“If you can walk you can tango,” or so says the researcher behind a Houston-based study trying to prove that, even if they appear frail, seniors can benefit greatly with the synchronized – and touchy ...

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 ...

New York choreographer Kate Weare has long had a fascination with Argentine tango and the inextricable duality it represents. In “Drop Down,” a duet she created in 2006 and presented in 2012 at the ...

Dancing the Argentine tango could have potential benefits for people at certain stages in the development of Parkinson's disease, according to findings in a new study that looked at changes in ...

When the tango begins to play, Lidia Beltran shrugs off the Parkinson’s symptoms that plague her, takes hold of her therapist and dances, her body fluid and her steps precise. This is part of an ...

Magalí Druscovich has followed Parkinson’s patients in the tango program for four years. For this piece, she and Pam Belluck talked with several people involved in the program. Tango is the national ...

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 ...