KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: It's a steamy ballroom dance called the tango and it's enjoying a revival in its birthplace, Argentina. And as CNN's Sonia Ruseler reports, tango dancers are getting younger and younger.</s>SONIA RUSELER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The tango, sensual, melodramatic, elegant, the rhythm of Argentina is being rediscovered on its streets.</s>MARIANA FRESNO, TANGUERA: When I dance the tango, there is something very intimate, very much about the couple.</s>PEDRO BENAVENTE, TANGUERO: Buenos Aires is tango. You breathe it here.</s>RUSELER: For decades the tango languished. Only those who first fell in love to its songs kept it alive. But now a new generation is learning the steps. (on camera): This is where the tango was first born, in La Voca (ph), the poor port area where the European immigrants first arrived at the end of the 19th century. The story has it it was first danced here in the back streets and in the brothels. (voice-over): The rebirth of the tango is partly due to the rebirth of political freedom here.</s>BENAVENTE: The important thing was democracy. Any country that breathes freedom can express its culture, its identity.</s>LEONARDO OVIEDO, TANGUERO: It was a form of protests. It began as a new social cult challenging the ruling classes.</s>RUSELER: Also, the success of tango shows abroad spurred young Argentineans to value their own music.</s>MARIELA PORTAS, TANGUERA: From the moment we are born we drink the tango. It's the essence of the country and that's why we feel it so much.</s>RUSELER: So the tango is back on the streets of Buenos Aires, in the hearts of its people, defying a new generation to master its dazzling rhythm. Sonia Ruseler, CNN, Buenos Aires.
Tango Enjoys Revival in Argentina