The tango is just as riveting and relevant as the classic bolero, Argentine pianist Raúl DiBlasio says. "Tango allows you to make instrumental arrangements with a lot of versatility, because it never ...

It takes two to tango, but a whole lot more to make a festival. For the next two weeks, people will have a chance to dance or simply watch, as area dance instructors celebrate the music and moves of ...

Horacio Salgán, an Argentine tango composer and pianist who helped broaden the vocabulary of his musical form and became one of the genre’s most influential and revered maestros, died Aug. 19 in ...

No other dance draws a man and a woman into such intimate contact; no other music connects so completely body to body, heart to heart, soul to soul. Tango fulfils the innate human need to hold and be ...

Today's casual observer might be forgiven for thinking of Astor Piazzolla simply as an avuncular accordion-wielding avatar of Argentine tango traditionalism. But he called his music "nuevo tango" for ...

“Mi Buenos Aires Querido,” by Carlos Gardel: “Carlos Gardel is the father of tango, the original, the archetype, the éminence grise. There would be no tango without him. He was killed in an airplane ...