People usually associate tango music with uptightness and strictness, but two members of Trio Escarlata said the ensemble will use classical instruments to convey passion. “(The instruments are) more ...

When you hear the word “tango,” several thoughts probably come to mind: It’s dance music. It’s played by men. And it’s strictly a Latin genre. San Francisco pianist Sumi Lee challenges all three ...

Tango productions typically stick to a tried-and-true formula. A half-dozen couples perform in front of a live band in a revue loosely organized around a brief history of this singularly Argentine ...

Clockwise from top left: Annemieke McLane, Jeremiah McLane, Sarah Cullins, Daniel Gaviria Credit: Courtesy of Piazzolla Project The group has performed just twice since its debut in November 2014 ...

With its beginnings in traditional tango, the Argentine composer's work has taken on new life through different instrumentations, adaptations, and genre-bending arrangements. Author Austin Way is a ...

WASHINGTON — Standing under multicolored lights in a Columbia Heights studio, the tango instructor told her students to find a partner and practice the dance’s basic position, an intimate embrace ...

Featuring music from Abba, Coolio and the film Titanic, this frenetic shakeup of the traditional tango format has little time for poetry or emotional nuance Dancer and director German Cornejo has said ...

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 ...

Juan Guerri (R) and Natalia Fossati demonstrate Tango moves during an online class at an apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 31, 2020. (Photo by Martin Zabala/Xinhua) The Buenos Aires ...

For years, Dancing with the Stars viewers have watched pros and their celebrities perform traditional ballroom dances. One of the most dynamic is the Argentine tango. For the first time in the series ...