News of tango

Controversy as Tango World Championship moves online due to virus

27-08-2020 03:16 The World Tango competition and its accompanying festival is normally an opportunity for Argentina's tango dancing community to get to work. But instead, the competition – to great controversy – has moved online.

Life during quarantine

Tango dancers go solo in quarantine, awaiting embrace lost to pandemic

29-04-2020 13:11 Teachers are maintaining a minimum income from online classes, but they can't replace the connection that makes the dance so powerful for many.

OBITUARY

Lauded performer ‘Cacho’ Castaña dies at 77

19-10-2019 11:43 The beloved Argentine singersongwriter Cacho Castaña, best known for his crooning voice and sultry love songs, died last Tuesday.

KEY STORIES

Aug 19th-25th: What We Learned This Week

24-08-2019 09:14 What has caught out attention the past week?

BUENOS AIRES

Russian disqualified from World Tango competition over 'punch'

22-08-2019 09:42 The incident happened after the duo, a husband and wife, took part in the semi-final of the competition on Tuesday in the capital.

WORLD TANGO CHAMPIONSHIP

Meet James McManus, the 99-year-old dancer who loves to tango

21-08-2019 17:40 McManus had not even flown on a plane in more than two decades. But just a few months before his 100th birthday, his friends gave him a plane ticket to Buenos Aires.

TANGO

Irishman, 99, competes at world tango championships in Buenos Aires

15-08-2019 09:04 Tango fans in McManus' native Ireland raised money for his transatlantic trip. The fit nonagenerian said he only took up tango in 2002, when he was already in his 80s.