Argentinean Folklore

Gato Dance

Known in the countryside from Cordova province towards the northwest. It is danced by all social strata. A cheerful and agile dance, the vivid rhythm and the roughish expressiveness.
The couple describes a love play in which the gentleman goes after the lady with elegance and prudence.

Chacarera Dance

Its origin is not precise, but it is belong to the Santiago del Estero province and it was spread out along the country. It is a dance of vivid cheerful rhythm, rouged for its gallantly pantomimic play.

Escondido Dance

It is a dance of great expressive source, where the couple pretends hiding one from the other. It was danced since 1820 to the end of XIX century.
It was practiced in the regions of Cuyo, Tucumán, La Rioja, Catamarca, Santiago del Estero, Salta and probably in Buenos Aires.

Calandria Dance

It had some preponderance in the provinces of San Luis, Santa Fé and Córdoba. Mainly in the Puntana Province (1840).

Cuando Dance

A courtesan dance. It was danced since the beginning of XIX century, both in the rural environments as well as in the saloons of the high society. Its spread up was down to Cuyo region.

Triunfo Dance

A dance of the epoch of the Independence. It was danced in the countryside of all provinces, since 1825 to 1900 approximately. It is of southern origin.

La Patria Dance

This dance was danced in Buenos Aires and Santiago del Estero provinces.

Zamba Dance

An amatory dance by excellence. It comes from the ZamaCueca (Lima - Perú city) and the Chilean Cueca. Its name was taken from the Zamba, an old Peruvian dance, but not its choreography.

Arunguita Dance

It was exclusively danced in Santiago del Estero province, since 1859 through the end of the century.

Huella Dance

It was danced in different regions of the country. Also in the Buenos Aires campaign in 1900.

Remedio Dance

It was danced in the northwest, center and south of the country from towards the middle of the century.

The Tango Dance

Undoubtedly the Tango is in a privileged ranking of the representative of the Argentinean folklore.
It is not only a special combination of dance and singing music, the Tango has, besides, a peculiar language - the lunfardo -, usages and determined customs, and even a characteristically philosophy that identifies the Tango people.
World widely speaking, to tell it apart from other forms that roam about in the dancing saloons, it is called as Tango Argentino which gave origin to all other forms.
Tango was born toward the middle of the last century, with the formation of shanting conglomerates around the young city of Buenos Aires.
Those that lived there, peasants from the interior, European immigrants and some porteños of scarce money resources, made up a new social stratum for that epoch. Maybe looking for a new way of identifying as a group and the feeling of the home as a place of one's pertaining. Cultural manifestations resulting from this mix were started.
This was the beginning of Tango that was characterized for having quite closed codes, only available to the working class.