Indulge in two of Argentina's most important exports – wine and tango – Saturday night in Folsom as Tango on the River takes a break from Old Sacramento while the Sacramento Music Festival is in town. An Evening of Wine and Tango is part of the regualrly scheduled fourth Saturday milonga – Uruguayan, Argentine and Southern Brazilian music – event. The event is open to the public, and entrance is $10. It will be held at Wine Gallery in Old Folsom, 627 Sutter Street and goes from & - 10:30 p.m.

On any given Tuesday, Michelle Gorre's students push through more of what feels like a workout instead of a tango class at Sierra 2 Center.  She guides the class through warm-ups, isolations, drills, routines, floor work, and cool-down.  The participants move through  exercises to become better dance partners.  With the same discipline and energy she expects from her class, Gorre is raising funds to support the cure with her TNT Leukemia & Lymphoma Society training team.  She is very close to reaching her goal, with a little bit further to go.    This Friday, April 13, 2012, a tango dance party will be held at The Capital Athletic Club on 1515 8th St. At 7 p.m., there will be a beginn

“Beyond Tango,” pianist Pablo Zielger’s 17-song performance, fused the sharp sexiness of tango music with the jaunty improvisation of jazz to create an enlivened and engaging musical experience at the Mondavi Center on Friday. Zielger began performing classical music at age 14 in his hometown of Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the 1960s, Zielger’s career made the leap to jazz music. Inspired by both classical and jazz compositions, as well as classic tango rhythms, Zielger formed his Quartet for New Tango in 1990. The Mondavi Center’s 1801-seat Jackson Hall was nearly full for the performance, accommodating all ages of music lovers, from the young family to my left to the college-aged women

Composer, arranger and pianist Pablo Ziegler will bring his "Beyond Tango" arrangements of jazz tunes infused with tango rhythms to the Mondavi Center at UC Davis Friday night. He is a 2005 Latin Grammy Award winner for “Bajo Cero,” which won Best Tango Album of the Year. Ziegler was born in Buenos Aires and said he worked with the piano first. “I started at the age of 5,” he said. He studied at the Buenos Aires Music Conservatory and graduated as a piano professor and said that he has been playing jazz music since he was 15. In 1978, Ziegler joined Astor Piazzolla’s quintet and toured with the Argentine composer. Piazzolla is famous for his tango music and bandoneón playing and intro

Tango Fire Company of Buenos Aries Tango presented “Tango Inferno” in Jackson Hall at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis Thursday night. The show was a World Stage: Dance Series Event and brought out fans of visually dazzling dance and enthralling music performance. They were well-rewarded. The stage of Jackson Hall had been recreated as a milonga, a dancing hall, where tango is danced. The band was on a simple stage slightly raised above the dance floor and. A half-dozen standard industrial light shades in red hung over the dance floor and few tables ran down the sides of the floor. A large square scrim behind the band changed from one vidid color pattern to another

Argentine Tango is one of the most electrifying of dance traditions, and Tango Buenos Aires presents it with blazing artistry. The company performed on Thursday at the Sacramento Convention Center theater, the third performance in the Community Concert series. Tango Buenos Aires has been touring internationally for more than 20 years, entertaining, educating and amazing audiences with its interpretation of this cultural treasure. For nearly 200 years, Tango has been danced in Argentina. It is a dance of romance, but it is not your grandmother’s hearts-and-flowers romance. Tango is fire, heat and sensuality expressed in athleticism and muscular grace to compelling, visceral music. This is

I'm going to be honest with you. I am obsessed with the tango. The fluid yet intense drama of the music. The passion that emanates out of an utterly technical and complicated piece of choreography. The ebb and flow of two entangled bodies in the throes of dance. Nestled among the shops of Old Sacramento is a place where the steamy dance halls of Buenos Aires have taken up residence in a local Northern California dance studio. Tango by the River is the brain child of Donna Williams who founded the dance studio seven years ago as a reaction to her own deep affection for the dance that was born in Argentina during the mid-1800s. From the regular class instruction on Tuesday, Thursday and