Tango dance and music originated in Buenos Aires, Argentina, about 150 years ago. Its passionate, sensual nature and distinctive rhythm create this music by alternating long and short notes played ...

Tango music has influenced many nations as it travels around the world. Tango My Passion, an episode of the Musical Discoveries series produced by Dr. Monika Krajewska, is a short documentary ...

The Champaign-Urbana area held its third tango music festival last weekend, filled with dance workshops, discussions, concerts and more. At the Community Center for the Arts, four professional string ...

Next, they stood still while tango music played, effectively “dancing in their heads.” Finally, they swapped partners to see how a sense of unfamiliarity affected the outcome.

Tango blends together a variety of world music flavors including Eastern European folk styles like polka and mazurka, Spanish flamenco and contradanza, and rhythmic underpinnings from African music.

Piazzolla’s music has been featured in “Tango Argentina,” the internationally successful dance extravaganza, and in a variety of other musicals, plays and films.

“Le Grand Tango” will be the last concert of the season for ProMusica Minnesota, an organization dedicated to presenting high-quality instrumental music to enrich the southern Minnesota community.

The tango originated in the dance halls of Buenas Aires in the late 19th century and was a well-established and beloved hallmark of Argentinean popular music by the time Piazzolla began his career.

"Tango The Musical" tells the story of Los Desaparecidos, those who disappeared during Argentina's Dirty War which began in 1976.

Guadalajara goes for tango music "El Cafe de los Maestros," a documentary about Argentina's glory days of tango music, will open the 23rd edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival ...