For what seems like minutes, the man and woman stand without moving in the middle of the floor. With their arms circling one another, eyes cast down, the intensity of their unseen communication makes ...
Concert harpist Anna Maria Mendieta and a fusion of Latin dance styles. Concert harpist Anna Maria Mendieta leads us through the tight turns, dips, and smoky cafe's of Argentina, featuring a fusion of ...
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 ...
Carlos Gardel was one of tango’s — and Argentina’s — great heroes and superstars. The French-Argentine singer, songwriter and composer wrote and recorded hundreds of classic tangos, many with his ...
CHAMPAIGN-URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — A festival dedicated to celebrating and educating the public about Argentine tango music, dance and culture is happening this weekend in Champaign-Urbana. The 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, ...
Tango encompasses vocal styles and musical forms as well as dance, and it will arrive — although, happily, not for the first time — in Winston-Salem on Thursday when members of the Lorena Guillen ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...