The Argentine Tango spread to ... a "cleaned up" version of the dance was created and this became known as the more acceptable Ballroom Tango. The dance is more sensual and intimate than the ...

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 ...

These locals, or “porteños,” told me Francis is a “theologian of the tango.” As a scholar of Latin American Catholicism, I can see why Argentina’s most famous dance provides a cultural ...