Query: tango dance history

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Ana María Stekelman <=SEP=> Ana María Stekelman is one of Argentina’s leading choreographers and is the founder of the Tangokinesis dance troupe.Stekelman studied modern dance in Buenos Aires with Paulina Ossona and Renate Schottelius and then traveled to New York, where she studied at the Martha Graham Dance School.In 1968 she joined the Oscar Araiz School of Dance and in 1972 attended the Opera College, where she studied dance and music research).

Antón Gazenbeek <=SEP=> Antón Gazenbeek (dancer/choreographer/historian) is one of the leading experts in Argentine Tango today. Even at his young age he has taught, performed and choreographed on five continents, lectured at the foremost universities in the world including Stanford University, Harvard, MIT, as well as at the Juilliard School, the Argentine Embassy in Washington, D.C. and across North and South America, Asia and Europe.

Argentine tango <=SEP=> Argentine tango is a musical genre of simple quadruple metre and binary musical form, and the social dance that accompanies it. Its lyrics and music are marked by nostalgia, expressed through melodic instruments including the bandoneón. Originating at the ending of the 19th century in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, and Montevideo, Uruguay, it quickly grew in popularity and spread internationally.

Astor Piazzolla <=SEP=> Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla (Spanish pronunciation: [piasola], Italian pronunciation: [pjattsɔlla]; March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player and arranger. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music.

Bachata (dance) <=SEP=> Bachata is a style of social dance from the Dominican Republic which is now danced all over the world. It is associated with bachata music.

Ballroom dance <=SEP=> Ballroom dance is a set of partner dances, which are enjoyed both socially and competitively around the world. Because of its performance and entertainment aspects, ballroom dance is also widely enjoyed on stage, film, and television.Ballroom dance may refer, at its widest definition, to almost any type of partner dancing as recreation.

Ballroom tango <=SEP=> Ballroom Tango is a ballroom dance that branched away from its original Argentine roots by allowing European, American, Hollywood, and competitive influences into the style and execution of the dance.The present day ballroom tango is divided into two disciplines: American Style and International Style.  Both styles are enjoyed as social and competitive dances, but the International version is more globally accepted as a competitive style.

Blaž Bertoncelj and Andrea Podlogar <=SEP=> BA Tango - Andrea Podlogar and Blaž Bertoncelj are a Slovenian dance and choreography team.  Their focus is the Argentine tango.They won the International Dance Organization (IDO) World Championship of Argentine Tango in 1998 and were invited to perform in Buenos Aires in 2003.

Body contact (dance) <=SEP=> Body contact is a style of closed position in partner dancing.In some partner dances, the connection between the lead and follow is made by direct body contact, instead of a more open frame made with the arms.

Cakewalk <=SEP=> The Cake-Walk or Cakewalk was a dance developed from the "Prize Walks" held in the late 19th century, generally at get-togethers on slave plantations in the Southern United States.  Alternative names for the original form of the dance were "chalkline-walk", and the "walk-around". At the conclusion of a performance of the original form of the dance in an exhibit at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, an enormous cake was awarded to the winning couple.

Carlos Eduardo Gavito <=SEP=> Carlos Eduardo Gavito (April 27, 1942 – July 1, 2005) was an Argentine tango dancer.In 1956 he started to dance in Buenos Aires. In 1974 he worked with Juan Carlos Copes. He also traveled the world with his dance company and his dance partner and wife, Helen Gavito who qualified from the Scottish Royal Ballet School.  In 1995, he went to dance with Forever Tango, However, Helen was not invited to join him as the Director of Forever Tango only wanted Argentinian dancers - which she was not.

Carlos Gardel <=SEP=> Carlos Gardel (born Charles Romuald Gardes; 11 December 1890 – 24 June 1935) was a French Argentine singer, songwriter, composer and actor, and the most prominent figure in the history of tango.  Gardel's baritone voice and the dramatic phrasing of his lyrics made miniature masterpieces of his hundreds of three-minute tango recordings.

Carmencita Calderón <=SEP=> Carmen Micaela Risso de Cancellieri (February 10, 1905 – October 31, 2005), better known as Carmencita Calderón, was an Argentine tango dancer.

Chelsie Hightower <=SEP=> Chelsie Kay Hightower (born July 21, 1989) is a ballroom dancer, who is best known for being a regular dance partner, trainer and choreographer on the ABC competition show Dancing with the Stars.

Cheryl Burke <=SEP=> Cheryl Stephanie Burke (born May 3, 1984) is an American dancer, model and TV Host. She is best known for being one of the professional dancers on ABC's Dancing with the Stars, where she was the first female professional to win the show and the first professional to win twice and consecutively. She participated in 18 seasons.

Cortina (tango) <=SEP=> A cortina (curtain) is a short piece (20–60 seconds) of music that is played between tandas at a milonga (tango dance event).  The cortina lets the dancers know that the tanda has ended. The partners can then thank each other and return to their own tables, to find a new dance partner at the next tanda. Cortinas are used at many of the milongas in Argentina and Uruguay and increasingly elsewhere.

Dance <=SEP=> Dance is a performance art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement. This movement has aesthetic and symbolic value, and is acknowledged as dance by performers and observers within a particular culture.

Dance improvisation <=SEP=> Dance improvisation is the process of spontaneously creating movement. Development of improvised movement material is facilitated through a variety of creative explorations including body mapping through levels, shape and dynamics schema.Improvisation is a free, seemingly unstructured, less technically strict and impulsive form that draws inspiration from everyday dance practices and influences.

Dance in film <=SEP=> This is a list of movies featuring recognizable dance forms, demonstrating them, shedding light on their origin, or being the base of a plot.This article is not about Dance film or Dance for camera which are separate genres. It is also not about Musical films, although they often contain a significant amount of dancing. However, they are a specific form of art in itself, therefore their listings generally pertain to the articles specifically related to the topic of musicals.

Dance music <=SEP=> Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance music.

Dancing with the Stars (Australian season 9) <=SEP=> The ninth season of Dancing with the Stars was announced on Today Tonight, on 5 June 2009. Longtime weather presenter Jeff Newman appeared in a promo of Dancing to promote his retirement.It debuted on 5 July 2009 and featured the following celebrities:

David Derman <=SEP=> David Derman (April 9, 1933 – September 4, 2002 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Argentine tango dancer who kept a record of the women with whom he danced in the milongas in a checkbook register. He danced with approximately 7,600 women. The card he would give to each woman he danced with would have the following "ote:\You are now registered in my heart forever. You will not be for me just a name or a number.

Enrique Saborido <=SEP=> Enrique Saborido (1877–1941), was an Uruguayan tango pianist, composer and dance teacher, who also played violin.

Euro Dance Festival <=SEP=> Euro Dance Festival is a dance festival in Europe attracting about 5,000 visitors in 2010. The festival is best known for its wide range of music and dancing styles. These are Ballroom Dance, Argentine Tango, Swing Dance, Hip Hop and Breakdance. A combination of dancing classes and shows and a trade fair caters for the needs of both beginners and professionals including dance instructors and choreographers.

Figures of Argentine tango <=SEP=> Figures of Argentine tango are elements of Argentine tango.

Finnish tango <=SEP=> Finnish tango music is an established variation of the Argentine tango but whose rhythm follows the Ballroom tango. It was one of the most popular music forms for decades in Finland. Brought to Europe in the 1910s by travelling musicians, Finns began to take up the form and write their own tangos in the 1930s.

Foxtrot <=SEP=> The foxtrot is a smooth, progressive dance characterized by long, continuous flowing movements across the dance floor. It is danced to big band (usually vocal) music. The dance is similar in its look to waltz, although the rhythm is in a 44 time signature instead of 34. Developed in the 1910s, the foxtrot reached its height of popularity in the 1930s, and remains practiced today.

