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 ...

Argentine authorities ordered strict curfews, and the tango, a dance of abrazos — embraces ... is proof that one is never too old to learn. “It is impossible to describe what it feels ...

The structure of Argentine tango music often has two or three parts which repeat in patterns, for example ABAB or ABCAC. Calypso is a type of music and dance from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean.

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 ...