Brett and Jennifer Griswold, Hawaiian dance teachers, danced the Argentine Tango for an incredible 38 hours and 30 minutes in 2014.
Even more incredible, the Griswolds' record-breaking performance was their second of the day. Due to camera issues, they had to abandon their first Tango marathon after two hours and start over.
Tim Ferriss, an American self-help guru, and entrepreneur, and his dancing partner Alicia Monti achieved this astonishing feat live on television in 2006.
Their record clocked in at roughly one rotation every 1.6 seconds, complete with spectacular footwork. Most of us take much longer to get out of a chair than that.
Tango was brought to Finland for the first time in the 1910s. But no one could have predicted how well it would perform before and during WWII, topping the charts and leaving an indelible impression on Finnish society. Though it is based on Argentine Tango, Finnish Tango is a distinct genre in its own right, with its style and characteristics.
Frederick Salter, the world's oldest competitive ballroom dancer, passed his IDTA Gold Bar Level 3 Latin and Ballroom examinations *with honors* in 2011, just a few months shy of his 101st birthday.
Frederick began ballroom dancing in his nineties and continued to do so after suffering a stroke. He died in 2016 at the ripe old age of 105, even though he was still active until a few weeks before his death.
When the right-wing conservative coup ousted General Peron in 1955, they did everything they could to eradicate Tango from society. The new military force was made up of upper-class people who thought everything Peron claimed was good was wrong. As a nationalist and populist, Peron frequently employed Tango for political objectives. Dancers were jailed and numerous Tango tunes were banned by the military regime. Tango did not completely vanish, but it did lose a lot of popularity as a result of the harsh rule.