BUENOS AIRES (Reuters Life!) - Two men locked in a tight embrace step in time to the mournful chords of a tango. Gustavo Aciar follows his partner's lead, but halfway through the melancholy song, he ...
The vibrant sound of tango danced through Auer Hall on Thursday night as the Latin American Music Center invited Latin Grammy winning tango-bassist Pablo Aslan to lead a tango-jazz concert celebrating ...
Show-offs don’t tend to gravitate to tango dancing. It’s not an art form designed for performers who crave the solo spotlight — as the old saying suggests, tango relies entirely on the expertise and ...
It was illegal to dance the tango in Argentina while Oscar Casas was growing up. Fearing subversive activities in the mid-1950s, the government had banned large public gatherings - including the ...
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 ...
After years of feeling excluded from the elegant Argentine dance, gay and trans partners are bringing more creativity to its traditionally male and female roles. The elegant and sensual Argentine ...
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 ...