The 2008 World Tango Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina opens with 200 dancers.
In total, some four hundred and forty couples from 23 countries are scheduled to take part on the week long competition.Deborah Lutterbeck reports.SOUNDBITE: Tango dancer Kyoko Yamao, saying (Japanese):"For me, coming to Argentina to study to dance Tango is something very special because in Japan there is no classic Tango that exists here in Buenos Aires . So that's what it means to me and what I feel about coming here: it's not the same as in Japan ."