Gancho (dance move) <=SEP=> Gancho means "hook" in Spanish and Portuguese, and describes certain "hooking actions" in some dances of Latin American heritage, in Argentine Tango (leg action) and Salsa (arm action and foot action) in particular.

Geraldin Rojas <=SEP=> Geraldin Rojas – (born 6 July 1981) contemporary Argentine tango dancer, also known as Geraldin Paludi.She is a daughter of Maria la Turca del Carmen and Jorge Dispari. She started her career in 1994. She performed tango in the films Assassination Tango, The Man Who Captured Eichmann, and Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé. At age 16 she ran away from home to be a tango dancer.  She currently dances with her husband Ezequiel Paludi.

German Cornejo & Gisela Galeassi <=SEP=> German Cornejo & Gisela Galeassi are an Argentinan Tango dance duo. They have been dancing together since early 2011 currently dancing for The Tango Fire Company of Buenos Aires for which German Cornejo is the current Director of Choreography. In 2003 and 2005 the duo were World Tango Champions.

Glossary of partner dance terms <=SEP=> This is a list of dance terms that are not names of dances or types of dances. See List of dances and List of dance style categories for those.This glossary lists terms used in various types of partner dances, leaving out terms of highly evolved or specialized dance forms, such as ballet, tap dancing, and square dancing, which have their own elaborate terminology. See also: Glossary of ballet terms  Glossary of dance moves

Gotan Project <=SEP=> Gotan Project is a musical group based in Paris, consisting of musicians Eduardo Makaroff (Argentine), Philippe Cohen Solal (French) and Christoph H. Müller (Swiss, former member of Touch El Arab).

Gustavo Naveira <=SEP=> Gustavo Naveira (born 1960) is an Argentine tango dancer and teacher who contributed to the detailed analysis of the movements of dancing to Argentine tango.

Historical dance <=SEP=> Historical dance (or early dance) is a term covering a wide variety of Western European-based dance types from the past as they are danced in the present. Historical dances are danced as performance, for pleasure at themed balls or dance clubs, as historical reenactment, or for musicological or historical research purposes.Dances from the early 20th century can be recreated precisely, being within living memory and after the advent of film and video recording.

History of dance <=SEP=> Dance history is difficult to access because dance does not often leave behind clearly identifiable physical artifacts that last over millennia, such as stone tools, hunting implements or cave paintings. It is not possible to identify with exact precision when dance became part of human culture.

History of hip-hop dance <=SEP=> The  History of Hip-Hop dance encompasses the people and events since the late 1960s that have contributed to the development of the early hip-hop dance styles: uprock, breaking, locking, roboting, boogaloo, and popping. Black Americans and Latino Americans created uprock and breaking in New York City. Black Americans in California created locking, roboting, boogaloo, and popping—collectively referred to as the funk styles. All of these dance styles are different stylistically.

History of the tango <=SEP=> Tango, a distinctive dance and the corresponding musical style of tango music, began in the working-class port neighborhoods of Buenos Aires (Argentina); and years later in Montevideo, Uruguay; the area of the Rio de la Plata.

Homer Ladas <=SEP=> Homer Ladas  (1969) - contemporary US argentine tango dancer and teacher. Homer Ladas is a personality of tango and nuevo   in the US. He began dancing tango in 1997 and has taught tango since 2002. His dance style has been influenced by, among others, Gustavo Naveira. Since 2001 he has been dancing with his wife Cristina Ladas (br. January 4, 1973); they were married in 2002. Her tango teachers have included Graciela Gonzalez, Luciana Valle, Guillermina Quiroga.

In-tango <=SEP=> In-tango was a debut single of an Italian artist In-Grid. It was released in 2003.English Version of this song entitled We Tango Alone was released in United States, Australia, United Kingdom and another countries. Some Songs are played in Asian countries like Philippines.

