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 Educational, ...

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.

The Afro-Uruguayan rhythms, born among enslaved Africans and once banned, now draws thousands to public squares and carnival parades Like the blues in the US, samba in Brazil, rumba in Cuba and plena ...

CLEARLY, Hugo Medrano has a thing for authenticity. When the GALA Hispanic Theatre's artistic director set out to build a show around Uruguay's candombe music, he didn't stop at poring over academic ...

Tango—one of Argentina’s most enduring cultural exports—has always been more than the sum of its music, lyrics, and dance. For many, it functions as a lens through which to interpret the world: its ...

The show tells the stories of passionate, romantic and sometimes capricious relationships between men and women on the soundtrack of rhythmic, melancholic and distinctive tangos. Performed by the ...

"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 Theatre, ...

It is just as important to be well danced as it is to be well versed or well read. Robert Farris Thompson, Tango: An Art History of Love (Pantheon, 2005) Every Argentinian is proud of the tango. Yet, ...

The documentary, “Tango Negro: The African Roots of Tango” details the African roots of Tango, the famed Argentinean music/dance genre. Music journalist and host of Beat Latino, Catalina Maria Johnson ...

It is widely known that most American vernacular dances have African roots. But what about the tango? An invigorating new musical revue, tellingly titled “AfroTango,” attempts to demonstrate that ...

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 ...