It takes two to tango but everyone is welcome to try
I know the tango from the movie Scent of a Woman. That sinuous, sensuous twosome, where the man and woman seem glued together, yet challenge each other with every step, his machismo equalled by her arrogance. The fifth Cork Tango Festival opens tomorrow at the Montenotte Hotel. It is a weekend of creative classes, demonstrations, and a grand festival ball where everyone shows off. The festival is organised by the Cork Argentine Tango Society, who are bringing in top teacher/dancers so that participants can, to paraphrase the movie, just once, drive a Ferrari rather than a Ford Fiesta.
That’s what Aileen Griffin, festival director, says as she suggests I come along to one of their introductory classes before writing this article. How, she asks, can such a spectacular form be described by someone who hasn’t tried it?
