Forever Tango

Luis Bravo’s Forever Tango traces the colorful history of tango through music, dance, and dramatic vignettes, featuring an all-Argentine cast of 14 dancers and a 12-piece orchestra. The dancers tango in their own specific styles, offering unspoken insight into this mysterious and passionate art form. The live orchestra boasts four of the roughly 200 players of the bandoneon–an accordion-like instrument imported to Argentina from Germany in 1886, which is the iconic sound most associated with the tango — existing in the world today. Created and directed by Luis Bravo, the production took San Francisco by storm in 1994, later going on to Broadway for a year-long run, where it garnered multiple Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations.