{"id":42840,"date":"2026-03-10T13:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/?page_id=42840"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:47:22","slug":"tango","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/reference\/pattern-dance-charts-descriptions\/tango\/","title":{"rendered":"Tango"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Music \u2013 Tango 4\/4<br>Tempo \u2013 27 measures of 4 beats per minute<br>-108 beats per minute<br>Pattern \u2013 Optional<br>Duration \u2013 The time required to skate 2 sequences is 58 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Tango.pdf\">Patterns, Step Charts &amp; Additional Information<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Very erect carriage must be maintained throughout this dance. The partners should skate close together. Neat footwork and good flow are essential. The pace must be maintained without obvious effort or visible pushing. This dance consists largely of quick crossed steps skated on shallow curves interspersed between slower rolls skated on strong curves, followed by a promenade skating in open position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inventors \u2013 Paul Krechkow and Trudy Harris<br>First Performance \u2013 London, Hammersmith Ice Rink, 1932<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music \u2013 Tango 4\/4Tempo \u2013 27 measures of 4 beats per minute-108 beats per minutePattern \u2013 OptionalDuration \u2013 The time required to skate 2 sequences is 58 seconds. Patterns, Step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":34245,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_gspb_post_css":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-42840","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"et-pb-post-main-image":false,"et-pb-post-main-image-fullwidth":false,"et-pb-portfolio-image":false,"et-pb-portfolio-module-image":false,"et-pb-portfolio-image-single":false,"et-pb-gallery-module-image-portrait":false,"rpwe-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Team IDC","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/author\/idcadmin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Music \u2013 Tango 4\/4Tempo \u2013 27 measures of 4 beats per minute-108 beats per minutePattern \u2013 OptionalDuration \u2013 The time required to skate 2 sequences is 58 seconds. Patterns, Step [&hellip;]","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7GOSM-b8Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42842,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42840\/revisions\/42842"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ice-dance.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}