21st CENTURY TANGO
Nuevo Tango Arts is rooted in 4 generations of unparalleled tango legacy, and a 20-year experience producing award-winning works that combine tango music, dance, visual art, cinema, poetry, and influences from jazz, classical, and contemporary genres. Today, our groundbreaking music, dance, multidisciplinary and theatrical productions are redefining tango as a daring, complex, and evolving art form of the 21st century.
Our mission is to preserve the legacy and advance the evolution of tango and its relationship with jazz, classical, and world genres, while uniting people globally through art and culture.
Our vision pairs artistic excellence and innovation with tango's inherent capacity to connect people, promote freedom of expression, and enrich our collective cultural heritage.
100-YEAR LEGACY
Leonardo Suarez-Paz, billed by the press as “tango royalty” (All About Jazz, UK), is a Buenos Aires native and a Latin GRAMMY AWARD nominee who carries a 100-year family legacy in tango and was mentored by the revolutionary composer Astor Piazzolla.
Leonardo played as a soloist with Mariano Mores, Horacio Salgan, Atilio Stampone, Osvaldo Berlingieri, in Broadway's Forever Tango and Tango Argentino, danced and played in Tangox2 and Perfumes de Tango. He starred with Julio Boca’s Ballet Argentino, the New York City Opera, Placido Domingo, Ruben Blades, Carlos Franzetti, Patience Higgins, Jim Hall, Steve Kuhn, Savion Glover and Wynton Marsalis, who has called Leonardo a unique artist that "shows us how easily we can communicate across cultures if the desire and effort are there." - Wynton Marsalis
Today, Leonardo combines his unparalleled tango heritage with a vast experience as a violin soloist, vocalist, choreographer and composer across tango, jazz and classical genres to redefine tango for the 21st century while uniting people through its art and culture as the Artistic Director of Nuevo Tango Arts, co-directed by dancer-choreographer Olga Suarez-Paz.
photo: Leonardo Suarez-Paz & Astor Piazzolla
PIAZZOLLA100 FESTIVAL
Fiscally sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), the PIAZZOLLA100 project was established in 2018 in anticipation of the centennial celebration of Astor Piazzolla, the Argentine-born and New York raised composer who mentored our artistic director Leonardo Suarez-Paz. Today we continue to honor his trailblazing legacy by demonstrating the genre's roots and its evolution while uniting people to celebrate the tango culture in a unique, multidisciplinary format.
In 2025, Nuevo Tango Arts collaborated with PIAZZOLLA100 on bringing tango to diverse communities with PIAZZOLLA100: El Nuevo Tango on tour and the 1st Edition of PIAZZOLLA100: THE NEW YORK TANGO FESTIVAL which took place in New York City, with special events that included Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and our authentic milonga with live music "La Capilla Del Tango."
Stay tuned for the 2nd NEW YORK TANGO FESTIVAL: PIAZZOLLA100 in JUNE 2026.
Virtuoso extraordinaire ... Leonardo shows us how easily we can communicate across cultures if the desire and effort are there
WYNTON MARSALIS, Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Fernando Suarez Paz played with delicious clarity and passion
NY TIMES
Superb
GRAMOPHONE
Personifies and embodies the authentic spirit of Tango
LARAS, Latin GRAMMY-Awards Live
a serious pitch to the black-tie segment
- LA TIMES
Milonga at La Capilla
Authentic Milonga, Always with Live Music
Halloween Masquerade