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Since its birth in the city's streets and brothels in the 1880’s, tango has remained a heartbeat of Argentine life, a barometer of its rising and falling fortunes. Flourishing in the grand milongas – dance halls – of Buenos Aires' early-twentieth century Belle Epoque, its supremacy was later challenged by the emergence of rock & roll, and condemned by notorious President Juan Peron. But tango survived to enjoy a renaissance in Argentina and across the world.
The Prettiest Girls in the World explores Argentina through its obsession with the dance, telling of Winter’s adventures in the sexy, over caffeinated late-night world of Buenos Aires’ tango halls. We meet local characters like ‘El Tigre’, a merchant marine turned tango professor and B-movie star, who has danced everywhere from Algeria to Japan; El Tano, a spectacularly foul-mouthed insurance salesman who scraped by for 30 years in Milwaukee giving tango lessons; and Hugo, a wiry mechanic who sometimes goes a whole week without sleep but manages (thanks to a dozen espressos a night) to cultivate a baker’s dozen of stunning groupies.
The tango at its heart is escapism, pure and simple – ‘the vertical expression of a horizontal desire’; perhaps this explains why the milongas are so often packed to capacity at 4am on a Monday night… Part travel narrative, part memoir and part cultural history of a remarkable and troubled country and the dance that epitomizes it, The Prettiest Girls in the World provides insight into the Argentinian soul.
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