Tango in 1996

Color Tango (Roberto Alvarez) — 12 recordings1996[1]

Pepito Avellaneda dies on 29 April.[2]

Maria Cieri: In the San Francisco Bay Area with Rodolfo; interviewed by El Firulete and dances canyengue to 'El chamuyo'.[3]

Jorge Casal dies in Buenos Aires.[4]

Cacho Dante writes 'A Brief Definition of a Milonguero' in Amsterdam, 17 September.[5]

Dante Amicarelli dies in Buenos Aires.[6]

Armando Laborde dies in Buenos Aires after twenty days in the Hospital de Gastroenterología.[7]

Carlos Varela dies.[8]

Hugo Mastrolorenzo wins first prize as a tango dance couple at a national contest in La Plata, his earliest documented competitive result.[9]

Esther Pugliese begins touring the US as a teacher with her son Pablo, who joins the Stanford Tango Week faculty.[10]

Christian Marquez: Christian Márquez and Virginia Gómez begin dancing and studying together.[11]

Virginia Gomez: Christian Márquez and Virginia Gómez begin dancing and studying together.[11]

Orquesta El Arranque: Founded in Buenos Aires by double bassist Ignacio Varchausky.[12]

Stella Baez becomes Ernesto Balmaceda's partner in dance and, by their own accounts, in life, around a year after he began teaching at Club Almagro.[13]

Silvia Ceriani travels to Europe with Tete.[14]

Andrea Misse dances with Palou at Paul Pellicoro's Tango Nights in New York.[15]

Esteban Moreno: Create the show Locura Tanguera (and Con este tango in 1998).[16]

Claudia Codega: Create the show Locura Tanguera (and Con este tango in 1998).[16]

Luis Solanas: Madonna's tango partner and personal choreographer on Alan Parker's Evita.[17]

Lidia Borda: First album, Entre sueños, on La Placita.[18]

Carlos Perez: About now the couple take charge of the práctica at Club Sunderland, Villa Urquiza, after Lampazo's death.[19]

Mingo Pugliese teaches at Stanford Tango Week with Esther; son Pablo is its youngest faculty member.[20]

Rosa Forte: With Carlos, begins running the practica and classes at Club Sunderland.[21]

Inés Bórquez: Part of "Los Grandes del Tango Argentino" in Japan, directed by the Rivarolas.[22]

Adriana varela records Tango en vivo at the Teatro Coliseo in June.[23]

Roxana Fontan sings at the Teatro Colón with an orchestra led by Daniel Binelli.[24]

Ernesto Balmaceda: Stella Báez becomes his partner in dance and, by his account, his wife, about a year after he started teaching at Club Almagro.[13]

Fabian Salas takes part in the filming of Evita.[25]

Tete Rusconi begins dancing and teaching with Silvia Ceriani; they tour Europe and the US.[26]

Martha Anton works with Grondona on Alan Parker's Evita.[27]

Guillermina Quiroga: With Roberto Reis, choreographs the ice-dance tango that Grishuk and Platov take to Olympic gold in 1998.[28]

Carlos Bórquez: Part of "Los Grandes del Tango Argentino" in Japan, directed by the Rivarolas.[22]

Daniel Trenner: International Tango Productions, running the Tango Catalogue and the tours, begins (to 2002).[29]

Julio Balmaceda begins his professional career with Corina de la Rosa.[30]

Quinteto Suárez Paz leads his own Piazzolla quintet on tours of Israel, Europe and the Americas.[31]

Milena Plebs premieres 'Una Noche de Tango'; leaves Tango x 2 at the end of 1998.[32]

Maria Rivarola directs "Los Grandes del Tango Argentino" in Japan with Carlos.[22]

Sexteto Mayor tours Europe and Asia with 264 performances.[33]

Pablo Ziegler records Los Tangueros with Emanuel Ax for Sony.[34]

Jorge Ledesma: Short tour of the south with Osvaldo Ribó.[35]

Ernesto Franco releases a CD with his orchestra on Forever Music.[36]

Antonio Agri records his Kokoró Kará in Paris with the Mosalini-Agri quintet.[37]

Carlos Rivarola directs 'Los Grandes del Tango Argentino' in Japan and, by this period, has founded tango clubs and academies there.[38]

Ubaldo De Lío begins weekly concerts with Salgán at the Club del Vino.[39]

Mingo Pugliese — Described as Pablo Pugliese.1996[40]