Regardless of the countries, races and social classes, as the 21 centuries' global culture Tango which is the historical and periodical culture-creature of Argentina is prosperous. This thesis tries to find the involved characters of Tango which can l...
Regardless of the countries, races and social classes, as the 21 centuries' global culture Tango which is the historical and periodical culture-creature of Argentina is prosperous. This thesis tries to find the involved characters of Tango which can lead to the popularization of Dancing Art by illuminating Tango.
As the center of Industrial revolution and trade, Buenos Aires - a port city in Argentina - became the main city developed with exchanging and emigrating. Therefore we can see the diverse cultural mixture and they are generating their own special culture with the absence of foreigner, solitude and nostalgia and so on. That is, Tango was generated by speaking for a lower social stratum neglected as a folk dance . In the political and social background of economical renaissance, emigration and socialization which was the biggest uniqueness in Argentina history, Tango related with their own ideology, culture and life-style could be recognized as the creature of the day when Argentina(1880) made the basic of an identity. However, Tango became increasingly popular all the area of Europe including Paris in the early of 1900 before their native place because of the disbelief and inhospitality from the upper classes. By standardizing Bandoneon came from Germany and Orchestra tipica’s tango orchestra, the effect of the music was increased by Carlos Gardel and Astor Piazzolla even in the political isolation and confusion in Argentina. After that, because of the uncertain domestic condition and war, there was a complete blank called stagnation of Tango for 30years (1950~1970). From 1980, Tango was restored out of all recognition by researching scientifical technique and performance without an extempore. Finally, the field of Tango was expanded to theatrical art named Stage Tango period. Getting out of bringing layman into fantasy world by showing gorgeous dress, lighting and setting, new and exceptional Tango could provide audience with deep inspiration. Moreover, it contributed a lot for Argentina Tango internationally.
Therefore, this thesis is going to deal with the pieces of works <Fascination Tango>, <Tango Emotion>, <Forever Tango> which introduced Argentina Tango widely. By looking into how their contents, motion, music and dress are expressed, we are able to understand the diverse of the dancing culture. As a global culture which is historical and periodical culture-creature of Argentina, I will arrange the aspect which how they achieved an international popularization as below.
First, through music and dancing in the work, it contains same subjects and contents, but I am willing to directly express human's constant discords and troubles existing through their historical fact and culture. Second, the contact with partner and the gorgeous leg movement which are the biggest feature of the provocative and sensual movement of Tang can make audience feel sexuality. At the same time, we can recognize that they are dealing with love with comic theme and amusement of exaggerative movement. Eventually we can feel a strong humanism. The third, Tango showing a strong emotion and affection sorrowfully speaks for poor people and it can pass passion, romanticism and sadness of Bandoneon including live performance on the public directly. Therefore, Tango can increase a spiritual bonds through music. The fourth, a female dancer's attractive exposure, silhouette dress, the integrity of the short skirt, the brilliantly decorated accessories and the shining high heelses shoes can emphasize dancer's fascination and aggressive leg movement as well as an eroticism for visual effect that is a key-word of commercialization. Also, male dancers with glossily hair-style, traditional tuxedo, neck-tie and a felt hat showing off their man's character expressed the solitude of the lower classes and an internal sense of loss as a rapidly progressive expression.