Tango vs. Salsa dances One professional dancer said: “Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.” Most people consider dancing as the most popular form of self expression. The new generation is getting more inspired and animated from American ballroom and Latin dancing. This style of dancing is the most exotic mixture of different genres of dances based on both passion and frailty, desire and modesty, excitement and self-possession. American ballroom and Latin dance is the hidden language of the soul. Amongst the most popular American ballroom and Latin dance styles, tango and salsa are most popular. Although Tango and Salsa dances are danced socially and both performed in many countries and many South, North and Latin Americans enjoy them; a huge difference is between the history of the dances, contrasting tempos, musical aspects, equipment, structures, textures, extensive string parts, several themes and time signatures of the dances. …show more content…
The music derived from the fusion of various forms of music from Europe. Tango belongs to the Rio de la Plata. The Tango declined in Argentina, in 1930. The dance lived on in smaller venues until its revival in 1983 following the opening of the show Tango Argentino created by Segovia & Orezzoli in Paris. This show made a revolution worldwide, and people everywhere started taking tango lessons. Otherwise, Salsa is not easily defined. Salsa has and will always continue to have a grate number of influences that have each played a large part in its evolution. Salsa is a distillation of many Latin and Afro-Caribbean dances. Each played a large part in its