Tango—one of Argentina’s most enduring cultural exports—has always been more than the sum of its music, lyrics, and dance. For many, it functions as a lens through which to interpret the world: its ...
Our writer tries to recreate the buzz of a Buenos Aires dancehall in his UK living room with a selection of tango classes on YouTube All of Argentina’s 44 million inhabitants currently appear to be ...
In a way, Guillermina Quiroga has Ronald Reagan to thank for transforming her into an internationally acclaimed tango dancer. If she hadn’t been in front of a television as a young woman in Argentina ...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — It’s everywhere: On street corners. In dance studios. And especially at shows in San Telmo — a neighborhood filled with the very cobblestone streets on which the dance was ...
Acity that flaunts blue-and-white flags every World Cup and has hosted Albeceleste legends Maradona and Messi played host to another Argentinian recently. Nicolas Sandez from Buenos Aires was in the ...
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 between leader ...
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 ...