There are lots of nice summer events along the Tiber in Rome.
The tango floor is open from 8 pm until 3 am every day of the week. Tango music is fun and it's a clean and romantic dance.
From 8 until 10 pm they offer the tango school as seen above.
As with all dance classes, it's mostly ladies who show up. Those who wear a dress look lovely. The best teachers are Cuban. Women are natually good dancers, men are not. And the ladies can spin and follow a lead - tricky for guy dancers.
Enjoy!
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The Vatican Bans the Tango
November 20, 1913
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B05E4D71E3BE633A25752C2A9679D946296D6CF
A not very catholic dance that can led to sin against the 6th commandment.
JS
I see the Jansenists have returned...amazing how they will agree with a 1913 prohibition on the tango but yet use the internet which of itself can lead to sin...
Amazing all these dances originate in Catholic countries....so much for it beng un-Catholic...
Another of this typical neo-con attitude to smash arguments of their contrahents with the burning mark. "jansenism"
"I see the Jansenists have returned...amazing how they will agree with a 1913 prohibition on the tango but yet use the internet which of itself can lead to sin..."
Fallacy. First, ad hominem ("Jansenists"). Secondly, the article claims that the Vatican specifically condemned the tango as immoral. Use of the Internet itself is morally indifferent.
I don't know if the article's claim is true, but it wouldn't surprise me. If it is true, would the responsible clerics who made the call be Jansenists?
"Amazing all these dances originate in Catholic countries....so much for it beng un-Catholic..."
Another fallacy: Protestantism also originated in a "Catholic country," ergo it can't be un-Catholic, can it? Jacobinism also started in a "Catholic country." Yes, even countries whose cultures are profoundly informed by Catholicism can still give birth to vices. Most Mexican drug dealers are baptized Catholics, too.
Once again, I don't know if the Pope ever really condemned the tango. But it wouldn't surprise me in the least and there's no sense in throwing fallacious counter-arguments back when someone points out that this dance can be a major occasion of sin.
-- Bonifacius
"Fallacy. First, ad hominem ("Jansenists"). Secondly, the article claims that the Vatican specifically condemned the tango as immoral. Use of the Internet itself is morally indifferent."
I see that it concerns you more about an old prohibition made in 1913 than it does the evangelisation of peoples since you seem to have spent an inordinate amount of time both finding the prohibition online and then spending your time wastefully trying to win a needless point...how sad. The use of latin terms such as "ad hominem" in order to sound intelligent impresses me not a whit.
You obviously don't get along with people you don't agree with.
Hey guys maybe you should get out a bit more often??? Interestingly enough my gorgeous girlfriend who is not averse to dancing salsa and marinera, tells me that Tango originated in Argentina at the turn of the century and was danced by men only...perhaps the reason for the prohibition?....:P
I have also heard the ban was lifted by Pope Pius X: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=980CE3DB1730E733A2575BC2A9679C946596D6CF
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