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AP-APTN-0930: Argentina Tango Wednesday, 1 September 2010 STORY:Argentina Tango- REPLAY Argentinean Japanese couple wins tango stage world championship LENGTH: 02:41 FIRST RUN: 0330 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Spanish/Japanese/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 656171 DATELINE: Buenos Aires - 31 August 2010 LENGTH: 02:41 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: 1 Wide of Tango dancers Rodrigo Gaston Fleitas Torielli and Maria Noel Sciuto dancing on stage 2 Various of Argentinean couples dancing on stage 3 Wide of dancers on stage waiting for the announcement of the winners 4 Zoom in to the winning couple, Chizuko Kuwamoto and Diego Ortega crying and being hugged by other colleagues 5 Cut away audience applauding 6 Wide of Chizuko Kuwamoto and Diego Ortega receiving the trophy, zoom into Kuwamoto hugging audience members 7 Cutaway of tango dancers on stage applauding 8 Mid of Kuwamoto and Ortega showing the trophy 9 SOUNDBITE: (Japanese/Spanish) Chizuko Kuwamoto, winning tango dancer: I still have a stomach ache (Q: And now the partner can translate what she said?) 10 SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Diego Ortega, winning tango dancer: She said that she felt so emotional that she still has a stomach ache that she feels weird here, in her tummy 11 SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Diego Ortega, winning tango dancer: In addition to preparing physically and technically we had been preparing a lot mentally, and we thought about this a thousand times, but even if I try to explain, it is impossible to tell you how it feels when you hear your name and when they say: 'The world champion and ta ta ta it is something incredible, is something incredible 12 Cutaway of media 13 Mid of Kuwamoto and Ortega posing for photographers STORYLINE: An Argentinean-Japanese couple won the Stage category of the Tango World Championships in Buenos Aires on Tuesday night Argentinean Diego Ortega, aged just 21, and 42 year old Chizuko Kuwamoto represented, according to the jury, the perfect synthesis of those who hail - as the tango does - from the Rio de la Plata shores, and those who, despite coming from the most remote corners of the world have come to love the tango as if it were their own 20 couples made it to the final round, some Argentineans but there were also Uruguayan, Greek, Chilean, Colombian and Japanese couples It's impossible to say how it feels when they say your name, said Ortega, who was born north of Buenos Aires but moved to Japan years ago to dance tango Unlike in the Salon category, which was awarded on Monday, those couples dancing in the Stage category were allowed more acrobatic and spectacular steps Kuwamoto speaks little Spanish and Ortega has not mastered the Japanese language fully, but the couple say that they understand each other perfectly when they dance They have been dancing partners for two years In 2009 they also made it to the final The winning prize was 20-thousand Argentinean pesos (5-thousand US dollars), two plane tickers to visit Madrid and a two month contract for a dance tour in Japan Tango emerged as a dance style in the late 1800s in the suburbs of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, Uruguay, and slowly became popular in Europe, the United States and Japan The Tango World Championships attracts tens of thousands of visitors to the Argentinean capital every year, according to local authorities The event has become increasingly international, since its debut in 2002 A total of 400 couples inscribed themselves for this year's championship The tango was declared part of the world's cultural heritage by the United Nations on September 2009 and granted the international seal of approval that Argentina and Uruguay have long sought for the dramatic dance and its sensual moves Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchivecom (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory APTN APEX 09-01-10 0552EDT