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Argentines win World Tango Championships


(AP)
Updated: 2007-08-26 17:43



BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - An Argentine couple captured the stage category
at the World Tango Championships on Saturday, followed by Chilean and
Japanese pairs.





Argentinian couple Fernando Gracia and Natalia Tonelli wave to the public
after winning the stage category finals of the 5th Tango Dance World
Championship, in Buenos Aires, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2007. [AP]

Fernando Gracia and Natalia Tonelli Attori beat out 17 other duos to win
a first prize of $2,250 at the fifth annual tournament in the capital of
Buenos Aires, the cradle of tango.

Maximiliano Alvarado and his wife Paloma Berrios placed second, and
Hiroshi Yamao and his wife Kyoko, two Japanese natives living in
Argentina, came in third.

The event ends Sunday with salon dancing in which 37 pairs will compete,
including the New York City pair of Eduardo Goytia and Cyrena Drusine.

The stage tango category is characterized by balletic, acrobatic
choreography, while salon tango has less flashy but more popular moves
common to the dance hall parties known as "milongas."

The 10-day showcase of Argentina's famously mournful dance features 479
pairs from 154 cities worldwide. Eleven couples are from Japan 鈥� the
largest country contingent outside Latin America.























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