, music, and even its own language.

Lunfardo (slang) is the language of Tango.

The history of Tango is full of guapos, compadritos, malevos, boliches, bacanes, burdeles, bulines, fueyes, malandras, milongueros, gringos, piringundines, etc.

Learning lunfardo is fundamental in understanding the culture behind Tango. If one wants to become an expert tango dancer, one should learn lunfardo as well.

Started as a language by jail inmates an used in prisons to serve as a secret language, the origins of lunfardo can be found among the European immigrants that came to Argentina. Lunfardo it is a rich mixture of local and foreign deformed terms and phrases that reflexes the identity of Buenos Aires and its culture.

By learning lunfardo, one can understand Tango and its culture. By understanding the Tango culture, one can improve much easier and faster this traditional and popular dance that people from all around the word come to learn in Buenos Aires.

Our Tango & Slang package will give you a good amount
of Argentinean culture.

By learning lunfardo during the mornings, having Tango lessons during the afternoons, and going to milongas at night, at Tango Tennis Argentina we are confident that you will return to your country being a Tango 'expert.


A little bit of history:

As the dance itself, the meaning and origins of the word Tango are tricky and elusive. In fact, some people say that the word Tango is probably older than the dance itself.

The meaning of the word Tango is difficult to define by scholars. Some argue that the term has its origins in the black African slaves brought to the Rio de La Plata coasts. Other, refers to a Portuguese expression....

....celebration, dance, meeting place, closed space whatever the origins and the meaning of the word Tango are; Tango has a secret and controversial origin in brothels, dating houses, conventillos or the underworld in the 1800s in the booming city of Buenos Aires.

Originally a men's dance, Tango became a popular dance and a way of living for those making their own history in the conventillos and the streets of Buenos Aires. Along its history, Tango was creating its own identity, music, and even its own language.

Please, contact us, so we could work together on your customized Tango & Slang experience in Buenos Aires.