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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


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" (song), a song on the 2008 album ''Love Out Loud'' by Jaci Velasquez *"Tango", a song on the 2006 album '' Public Warning'' by Lady Sovereign *"Tango", a song on the 2004 album '' Tango'' by Negative


Television

* Tango (telecom), a mobile telephone operator in Luxembourg and Liechtenstein *
T.TV T.TV (initially called Tango TV) was a Luxembourgian satellite, cable, internet, and mobile television channel. It was launched on 2 February 2002 as a competitor to the ''de facto'' national broadcaster RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg. The channel was a ...
, a television channel in Luxembourg formerly known as Tango TV *
TV6 (Lithuania) TV6 is a Lithuanian terrestrial, satellite and cable television channel owned by the Nordic television company Viasat. It was launched on March 31, 2002. TV6 focuses on entertainment and occasional but high-profile sports broadcasts (like ...
, 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 SĹ‚awomir MroĹĽek *
Tango (ride) Tango is an amusement ride design produced by the Dutch company KMG that was introduced in 2002. Most carnival Carnival is a Catholic Christian festive season that occurs before the liturgical season of Lent. The main events typically occ ...
, a type of amusement ride *''
Tango Magazine ''Tango'' magazine was a national lifestyle magazine for women based in New York City targeting ages 25–44, and focusing on love and relationships. First published in February 2005, the magazine was published by ''Tango Media'', a privately ...
'', an American magazine for adult women under 40 *
Tango Desktop Project The Tango Desktop Project was an open-source initiative to create a set of design guidelines and to provide a consistent user experience for applications on desktop environments. The project created a set of icons known as the Tango Icon Lib ...
(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 Command Post Tango (CP TANGO) is a United States Forces Korea's military bunker complex in South Korea. It is the Theater Command Post for the Combatant Commander, UNC/CFC/USFK and State Department Korea and can reportedly withstand a tactical nuc ...
, a U.S. military installation in South Korea * Russian battleship ''Poltava'' (1894), sunk by the Japanese, raised and renamed ''Tango'' *
Tango-class submarine The Tango class was the NATO reporting name of a class of diesel-electric submarines that were built in the Soviet Union to replace the s assigned to the Black Sea and Northern Fleets. The Soviet designation of this class was Project 641B and i ...
, the NATO code name for a Russian submarine class


People

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Tango McCauley Tango Lee McCauley Sr. (born October 27, 1978) is a former gridiron football offensive lineman. He played college football at Texas A&M University and Alabama State University. In his career, McCauley has played for the Saskatchewan Roughrider ...
(born 1978), American gridiron football player * Egisto Tango (1873–1951), Italian conductor * Hiromi Tango (born 1976), Japanese installation and performance artist *
Tom Tango Tom Tango and "TangoTiger" are aliases used online by a baseball sabermetrics and ice hockey statistics analyst. He runs the ''Tango on Baseball'' sabermetrics website and is also a contributor to ESPN's baseball blog ''TMI (The Max Info)''. Tango ...
, pseudonym of a Canadian sabermetrician residing in USA * Tanguito (1945–1972), a.k.a. Tango, Argentine singer-songwriter


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

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Tango (application) Tango is a third-party, cross platform messaging application software for smartphones developed by TangoME, Inc. in 2009. The app is free and began as one of the first providers of video calls, texting, photo sharing, and games on a 3G network. ...
, a video-messaging application software *
Tango (platform) Tango (formerly named Project Tango, while in testing) was an augmented reality computing platform, developed and authored by the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP), a skunkworks division of Google. It used computer vision to enable mobile ...
, 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 Tango was a color retouching package aimed at the repro and prepress markets. It ran on Silicon Graphics workstations, and was first released in 1993. This retouching package is still available in the DALiM LiTHO program. As of 2013, LiTHO ...
, Dalim's product for colour retouching during the 1990s * Tango controls, a CORBA+ZMQ based control system *
Tango Desktop Project The Tango Desktop Project was an open-source initiative to create a set of design guidelines and to provide a consistent user experience for applications on desktop environments. The project created a set of icons known as the Tango Icon Lib ...
* Tango PCB and Tango Schematic, early Computer-aided engineering programs


Transport

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Tango (tram) The Tango is a light rail vehicle and tram made by Stadler Rail. It can be built as either a 100% high-floor or 70% low-floor articulated unit. It is in use in Bochum, Berlin (BVG-Class IK), Basel, Geneva, Lyon and Aarhus. Characteristics ...
, 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 The Paraavis Tango Duett is a Russian two-place paraglider that was designed and produced by Paraavis of Moscow and introduced in 2003. It is now out of production.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003- ...
, a Russian paraglider design *
SEAT Tango The SEAT Tango roadster is a concept car presented at the 2001 Frankfurt Motor Show, designed by a team directed by Walter de Silva with the contribution of SEAT's chief of exterior design, Steve Lewis. Featuring a two-door two-seater roadster ...
, 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) Prisma is a satellite project led by the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) which consist of two satellites that fly in formation. Prisma is operated in collaboration with CNES, the French space agency, which provides the radiofrequency metrology sy ...
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

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Tanga (disambiguation) Tanga may refer to: Places Burkina Faso * , a town in eastern Burkina Faso * Tanga, Sidéradougou, a village in western Burkina Faso * Tanga-Pela, a village in northern-central Burkina Faso Other places * Tanga, Tanzania, a city and port on th ...
* Tangos (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, geo