Once a week, patients in an Argentine hospital with Parkinson’s disease use the movements of tango to help address issues of ...

Nomad Tango presents three nights of extraordinary tango in celebration of Argentine tango. The shows, in celebration of Nomad tango’s fifth season in Santa Barbara, will be performed on August 3, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Ástor Piazzolla, the visionary Argentinian composer, band leader and bandoneon virtuoso who created the revolutionary nuevo tango style in the 1950s, is being celebrated around the world today, March ...

Astor Piazzolla occupies a unique position in modern musical composition. His work is as “popular” in its origins as jazz or blues, though it is frequently heard on classical-music stations—where his ...

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 ...

This past June, the International American Ballet presented Tango Metamorphosis, a performance blending traditional tango with contemporary ballet and live music. The event, held at the Consulate ...

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 ...

Tango Argentina, a captivating dance performance hosted by Dance St. Louis, is coming to Touhill Performing Arts Center February 5. This production delves into Tango by blending original choreography ...

Jews started leaving Argentina around the same time tango dancing did. From the 1930s to the ’50s, tango, a style of dance and music that originated from the working class in Buenos Aires, Argentina, ...