The music that packs the Skirball Cultural Center’s stately courtyard – Yiddish tango – is a musical hybrid twice over. On the tango side, it is a blend of African-born rhythms and a potpourri of ...

(JTA) — The music that packs the Skirball Cultural Center’s stately courtyard – Yiddish tango – is a musical hybrid twice over. On the tango side, it is a blend of African-born rhythms and a potpourri ...

Although nominally a musical, “Tanguera,” the dance spectacle briefly on display (through Oct. 18) at City Center, is more a showcase of all that thrills and excites about expert tango dancing — leggy ...

The musical direction and arrangements are by Gerardo Gardelin and the tango arrangements are by Lisandro Adrover. Set design is by Valeria Ambrosio, with costume design by Cecilia Monti and lighting ...

"Tanguera" The Tango Musical will play a special U.S. engagement at New York City Center, 131 West 55 Street (bet. 7 & 6 Aves). The new book musical will open on Tuesday, October 12, 2009 at 7:30 pm.

Thanks to New York, his musical exposure went beyond the tango, noted María Susana Azzi, one of his biographers. Piazzolla said he learned to love Bach and read music from Béla Wilda, a ...

North American understanding of tango, the Argentinian music, relies heavily on romantic images, reedy slow jams or heated dance routines between a black evening dress and a tuxedo. But to hear Laura ...

Horacio Salgán, an Argentine tango composer and pianist who helped broaden the vocabulary of his musical form and became one of the genre’s most influential and revered maestros, died Aug. 19 in ...

The dancers will perform at the Savannah Civic Center's Johnny Mercer Theatre on Sunday, September 20, at 6:00 p.m. The spectacle that is revolutionizing stages, will be presented in eight cities ...

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 ...