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's Living Legacy "Candombe! Through June 27 Tango Negro" GALA Hispanic 202-234-7174 Theatre. June 11, 2004. By Dan Via. CLEARLY, Hugo Medrano has a thing for authenticity.

He became certain of tango’s African roots in styles like candombe and murga, which are native to Angola and Congo. “The tango is made up of three sadnesses, three memories,” Caceres says in ...

"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 academies and tourism have become a world craze. Two of Uruguay’s most typical cultural expressions, tango and candombe (*) were declared on Wednesday part of the world's Intangible ...

Historian Simon Collier, in his book Tango, refers to the first eyewitness description of the dance in 1877, when the African Argentines were seen doing an improvisation of the candombe they ...

The tango has been, from the beginning, ... the African candombe, the Spanish contredanse tango quickly found its particular voice in the sound of the bandoneon ...

While it isn’t completely convincing that tango’s ancestry is as much African as it is Spanish, it does introduce a fascinating dance genre, Candombe, which is unfamiliar to most Americans ...

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 ...

TANGO NIGHTS In NYC to Feature The National Ballet Of Kosovo And The Ajkun Ballet Company . Performances will take place on May 23-24-25-30-31 and June 1.