Tango on the Silver Screen: “Scent of a Woman...

What happens when you've been studying tango - but you're still not sure you're ready to actually enter the milonga?My guest Sevada has only been dancing for about five months. When we first spoke, he was fascinated by tango, deeply invested in learning it…and terrified of the so ...  Show more

What if knowing all the rules of tango still doesn't tell you what to do?Gregory is back on The Tango Banter, and this time our conversation wanders into the wonderfully messy social territory of the milonga: men following, women leading, cabeceo, rejection, persistence, “saving” ...  Show more

Tango is Argentina’s most iconic cultural tradition. But for a hundred years, tangos have only been written from the perspective of men. The conductor of “La empoderada” or “The Empowered,” Argentina’s first all-female tango orchestra, is trying to change that. A transcript of th ...  Show more

How did a German woman fall in love with an Argentinian/Uruguayan dance? Listen to Nicole talk to Areen, one of our Arabic teachers, about how she got into tango and started practicing it. This dance was once forbidden for its intimacy and the close personal contact required betw ...  Show more

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan celebrate 250 movies on The Rewatchables by dancing the tango and driving a Ferrari better than anyone has ever seen, as they revisit Al Pacino’s Oscar-winning role in ‘Scent of a Woman’, which also stars Chris O’Donnell and Philip Seymour ...  Show more

Today we’ll discuss the order of learning things in tango. Let me be clear: I am not saying there is ONE correct way to learn tango and all the others are wrong. All I am saying is this: This way did miracles for me. It worked for me. So listen to it, take it with a pinch of s ...