{"id":7979,"date":"2021-02-11T14:16:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T13:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitdistrikt.rs\/?p=7979"},"modified":"2021-03-31T10:23:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T08:23:55","slug":"maria-ines-bogado-argentine-tango-the-serbian-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitdistrikt.rs\/en\/2021\/02\/11\/maria-ines-bogado-argentine-tango-the-serbian-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Ines Bogado: Argentine Tango the Serbian Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tango is a sad thought danced, but for Maria Ines Bogado tango is much more \u2013 tradition, love and discipline that brought her from Argentina to Serbia.<\/strong>
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Maria Ines Bogado is a professional Argentine tango dancer, world champion in salon-style tango in 2010, currently one of the most esteemed tango instructors in the world. Thus, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that her workshops held in the Svilara Cultural Station<\/a> at the beginning of February attracted so much attention. Maria has been living in Belgrade for the last five years, so she\u2019s already had a chance to stop by Novi Sad.<\/p>\n

– This was the first time I held tango workshops in Novi Sad, but it wasn\u2019t my first time in the city. I\u2019ve visited Novi Sad with my friends, walked the streets of the city centre and explored the Petrovaradin Fortress. The city is charming, I learned about its history, particularly about the period under the rule of the Austrian Empire, whose traces can be seen in the architecture.<\/p>\n

It can be said that dance is a language we all speak, all types of tango evoke certain emotions. Most people associate it with love and passion. What does tango mean to you, as someone for whom this dance became a way of life?<\/strong>
\n– Tango represents my roots, tradition and love that I have for my country and customs that I learned when I was a little girl. Tango connected me with certain moments of my childhood that I spent with my family, listening to the radio. The music was always with us. It is part of our musical folklore. Also, I discovered that my grandma, too, used to dance tango when she was young. So, this can possibly be something inherited, and as such, my family strongly values it. For me, in addition to that, tango represents love towards dance; I\u2019ve been dancing Argentine traditional dances since I was 12 years old. Tango gave me an opportunity to express my feelings.<\/p>\n

When did you fall in love with tango and how did it turn into professional dance?<\/strong>
\n– I fell in love with tango when I was 17 or 18 when I graduated from a dance school, where we learned how to dance tango at the very end of high school so that we could do it for the final show at the end of the school year. Then, in the embrace of my dance partner, I discovered some type of communication, a unique connection with him, a feeling of trust inside the dance itself, even though we didn\u2019t know each other. During 2001 or 2002 I started dancing with my dance partner in restaurants, and that\u2019s when I started to learn and work a lot in order to become a professional. I met Carlos Perez<\/strong> in 2008, a tango teacher, who organised tango lessons in a very popular club called Sunderland, where I met my dance partner with whom I\u2019ve won championships and started travelling around the world.<\/p>\n