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Juan Carlos Copes & María Nieves

Footage: Silvia Toscano. Watch it on its own
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  1. 0:09They were partners on stage and, for a time, husband and wife.
  2. 0:18Verano porteño, by Astor Piazzolla. From the 1950s, Copes and Nieves worked with Piazzolla.
  3. 0:28In 1983 they starred in Tango Argentino in Paris; on Broadway in 1985 it set off tango's world revival.
  4. 0:37Copes is widely called the father of stage tango: he took figures from the milonga and built them into choreography.
Sources
  1. Verano Porteño - Juan Carlos Copes y María Nieves - Espectáculo: Tango Argentino, Silvia Toscano (YouTube)