Index of dance articles <=SEP=> This is an alphabetical index of articles related to dance.

Ingrid Brainard <=SEP=> Ingrid Brainard  (10 November 1925 – 18 February 2000) was a musicologist, dance historian, performer, and teacher of historical dance. She contributed significantly to the development of the fields of dance history in general and early dance history in particular.

Juan Carlos Copes <=SEP=> Juan Carlos Copes (born May 31, 1931) is an Argentine tango dancer, choreographer, and performer. He contributed to worldwide revival of tango as a dance form after 1970.

Juliet McMains <=SEP=> Juliet E. McMains is a United States dance scholar and instructor, the author of the Glamour Addiction, the first comprehensive study of the United States DanceSport.Juliet McMains started doing ballroom dancing as a teenager. Eventually she became professional ballroom dancer until she stopped competing in 2003. Her Senior thesis in the college was Tradition and Transgression: Gender Roles in Ballroom Dancing. She earned B.A.

La cumparsita <=SEP=> "La cumparsita" is a tango written in 1916 by the Uruguayan musician Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, with lyrics by Pascual Contursi and Enrique Pedro Maroni. It is among the most famous and recognizable tangos of all time.

Lame duck (tango) <=SEP=> The lame duck is a  dance move in tango.The dancers slightly separate, clasp hands, and face forward. The man steps forward with his right foot and the lady with her left, dipping with their right knee as they take the next step. The steps are repeated.

Latin dance <=SEP=> Latin dance is a general label, and a term in partner dance competition jargon. It refers to types of ballroom dance and folk dance that (with few exceptions) originated in Latin America.The category of Latin dances in the international dancesport competitions consists of the cha-cha-cha, rumba, samba, paso doble, and also the jive of United States origin.Social Latin dances include salsa, mambo, merengue, tumba, bachata, bomba, plena, and the Argentine tango.

Let's Dance (German TV series) <=SEP=> Let's Dance is the German version of Dancing with the Stars / Strictly Come Dancing. The show was first broadcast in 2006 on RTL.

List of DanceSport dances <=SEP=> The dances that make up the list of DanceSport dances are performed competitively at amateur and professional levels throughout the world. Ten international style ballroom dances—five Standard and five Latin—are defined by the World Dance Council (WDC), which has world-wide membership of all countries taking part in ballroom competitions. The WDC incorporates various groupings and former titles, such as  the World Dance and DanceSport Council (former title).

List of dance style categories <=SEP=> This is a list of the dance style categories. These categories are not mutually exclusive and are context dependent (i.e., a particular dance may belong to several categories).For older and more region-oriented vernacular dance styles, see this list.

List of dances <=SEP=> This is the main list of dances.  It is a non-categorized, index list of specific dances.  There may also be listed dances which could either be considered a specific dance or a family of related dances, depending on your perspective.  For example, ballet, ballroom dance and folk dance can be considered single dance styles or families of related dances.

Lucía Mazer <=SEP=> Lucía Mazer (born 12 de mayo 1978, Buenos Aires, Argentina ) is an Argentine dancer of Argentine tango. She is regarded as one of the most influential partners of Tango Nuevo founder Mariano Frúmboli and as being one of the leaders of the first transformation of woman's roll in tango.

Luis Pereyra <=SEP=> Luis Pereyra (born 9 July 1965) is a dancer and choreographer of Tango Argentino and Argentinian folklore.

Luna Negra Dance Theater <=SEP=> Luna Negra Dance Theater was a dance ensemble that celebrated the richness and diversity of Latino culture through the creation of works by contemporary Latino choreographers.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy <=SEP=> Maksim "Maks" Aleksandrovich Chmerkovskiy (Ukrainian: Максим Олекса́ндрович Чмерковський, Russian: Максим Александрович Чмерковский, pronounced [mɑkˈsɪm olɛkˈsɑndroβ̞ɪtʃ ˈtʃmɛrkou̯sʲkɪj]) is a Ukrainian American Latin Ballroom dance champion, choreographer, and instructor. He is widely known as one of the professional dancers on the American television series Dancing with the Stars, on which he first appeared in season two.

