Dance practices of tango in dance schools in Croatia At the beginning of the 20th century in England some social dances that derived from local, national or traditional folk dances, largely from the South American region, were converted into standardised sports dances. The tango as one of those dances went through process of standardization to become diferent (tango). Nomination for “The Tango Rioplatense” (of the Argentinian and Uruguayan Rio de la Plata area) was jointly put forward by Uruguay and Argentina. In 2009 “The Tango” was added to the Representative List of World Intangible Heritage of Humanity by the UNESCO. Doing research about social dances in dance schools in Zagreb (capital of Croatia), I noticed very diverse performances of tango and find out that teachers in dance schools mostly teach what can be the closest to standardised tango but without sport technique. In that way, no tango or tango argentino or sports tango is being tought in dance schools. How are different tango's diferentied in Croatian local area and how is tango as global phenomena and on the Representative List of World Intangible Heritage of Humanity danced in local area far from Rio de la Plata.

Etnologija i antropologija