[Tango-L] the first person to choreograph

[desdelasnubes@web.de]

..." the first person to choreograph Argentine Tango for professional dancers on the stage."

..." the fist film ever devoted to the tango was called "El tango de la muerte
(1917)".

It makes me wonder where authors derive the self-certain confidence from 
for statements on the first origins. I can but guess that it generates from 
a safe harbour of limited knowledge and/or a decidedly partial admiration.
But the boundaries of knowledge can usually be further extended.

So what might have been the "first film ever devoted to tango" I do not pretend to know, 
but I know of Oskar Messter productions on tango (short films) as early as 1908 
in Germany, encouraged by the tango hype in Paris and Berlin in 1907 and 1908, 
when Argentine dancers and musicians introduced tango in Europa and (choreographed;) 
professional tango revues started to be staged in Paris and Berlin.
I know of several tango films produced in 1913 in Germany with titles like 
Tangofieber ("tango fever"), 
Tangozauber ("tango enchantment") 
Tango-Königin ("Tango Queen").
And Charles Spencer Chaplin dancing tango in the 1914 film "tango tangles". 

Anna


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