The show 'Tango & Candombe' is already playing at the Thalia Spanish Theatre every Friday (8 pm), Saturday (3 pm & 8 pm), and Sunday (4 pm) and will keep doing it throughout the entire month of June.

"Candombe! Tango Negro" proves Sly & the Family Stone's observation that to get people dancing, all you need is a drummer. Well, make that three: This musical, brought to you by GALA Hispanic ...

Tango Negro" offers an intriguing blend of the political and the personal in celebrating a musical form once threatened by neo-fascist oppression. Silva and his troupe are testaments to candombe's ...

Sensual and scandalous: How tango took the world by storm On the streets of Buenos Aires, African and European traditions blended into a sexy—and shocking—new dance that eventually became a ...

Most tangueros agree that African influences were strong in Argentina in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when tango’s roots were watered by the candombe societies, resulting in the quickstep ...

In lively group numbers, choreographers Carolina Jaurena and Andres Bravo juxtapose tango and Candombe dancing, prompting us to consider the similarities or shared influences between the dances of ...

Two of Uruguay’s most typical cultural expressions, tango and candombe (*) were declared on Wednesday part of the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the United Nations ...

In the bohemian district of Almagro in Buenos Aires, the wistful notes of the tango classic “Vida Mía” drift out a window of a small cultural center. Inside, on a makeshift dance floor ...

Tango Nights in NYC tells the stories of passionate, romantic and sometimes capricious relationships between men and women. Performed by the Ajkun Ballet and the National Ballet of Kosovo at the ...

Tango was born in poor, immigrant neighborhoods, with hybrid rhythms inspired by Afro-Uruguayan “candombe,” Cuban “habanera,” and the “milonga” music of ranchers.

Tango, which refers to both the music and the dance, traces its roots to a variety of sources, including the Cuban Havanera and the African candombe. It first came into existence in Buenos Aires ...