When the tango begins to play, Lidia Beltran shrugs off the Parkinson’s symptoms that plague her, takes hold of her therapist and dances, her body fluid and her steps precise. This is part of an ...

It’s Valentine’s Day week and what better time to learn that sensuous dance — the tango. Art Reach of Mid Michigan will offer “Tango: A Dance Workshop for Adults” from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16.

In the last two decades of the 19th century, the dance known as the tango emerges out of the immigrant culture of Argentina's dockside slums. The tango fuses New World, African, and European dance ...