“Finally, a few words about the tango, Argentina’s marvellous gift of dance to the world. We’ve all seen the sanitised version on TV or in the movies. But once you witness the real thing, performed by real people, in the place where it has always been most at home, you realise that it is the most sensual thing two people can do standing up while still keeping their clothes firmly on.
For most of the western world, at least, dance is something set apart, a thing we do with our bodies on the very odd occasion when we’ve had one or two “loosening” beverages, and end up on a floor with many others, hopefully in dim enough light so that we don’t feel like we’re making fools of ourselves.
That’s not tango. For the citizens of Buenos Aires, tango is something you do when the mood strikes you, like after work on the street.”