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

Tango may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

Dance[edit]

Films[edit]

Music and dance[edit]

Genres and styles[edit]

  • Tango music, a genre of music that originated in Argentina and Uruguay

Albums[edit]

Compositions[edit]

  • "Tango" (Stravinsky), a 1940 piece originally composed for piano by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky

Songs[edit]

  • "Tango" (song), the title track on the Negative album
  • "Tango", a song on the 2006 album, Public Warning by Lady Sovereign

Television[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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

Military[edit]

  • 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, NATO code name for a Russian submarine class
  • Tango - Known hostile operative, as in Tango down.

People[edit]

  • 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

Places[edit]

  • 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, Azerbaijan, also spelled Tango, a village

Software[edit]

  • 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
  • Dalim Tango, Dalim's product for colour retouching during the 1990s
  • Tango controls, a CORBA+ZMQ based control system
  • Tango Desktop Project
  • Tango PCB and Tango Schematic, early Computer-aided engineering programs

Transport[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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 type of football designed by Adidas

See also[edit]

  • Foxtrot (disambiguation)
  • Last Tango (disambiguation)
  • Tanga (disambiguation)
  • Tangos (disambiguation)