Like American jazz, Argentine tango music was born of multicultural interaction. Africans, Europeans and South Americans, thrown together during Argentina’s economic expansion at the turn of the 20th ...
For Astor Piazzolla and his “Le Grand Tango” work, it’s a little like the old TV commercials for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups: Hey, you got chocolate on my peanut butter! You got peanut butter on my ...
The vibrant sound of tango danced through Auer Hall on Thursday night as the Latin American Music Center invited Latin Grammy winning tango-bassist Pablo Aslan to lead a tango-jazz concert celebrating ...
Tango music has influenced many nations as it travels around the world. Tango My Passion, an episode of the Musical Discoveries series produced by Dr. Monika Krajewska, is a short documentary tracing ...
URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — Urbana Tango Week is here, and community members are invited take part in immersive and educational events throughout the week. Urbana Tango Week is part of the 2025 CU Tango ...
Nomad Tango presents three nights of extraordinary tango in celebration of Argentine tango. The shows, in celebration of Nomad tango’s fifth season in Santa Barbara, will be performed on August 3, ...
It's easy to envision tango. Two dancers draped over one another, nose to nose, intertwining legs, quick stepping, spinning, dipping and almost pulsating with unbridled sensuality. It's just about the ...
"The first thing to know about tango," says pianist Polly Ferman, "is that it is city music." From Buenos Aires and Rio de la Plata, where it all began, to Paris, where it flourished for a time, to ...
It’s 45 minutes into Queen City Tango’s twice-monthly milonga, and my tango partner and I are nowhere near ready to join the other dancers. In a mirror-lined dance studio hung with paper lanterns at ...