An Argentine couple has won the stage finals at the 2014 International Tango Festival and Championship. The couple takes home the Stage Tango title in the final competition on Tuesday, to a sold out crowd at Luna Park Stadium.

An Argentine couple has won the stage finals at the 2014 International Tango Festival and Championship. The couple takes home the Stage Tango title in the final competition on Tuesday, to a sold out crowd at Luna Park Stadium.

Tango's international popularity has taken off in recent years, and thousands of tourists flock to the Argentine capital to watch the heated battles between the world's top dancers.

The Stage Tango competition is in tandem with the Salon Tango contest. The first is known for fancy embellishments, acrobatics and sensationalized solo moves, while the latter is known for its stricter technique.

The winning couple both hail from Buenos Aires.

"You often think it goes well, and you dream and you dream, and luckily, this time our dreams became reality," Champion tango dancer Manuela Rossis said.

Gatti says the highly intimate tango was in fact a very public spectacle during the championship.

"And truly to be able to pass it on to everyone, to all of you, to everyone, to everyone at Luna Park... that was a prize for us as well. To be able to do that, well, we left it all out there," Champion tango dancer Juan Malizia Gatti said.

The Stage Tango competition marked the end of the annual festival, which started on August 13th. Buenos Aires is the birthplace of the nostalgic and passionate tango, a dance that originated in the city's working class ports in the late 1800s.

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