Tango (disambiguation) explained

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

• Tango (telecom), a mobile telephone operator in Luxembourg and Liechtenstein
• 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 Magazine, an American magazine for adult women under 40
• Tango (Italian magazine), an Italian satirical magazine
• Tango Desktop Project (stylized Tango!), which set standards for computer icons

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 Desktop Project
• 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

See also

• Tanga (disambiguation)
• Tangos (disambiguation)