Mariana Montes <=SEP=> Mariana Montes (born on Monday, 5 March 1979, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine tango dancer and teacher. Since 1998, she has been pairing with Sebastián Arce and have travelled the world teaching and performing. As of 2011, they have visited more than 140 cities in 35 countries.Along with Sebastián, they created a dance performance Piazzoleando  they choreographed and danced in the dance performance Exodo Tangueado.

Mariano Frúmboli <=SEP=> Mariano Chicho Frúmboli (born September 21st, 1970, Buenos Aires, Argentina ) is an Argentine dancer of Argentine tango. He is regarded as one of the founders of Tango nuevo, and he is best known for his musicality and creativity while improvising.

Mark Ballas <=SEP=> Mark Alexander Ballas, Jr. (born May 24, 1986) is an American dancer, choreographer, singer-songwriter, musician, and actor.Ballas is a professional ballroom dancer on the ABC program Dancing with the Stars. He began competing on the show in the fall of 2007. He was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Choreography in 2011. He is also a singer/songwriter/musician and released his first solo CD HurtLoveBox in March 2011.

María Nieves <=SEP=> María Nieves Rego (born 1938) is an Argentine tango dancer and choreographer who starred in the 1983 musical Tango Argentino.

Maxixe (dance) <=SEP=> The maxixe (Portuguese pronunciation: [maˈʃiʃi]), occasionally known as the Brazilian tango, is a dance, with its accompanying music (often played as a subgenre of choro), that originated in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in 1868, at about the same time as the tango was developing in neighbouring Argentina and Uruguay.

Milonga (dance) <=SEP=> Milonga dance is dancing to milonga music.Milonga dance incorporates the same basic elements as Tango but permits a greater relaxation of legs and body. Movement is normally faster, and pauses are less common.

Milonga (place) <=SEP=> Milonga is a term for a place or an event where tango is danced. People who frequently go to milongas are sometimes called milongueros. The term "milonga" can also refer to a musical genre or a style of dance related to tango.The music played is mainly tango, vals and milonga (as the musical genre). Most milongas are held on a regular basis (usually weekly), and they often begin with dancing classes and sometimes demonstration dances.

Milonguero <=SEP=> A milonguero is a person who spends time dancing social tango. The word comes from milonga, an Argentine word meaning tango dance hall or tango dance event.The term was used from the 1870s to mark a man who spent much of his time dancing tango of any style. Since the early 20th century the term referred to a man immersed in the tango culture specific to Buenos Aires. A milonguero frequented dance halls, dancing to the music of tango, milonga and waltz.

Milonguero style <=SEP=> Milonguero is a style of close-embrace tango dancing, the name coined by Susana Miller and Oscar "Cacho" Dante from the Argentine word  "milonguero". Milonguero is a term for a skillful and respectful tango dancer who holds a reverence for the type of traditional social tango that is danced at milongas in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The two uses of the term do not coincide: many dancers who are considered to be milongueros do not dance milonguero-style tango.

Modern dance <=SEP=> Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert dance, primarily arising out of both Germany and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Note that contributions from American dance artists comprise this article's primary focus. Links to articles on German modern dance are included below.)Oversimplification of modern dance's history often leads to the erroneous explanation that the artform emerged merely as a rejection of or rebellion against classical ballet.

Monsieur Pierre <=SEP=> Monsieur Pierre, or simply Pierre, was the professional name of Pierre Jean Phillipe Zurcher-Margolle, (born Toulon, France – died London, 1963). Pierre was a professional dancer and dance teacher: he was primarily responsible for introducing the Latin American dances to England, and for codifying them, and laying the groundwork for their use in competitions and in social dance.

