María Nieves Rego

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María Nieves Rego who, along with her partner Juan Carlos Copes, brought tango to the world in the 1983 production Tango Argentino died age 91 on 19-Apr-2026.

 

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.. to the world in the 1983

1983 was a strange year. I felt much too old for Michael Jackson and Thriller, but still too young for that tango show from Paris.

 

[itwillhappen]

This was the dance style that sparked the worldwide Tango Argentino boom!

 

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This was the dance style..

The rising and falling of the feet as in the ballroom and the bobbing and buckling before a step seems stilistically unaesthetic to me today.