Argentina with France

I could go on with the Rugby antics after last World Cup's opening game but I am here to talk about tango. Paris has always been a second home for tango and without being cliché about Bertolucci's sexual extravaganza, the feeling of tango fits quite well with that of Paris. Not that I have ever danced (any, let alone last!) tango in Paris. Unfortunately, I haven't been to the city of Light since I've started tangoing...
Since the death of Piazzolla, the circles in Argentina were agitated, everybody was expecting the new big thing to come from BsAs. But the hit came from the other hemisphere. It was in Paris that a Swiss and a French duo, a bit bored with remixing Brazilian music decided to invite an Argentinian friend, Eduard Makaroff, to start something new. And they created Gotan Project, a rearranging of the word tango that both echoed a dialect spoken in the streets of BsAs where syllables are shifted around but also says a lot of their attitude to tango - to take something that is there and turn it inside out, make something new.
And those who were crying over Piazzolla's tomb, unable to move Tango forward, weren't very happy about it. Dismissively, they shrug off the new groove but only to find that the rest of the world had been absolutely taken by the sound. Crowds of young people came to look for tango, know more about it and in places like Edinburgh it is amazing the amount of under 30s dancing in milongas. There is pretty much a new tango group sprouting every month in the UK. Places where you wouldn't think of finding a tango group are now vibrant and up-and-coming scenes.
It would be unfair to give all the credits for this Tango Renaissance to Gotan Project but it would be as unfair to exclude them as the main reason for the revival of tango.