New Vogue (dance) <=SEP=> The New Vogue dance style is an Australian form of sequence dancing that originated in the 1930s. Since then it has become an important part in the Australian ballroom scene, holding as much importance in social and competition dancing as Latin or International Standard dances.

Nicole Nau <=SEP=> Nicole Nau (born January 30, 1963 in Düsseldorf) is a German dancer of Tango Argentino and Argentine folklore.

Norberto Esbrez <=SEP=> Norberto Esbrez (November 22, 1966 - July 16, 2014) was an Argentine tango dancer, choreographer and teacher.A dancer and teacher of tango nuevo, he was known as El Pulpo or octopus for his fluid and intricate leg moves. Esbrez created and named several tango movements including: ocho loco, sentada girada, elevador, or el elástico.

Novelty and fad dances <=SEP=> "Dance craze" redirects here. For the documentary film see Dance Craze.Fad dances are dances which are characterized by a short burst of popularity, while novelty dances typically have a longer-lasting popularity based on their being characteristically humorous or humor-invoking, as well as the sense of uniqueness which they have.

Nuevo tango <=SEP=> Tango Nuevo (Nuevo Tango or simply Nuevo) -  either a form of music in which new elements are incorporated into traditional Argentine tango, or an evolution of tango dance that began to develop in the 1980s.

Outline of dance <=SEP=> The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to dance:Dance – human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting. Choreography is the art of making dances, and the person who does this is called a choreographer.

Portugal in the Eurovision Dance Contest <=SEP=> Portugal took part in the first Eurovision Dance Contest in 2007. Representing the country were Sónia Araújo, a TV host and Ricardo Silva, a ballroom dancer.  The couple were chosen after winning the second Portuguese version of Strictly Come Dancing "\Dança Comigo", in Portuguese).  The dances they performed at the contest were Jive and Tango.  Portugal came joint fifth after receiving 74 points from 12 countries.

Practica (event) <=SEP=> Práctica is a term for an informal event where Argentine tango or Salsa is danced. It is similar to a Milonga. However while a Milonga is rather a formal event where dancers socialise, on a Práctica dancers focus on practicing the dance.The music played is similar to the music played on milongas, though the flow of songs is not necessarily broken up by cortinas. Prácticas are often held on a regular basis (usually weekly).

Queer Tango <=SEP=> Queer Tango is to dance Argentine tango without regard to the traditional heteronormative roles of the dancers, and often to exchange the leader and follower roles. Therefore it is related to open role or same-sex tango. The queer tango movement permits not only an access to tango for the LGBT community, but also supports female leaders and male followers, regardless of orientation.

Ronda (Tango) <=SEP=> Ronda (Spanish "la ronda" for "the ring" or "the round") refers to the line of dance in Argentine Tango. Similar to ballroom dancing the traditional ronda requires the dance couples to move counter clockwise around the room.  This enables many couples to share the floor in social dance situations.

Samba de Gafieira <=SEP=> Samba de Gafieira (also called Gafieira) is a partner dance to the Brazilian samba musical rhythms.

Sebastián Arce <=SEP=> Ángel Sebastián Arce (born 19 May 1980 in Santiago del Estero, Argentina) is an Argentine tango dance and  teacher.Sebastián's dancing career began at eight years when he only a child with folklore and tango dancing and as a teenager he already performed on the stages of Buenos Aires. As a dancer, he performed in the dance film Tango by Carlos Saura in 1998.  His partner is Mariana Montes.

So You Think You Can Dance <=SEP=> So You Think You Can Dance is a franchise of reality television shows in which contestants compete in dance. The first series of the franchise, created by producers Simon Fuller and Nigel Lythgoe, premiered in July 2005 and has broadcast twelve seasons since.  Adaptations of the show began airing in other countries in late 2005 and to date 25 shows have been produced rejjjhjjresenting as many countries and comprising over 70 individual seasons.

