Tango (nightclub) – Wikipedia

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The tango , nicknamed The chills box , is a nightclub located 13 rue to the mayor in the 3 It is district of Paris.

Origins [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Cabaret [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

In 1725, at the site of n ° 13, a cabaret was created [ first ] , [ 2 ] , “In King-of-Sardinia” [ 3 ] .

A barricade is erected at this level during the 1848 revolution [ 2 ] . In the years 1870-1880, the place became a drink flow, run by Camille Horel. In 1891, the latter sold the room to an Aveyron cabaret maker (Bougnat), Léon Chanal [ first ] , [ 4 ] .

Bal-Musette Auvergne [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

The current room is a former tavern created in 1896, which was in 1895 the first headquarters of a corporatist union of Bal Musette and Auvergne musicians, La Cabrette [ 2 ] . It was a question of defending their interests against bosses of Bal-Musette who began to recruit accordionists of Italian origin [ 5 ] , [ 6 ] , [ first ] . The Bal-Musette officially opens the And benefits from the collaboration of Cabrettaïre Laurens, popular at the time. The first year, it is only open on Sundays and holidays but in front of its success, we add from 1 is Thursday and Saturday evening. The clientele is then essentially Auvergne [ 4 ] .

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Corporatist meetings of Parisians (notably from the Massif Central) also take place, such as the union of second -hand dealers and hunters, bakers, the association of cemetery guards, reverberal lining or even patchs. Léon Chanal also continues his collaboration with La Cabrette. In , a hotel is added and the ball can open in the morning on Sunday and the holidays. In 1908, Léon Chanal sold his business to Jean Gailhac and his wife – born Vassade -, a young couple from Cantal. For 70 years, they and their descendants run the ball. In 1919, during a meeting at Jean Gailhac, the Bal Musette bosses were informed by the Ministry of the Interior that they can reopen their establishments, closed since 1914 [ 4 ] .

In the early 1920s, the ball continued to be frequented by Auvergne. The writer André Warnod notes that this is “A large room, tables, benches, boys who have been packed up, a jovial crowd, permission soldiers, a noisy orchestra. When we enter, we dance the drunk, the arms get up and lower, the dancers swivel, slide, cross. We are at the Café du Roi de Sardinia who carries on his facade one of the oldest brands in Paris ” [ 7 ] , [ 4 ] .

As in most Parisian establishments of Auvergne origin, music evolves and is available to novelty, customers becoming Parisian and popular. The waltz, the java, the tango, the paso-can-can, the fox-hole then the rumba are prized. The dance floor becomes paraffinated and a prismatic ball poured out multicolored sequins. The establishment then changes its name and becomes tango [ 4 ] .

1980s [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

In 1975, the Gailhac family sold the tango to Marie Biéda. The latter kept a musette orchestra until 1981 in order to perpetuate the spirit of the place. She then hires Serge Kruger, who changes the tango in a nightclub, although the musette continues in the morning on weekends [ 4 ] .

In 1981 therefore, Serge Kruger (founder of Radio Chatche and who had collaborated with Fabrice Emaer for the Palace [ first ] ) organizes Salsa or Caribbean and African music evenings [ 2 ] , which then compete with the Bains-Douches. The public is mainly made up of blacks and Latinos, as well as a trendy audience: “On Fridays and Saturday evenings in Tango, there were always 600 people piled up by 40 degrees, it was sublime, everyone danced and laughed, never a fight. The few celebrities who passed fled, the place did not give you any social valuation, we were not there to show ourselves ” . After the sale of the building by Marie Biéda and new projects, Serge Kruger left Tango in 1992 [ first ] . Subsequently, the mornings were held for some time, with the night of modern Afro-Latin, groove, funk and soul music [ 4 ] .

Club gay [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Subsequently, customers, especially black, deserted tango. In 1995, Hervé Latapie, gay teacher and activist, discovered the premises: “I had launched the idea of ​​a gay musette ball with the gay and lesbian center where I militated. Half of the people had almost spit on me, the others, like me, were fed up with the flawless techno and were happy to reconnect with this old tradition of interlope balls. At the same time, the Elysée Montmartre ball or the Follivores, the desire for a conviviality, French song, musette, cheeste and steeple, but not techno “were at the same time. . He officially took over the club in 1997 [ 2 ] . Tango aims to be on the fringes of the contemporary trend: “Gay Paris has standardized, excessive decibels, fantasies on icy paper and forms of sectarianism: girls on the one hand, boys on the other, over 35 non -muscular years not admitted, techno musical fundamentalism … »» [ first ] .

