“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 ...
Histoire du Tango (composed in 1985) is a classic composition by the Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger Astor Piazzolla. It is a four-movement piece that chronicles the history ...
Historically, the tango has been at least as resistant to change as church music — odd, given that the former was born in the whorehouses of Argentina, the one place you’d think anything goes. Not so, ...
Playhouse Arts is hosting a musical journey with world-renowned tango pianist Winnie Cheung as she continues her mission to bring Argentine tango music and dance to all parts of the world. She will ...
En-Chi Lin & Amanda Ramey talks to ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about appreciation of Argentine tango music, dance, and culture in the Champaign-Urbana area Experience the passion and elegance of ...
Ástor Piazzolla, the visionary Argentinian composer, band leader and bandoneon virtuoso who created the revolutionary nuevo tango style in the 1950s, is being celebrated around the world today, March ...
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 ...
URBANA, Ill. (WAND) - Tango lovers rejoice as the Urbana Tango Week brings its vibrant spirit of Argentine tango to Central Illinois later this month. CU Tango Music will host the festivities July ...
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.