“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 ...

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 ...

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. The competition wrapped up Monday night with the finals of "stage" ...

You will be awed by the beauty, energy and excitement of Tango After Dark now being performed at The Joyce Theater through March 9th. Directed by Germán Cornejo, the show captures the vibrant, ...

Cornejo learned how to tango from his grandmother around age 10, and five years later, he graduated from a prestigious dance conservatory in Buenos Aires. Broadening his skills by studying other dance ...

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, ...

Tango Fire served more than a warming antidote for a cold winter night. This Argentine ensemble, seen Friday night at The Egg, ignited a tango inferno with a performance that was nothing short of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...