January 17, 2023
We said goodbye to Iguazu Falls this morning and made our way back to Buenos Aires. After a day of travel we had just enough time to get showered and changed for dinner and a Tango show.
A little history…although Argentina and Uruguay are generally credited as the home of Tango, the origin of the dance are African, brought to Argentina and Uruguay through former African slaves. Its name, “Tango,” was the word used to describe musical gatherings of slaves that would take place in the lower-class districts of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.
Our show included a variety of Tango dances, musical performances, and a traditional Boleadoras dance. Boleadoras are instruments traditionally used to hunt animals. They usually have two or three balls of stone or heavy bone that are each tied to its own rope and then joined together by a third rope – sort of like num-chuks. Gauchos would use the Boleadoras to fell an animal they were hunting, aiming for its head or knees, then finish them off with a sword.
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