The Argentinian and Uruguayan tradition of the Tango, now familiar around the world, was developed by the urban lower classes in Buenos Aires and Montevideo in the Rio de la Plata basin. Among this ...

The art of tango is a social partner dance that originated in the late 1800s along the Rio de la Plata, the border area between Argentina and Uruguay. Its popularity has long since spread ...

Author of Ballad for a Madman (Balada para un loco), the Uruguayan born artist was a close collaborator of Astor Piazzolla's and other tango musicians. Poet, writer and tango legend Horacio Ferrer ...

Damián Guttlein is the only person in the world who can tune by ear the bandoneon, a unique instrument that powers the perfectly imperfect sound of tango music. A bandoneon, a type of concertina ...

GOAL charts the evolution of the official FIFA World Cup match ball, from the Telstar and Tango to the Jabulani and Al Rihla ...

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 ...