They met on the dance floor. Gülden Özen had been taking tango lessons “with a ballroom instructor who claimed to teach Argentine tango.” Curious to try a new approach, she went to a practica, an ...

At the turn of the 20th century, the well-heeled porteños of Buenos Aires, out for an evening in the seedy port neighborhoods along the Río de la Plata, started noticing a dance they had never seen ...

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 ...