TANGO DECLARED PART OF WORLD’S CULTURAL HERITAGE
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
30.09.2009 20:18 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Tango was declared part of the world’s cultural
heritage by the United Nations on Wednesday and granted the
international seal of approval Argentina and Uruguay have long sought
for the dramatic dance and its sensual moves.
The 24 members of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee of Intangible
Heritage granted the tango dance and its music protected cultural
status at its meeting in Abu Dhabi.
"We are very proud," Hernan Lombardi, the minister of culture of
the autonomous city of Buenos Aires told the Associated Press on the
phone from the Emirates’ capital. "We hope this decision will help
spread the tradition of tango all over the world."
Tango emerged as a dance style in the late 1800s in the suburbs of
Buenos Aires and Montevideo, Uruguay. It is popular in Europe, Japan
and the United States.