Tango, But Don’t Touch!
Innovation Tango Cover Page
Moody Arts Music Special Collections, Baylor University Library
Mrs. Fish came up with a new way to tango! You can read about it by clicking on the article below. Was it well received? Find out below.
The Courier Journal (Louisville, Kentucky)
February 1, 1914
If you are a fan of HBO’s The Gilded Age, you may recognize the name Mrs. Fish. She is one of the real people depicted in the show. Her Newport “summer cottage” Crossways still stands today on Ocean Drive. I wonder if they danced this tango during the summer season in Newport.
"Crossways," Stuyvesant Fish, Newport, R.I. Rhode Island Newport United States, None. [Between 1900 and 1940] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024692816/.
Read some first-hand accounts of the evening. The audience was all in favor of this new, innovative dance. And it wasn’t scandalous.
Messenger Inquirer (Owensboro, Kentucky)
February 1, 1914
We definitely don’t see the tango danced like this today, do we!