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 ...

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 ...

As strains of tango music float over the dance floor, skirts swish, feet shuffle and couples get ready to step off. The practice session for beginners at the Argentine Tango Lovers of Long Island club ...

They met on the dance floor. Gülden Özen had been taking tango lessons “with a ballroom instructor who claimed to teach Argentine tango.” Curious to try a new approach, she went to a practica, an ...

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 ...