Street dance <=SEP=> Street dance, formally known as vernacular dance, refers to dance styles—regardless of country of origin—that evolved outside of dance studios in any available open space such as streets, dance parties, block parties, parks, school yards, raves, and nightclubs. They are often improvisational and social in nature, encouraging interaction and contact with spectators and other dancers. These dances are a part of the vernacular culture of the geographical area that they come from.

Tango <=SEP=> Tango  is a partner dance that originated in the 1890s along the River Plate, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay, and soon spread to the rest of the world.Early tango was known as tango criollo (Creole tango). Today, there are many forms of tango extant.

Tango (flamenco) <=SEP=> In flamenco a tango (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtaŋɡo]) is one of the flamenco palos closely related in form and feeling to the Flamenco Rumba. It is often performed as a finale to a flamenco tiento. Its compas and llamada are the same as that of the Farruca and share the Farruca's lively nature. However, the tango is normally performed in the A Phrygian mode.

Tango music <=SEP=> Tango is a style of music in 2/4 or 4/4 time that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay (collectively, the "Rioplatenses"). It is traditionally played on a solo guitar, guitar duo, or an ensemble, known as the orquesta típica, which includes at least two violins, flute, piano, double bass, and at least two bandoneóns. Sometimes guitars and a clarinet join the ensemble. Tango may be purely instrumental or may include a vocalist.

Tangomarkkinat <=SEP=> The Tangomarkkinat is the world's oldest tango festival. It is held early every July in Seinäjoki, Finland. As well as competitions to find the country's best tango singers, composers, and dancers, the festival features public dancing to live music provided by the best Finnish entertainers. Music for public dancing is not restricted to tango: it includes all the dance rhythms popular in Finland: but tango content must, according to the rules, be at least 40%.

Taniec z Gwiazdami (season 4) <=SEP=> The 4th season of Taniec z Gwiazdami, the Polish edition of Dancing With the Stars, started on 10 September 2006 and ended on 12 November 2006. It was broadcast by TVN. Katarzyna Skrzynecka and Piotr Gąsowski continued as the hosts, and the judges were: Iwona Szymańska-Pavlović, Zbigniew Wodecki, Beata Tyszkiewicz and Piotr Galiński.

Tantsud tähtedega 2010 <=SEP=> Tantsud tähtedega 2010 is the fourth season of the Estonian version of Dancing with the Stars, and was broadcast on the Estonian television channel Kanal 2 starting on 10 October. The hosts were Mart Sander and Kaisa Oja. The jury members were Ants Tael, Merle Klandorf and Jüri Nael.

Taxi dance hall <=SEP=> A taxi dance hall is a type of dance hall where dancers, usually young women, called taxi dancers are paid to dance with usually male patrons. The owners of a taxi dance hall provide music and a dance floor for their patrons and taxi dancers. In the United States during the 1920s and 1930s, when taxi dancing was at its peak, patrons of taxi dance halls would typically buy dance tickets for ten cents each.

Uruguayan tango <=SEP=> Tango is a rhythm that has its roots in the poor areas of Montevideo around 1880. Then it was extended to other areas and countries. As Borges said: "...tango is African-Montevidean [Uruguayan], tango has black curls in its roots..." He quoted Rossi, that sustained that "...tango, that argentine people call argentine tango, is the son of the Montevidean milonga and the grandson of the habanera.

Veloz and Yolanda <=SEP=> Frank Veloz (1902–1981) and Yolanda Casazza (1911–1995) were a self-taught American ballroom dance team, husband and wife, who became stars in the 1930s and 1940s. They were among the highest paid dance acts during this period. They performed on stage in productions such as Hot-Cha!, which ran for 119 shows on Broadway in 1932.

World tango dance tournament <=SEP=> The World tango dance tournament (in Spanish: Campeonato Mundial de Baile de Tango, also known as Mundial de Tango) is an annual competition of Argentine Tango, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, usually in August, as part of the Buenos Aires Tango Festival organized by the city's government.