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...another film about ballroom dancing, you say. You can see it already--Girl meets Boy, but Boy doesn't know she's alive. Boy loses partner. Suddenly Girl lets down her hair and transforms into Miss Latin Dance Queen. Boy falls in love with Girl, and voila--end of story. Not so here. To start with, Girl already knows how to dance, and Boy (and no, ladies, don't get your hopes up, he's not Chayanne) is going through a mid-life crisis. What kind of a movie is this, anyway...
Whereas in other ballroom films, dance merely reinforces what the audience already knows about the characters and their situation; dance in Tango amplifies emotional subtlety and addresses issues of significance beyond that of the immediate scene. It is a surprisingly effective cinematic tool that manages to keep the audience hypnotized for a length surpassing that which Hollywood directors would dare to attempt without dialogue...
...everything from aging rockers and suited 20-somethings to clean-cut alterna-boys and their hipper chicks. Even teenage rave kids were to be found bumming cigarettes and acting cool. Nobody paid much attention to the opening acts; instead they swarmed around the six bars that service this converted ballroom. Playtopia, the second opener, got some attention by the sheer volume of their amps. Despite much heckling and hooting to the contrary, I thought these guys' blend of pure noise and screamed goofy lyrics like "Here come the worms, the worms of doubt" was actually pretty funny. By the time...
...everything from aging rockers and suited 20-somethings to clean-cut alterna-boys and their hipper chicks. Even teenage rave kids were to be found bumming cigarettes and acting cool. Nobody paid much attention to the opening acts; instead they swarmed around the six bars that service this converted ballroom. Playtopia, the second opener, got some attention by the sheer volume of their amps. Despite much heckling and hooting to the contrary, I thought these guys' blend of pure noise and screamed goofy lyrics like "Here come the worms, the worms of doubt" was actually pretty funny. By the time...
Harvard-Radcliffe Ballroom Dance Club. Classes started Feb 23 and run for about four weeks. $20. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hrbdc....