Tango is a social dance form including Argentine, Uruguayan, and international ballroom tango.

Tango may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Dance

  • Tango (Balanchine), a ballet by George Balanchine based on a Stravinsky composition
  • Tango (Martins), a ballet by Peter Martins based on a Stravinsky composition
  • Maxixe (dance), also known as "Brazilian tango"

Films

  • ¡Tango! (1933 film), a film by Argentine director Luis Moglia Barth
  • Tango (1933 film), a film by Danish director George Schnéevoigt
  • Tango (1936 film), a film by Phil Rosen
  • Tango (1969 film), a 1969 Bulgarian film
  • Tango (1981 film), an animated film by Polish director Zbigniew Rybczyński
  • Tango (1993 film), a film by French director Patrice Leconte
  • Tango (1998 film), a film by Spanish director Carlos Saura

Music and dance

Genres and styles

  • Tango music, a genre of music that originated in Argentina and Uruguay
  • Tango (flamenco), a song-form or instrumental-form of flamenco music

Albums

  • Tango (Julio Iglesias album), 1996
  • Tango (Patty Larkin album), 1991
  • Tango (Negative album), 2004
  • Tango (Sonia & Disappear Fear album), 2007
  • Tango (Tanguito album), recorded in 1970 and released posthumously in 1973

Compositions

  • "Tango" (Stravinsky), a 1940 piece by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky

Songs

  • "Tango" (Jaci Velasquez song), a song on the 2008 album Love Out Loud
  • "Tango" (Tananai song), a song on the 2023 album Rave, eclissi
  • "Tango", a song on the 2006 album Public Warning by Lady Sovereign
  • "Tango", a song on the 2001 album Nue by Lara Fabian
  • "Tango", a song on the 2004 album Tango by Negative
  • "Tango", a song on the 1994 album Thirsty Work by Status Quo

Television and Telecommunications

  • Tango (telecom), a mobile telephone operator in Luxembourg
  • T.TV, a television channel in Luxembourg formerly known as Tango TV
  • TV6 (Lithuania), also known as Tango TV in Lithuania

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Tango (comics), a comics anthology published in Australia since 1997
  • Tango (novel), a 1989 novel by Alan Judd
  • Tango (play), a 1964 play by Sławomir Mrożek
  • Tango (ride), a type of amusement ride
  • Tango (American magazine), an American magazine for adult women under 40
  • Tango (Italian magazine), an Italian satirical magazine

Military

  • Tango (boat), also known as the Armored Troop Carrier, used in the Vietnam War
  • Command Post TANGO, a U.S. military installation in South Korea
  • Russian battleship Poltava (1894), sunk by the Japanese, raised and renamed Tango
  • Tango-class submarine, the NATO code name for a Russian submarine class

People

  • Tango McCauley (born 1978), American gridiron football player
  • Egisto Tango (1873–1951), Italian conductor
  • Hiromi Tango (born 1976), Japanese installation and performance artist
  • Tom Tango, pseudonym of a Canadian sabermetrician residing in USA
  • Tanguito (1945–1972), a.k.a. Tango, Argentine singer-songwriter
  • Virginia Tango Piatti (1869–1958), Italian writer and pacifist

Places

  • Tango, a neighborhood in Glan, Sarangani, Philippines
  • Tango Monastery, near Thimphu, Bhutan
  • Tango Province, Japan, an old province in today's northern Kyoto Prefecture
  • Tangov (also spelled Tango), Azerbaijan, a village

Software

  • Tango (application), a video-messaging application software
  • Tango (platform), augmented reality computing platform developed and authored by Google
  • Tango (D library), an alternative to the Phobos standard library
  • TANGO, a CORBA+ZMQ based control system
  • Tango PCB and Tango Schematic, early Computer-aided engineering programs

Transport

  • Tango (tram), a tram type produced by Stadler Rail
  • Air Canada Tango, a defunct low-cost airline launched by Air Canada
  • Commuter Cars Tango, an electric vehicle manufactured in Spokane, Washington, U.S.
  • Paraavis Tango, a Russian paraglider design
  • Paraavis Tango Duett, a Russian paraglider design
  • SEAT Tango, a roadster concept car built by the Spanish car maker SEAT
  • SS Tango, a floating casino located off of Southern California from the late 1930s to the late 1940s, run by mobster Anthony Cornero

Other uses

  • Tango (drink), a soft drink manufactured in the United Kingdom
  • Tango (mythology), the third child of the primordial mother goddess Varima-te-takere
  • Tango, a satellite as part of the Prisma (satellite project) owned by the Swedish Space Corporation
  • Tango, also known as Cluster 4, an ESA satellite in the Cluster II mission
  • Tango, the letter T in the NATO phonetic alphabet
  • Adidas Tango, a family of association football balls designed by Adidas
  • Lactuca sativa 'Tango', a cultivar of leaf lettuce originated by W. Atlee Burpee & Co.

See also

  • Tanga (disambiguation)
  • Tangos (disambiguation)