“Tango After Dark,” the two-act showcase of dance and music at the Joyce Theater through Sunday, is a decidedly contemporary take on a style whose roots go back to 19th-century Argentina, where the ...

If you go to a milonga, or social dance, to do tango dancing in Buenos Aires, you’ll likely be doing it to live music. In western Massachusetts? No so much. Now, though, Western Mass Tango, which has ...

A Japanese couple outdanced the Argentines and more to win the traditional salon category at the Tango Dance World Championship. A Japanese couple outdanced the Argentines and more to win the ...

It takes two to tango. But it takes a lot more than that to start a flash mob. The 10th annual LA Summer Tango Marathon will take place across the South Bay next weekend, featuring a traveling “flash ...

Celebrating the rebellious tangos of Astor Piazzolla through dance and live music, choreographer and international tango superstar German Cornejo brings "Tango After Dark" to the Baum Walker stage at ...

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 ...

Jews started leaving Argentina around the same time tango dancing did. From the 1930s to the ’50s, tango, a style of dance and music that originated from the working class in Buenos Aires, Argentina, ...

Perched on the wooden benches lining a temporary parquet floor in downtown Portland, couples and solo dancers slipped off their sandals and sneakers, trading them for dancing flats and strappy heels.

In the last two decades of the 19th century, the dance known as the tango emerges out of the immigrant culture of Argentina's dockside slums. The tango fuses New World, African, and European dance ...

It's a slow, sensual movement. Cheek to cheek, they glide across the floor in a dance born in the tenements of Argentina. Unlike the American tango, which has couples dancing away from each other with ...

Nancy Cardwell was a successful newspaper editor in New York. Then she took up tango, started spending time in Buenos Aires — and met Luis. “Tango is a lead-and-follow dance,” Nancy Cardwell said. “It ...