Tango is specialized in never going from techno or electronic music [ 8 ] . French music, disco and pop-rock therefore make up the play-list of evenings. He cultivates his image of a relaxed and readily “provincial” club: the sound system is not very high so that customers can speak around the track, the decoration is dated and voluntarily kitsch (apart from the recent installation of a smoker) [ first ] , the DJ passes the records on demand [ 9 ] And clothing sophistication does not constitute a criterion of choice at the entrance to the box. The new observer regretted, however, in 2008, “the welcome not always very warm at the entrance” [ ten ] . In 2021, Stubborn evokes on the contrary “A place that the regulars summarizes [ent] to” a nice place where nobody takes the lead and where one can chat with people without being tried “” ” [ 11 ] .

Tango clientele is mainly LGBT. The establishment also welcomes heterosexuals, if they come accompanied and if they show no homophobic behavior. Tango clientele has been relatively wide in recent years and there is a rejuvenation of its members even if all ages are accepted. Paradoxically, the club benefits from its somewhat “old -fashioned” or provincial image, which it readily cultivates, marked by “Its picturesque decor with its dancefloor in parquet and its red curtains […], an atmosphere at the antipodes of other more in but more impressive boxes” note Stubborn [ 11 ] .

The establishment opens from Friday to Sunday evening. The first part of the evening (before midnight) is a ball, where we practice living room dance [ twelfth ] . This concept of “gay musette” dates from 1997 [ 13 ] . After midnight, music changes and the club becomes a place where we dance on more modern music (varieties, pop, soul, funk). Shows and entertainment are organized regularly in the establishment (transvestite show, male striptease as female, readings, debates, choirs, etc.) [ 11 ] .

Closed like all nightclubs during the Pandemic of COVID-19, the club announced on January 8, 2021 its sale, its director denounced insufficient financial aid on the part of the State. It was one of the oldest dance in the capital. Nevertheless, the city of Paris does not exclude pre -empt the building [ 14 ] . For Release , the closure of this marsh nightclub “Confined and gentrified” sign it “Last act of devitalization, accelerated by the health crisis, of the district invested by the homosexual community since the 1980s” [ 15 ] .

Finally, in September of the same year, the municipality bought the building: the nightclub will be maintained and social housing will be set up in the floors. In parallel, the Tango 3.0 collective is formed, an association bringing together 350 people wanting to give more room to associations in the future of the place [ 11 ] .

Tango finally reopens on March 10, 2023 [ 16 ] , [ 2 ] .

Tango appears in Alex Lutz’s film The talent of my friends (2015) [ 11 ] .

  1. ↑ a b c d e f and g “History of a club: tango, from the Musette ball to the travs ball …” , tsugi.fr, April 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d e and f ‘ Tango, popular gay dancing, Guinche after having come close to the final closure », The Monde.fr , ( read online , consulted the ) .
  3. ↑ Marquis de Rochegude (Félix), Practical guide through old Paris , 1903.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f and g Lucien lures, “Tango, a centenary that is doing well!” »» , box–frissons.fr, accessed July 26, 2017.
  5. ↑ Le Petit Futé Île-de-France-Paris and its surroundings, Dominique Auzias, Benoît Le Floc’h, Sophie Courtois, Aude Gorius, 2006, p. 58
  6. ↑ Claude Dubois, The bastoche , Editions Perrin, 2011, p. 294 and note 6 p. 585.
  7. ↑ André Warnod, Paris Balls , ed. G. Crès & Cie, 1922.
  8. ↑ Anna Brooke, Frommer’s Paris Day by Day , 2009, p. 124.
  9. ↑ Collective, Bruno Delangre, David Bedart, Antonin Grenin, Quentin Izzo, Le Petit Futé France Gay and Lesbien , 2008, p. 44.
  10. ↑ The new observer , outside the serial, “The 400 trendy places in Paris”, summer 2008, p. 78.
  11. ↑ A B C D and E ‘ [Excluded] The City of Paris bought the Tango, a historic disco of the marsh threatened by the COVVI » , on Stubborn , (consulted the ) .
  12. ↑ Kate Baillie, David Abram, Tim Salmon, Brian Catlos, Amy K Brown, Jan Dodd, Greg Ward, Rachel Kaberry, Marc Dubin, Ruth Blackmore, The Rough Guide to France , L’Harmattan, 2003, p. 187.
  13. ↑ Jean-Pierre Castelain, Serge Gruzinski And Carmen Salazar-Soler, From ethnography to history. Paris-Madrid-Buenos Aires; The worlds of Carmen Bernand , 2006, p. 37.
  14. ↑ Nicolas shifts, ‘ After a century of existence, the Tango nightclub in Paris sold » , on Stubborn , (consulted the ) .
  15. ↑ Florian Bardou, ‘ Marais: confined and gentrified, the gay district in need of places and links » , on Release , (consulted the ) .
  16. ↑ Émilie Salabelle, ‘ The legendary LGBT nightclub Tango reopens this Friday » , on Actu.fr , (consulted the ) .

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