NUEVO TANGO ARTS
PIAZZOLLA100: The New York Tango Festival
LA CAPILLA DEL TANGO Milongas & Tango Classes
PIAZZOLLA100: The New York Tango Festival
Experience tango culture like never before in a unique, multidisciplinary celebration
Concerts, Milongas with Live Music, Film, Immersive Music & Dance Courses!
The FEST is our local season when we transform the city into a hub for tango music, dance, literature, poetry, visual art and cinema. We showcase our productions and invite the global tango community to celebrate, learn, and further the tango genre, extending its 100-year history in NYC. Fiscal Sponsor - New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
Be a part of the 2nd PIAZZOLLA100 Fest
June 18-21, 2026 in New York City
Award - winning PRODUCTIONS
LA CAPILLA DEL TANGO Milongas & Tango Classes
PIAZZOLLA100: The New York Tango Festival
Share groundbreaking and transformative performance programs & community outreach with your audience!
From Teatro Colon and CCK in Buenos Aires to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC to Latin GRAMMY Awards live, we reached the hearts of thousands with 2xLatin GRAMMY nom. Cuartetango string quartet, PBS featured Cuartetango Music & Dance &
award-winning multidisciplinary show PIAZZOLLA100: El Nuevo Tango - a tango show for the new century
Book live performances and masterfully crafted education & outreach
LA CAPILLA DEL TANGO Milongas & Tango Classes
LA CAPILLA DEL TANGO Milongas & Tango Classes
LA CAPILLA DEL TANGO Milongas & Tango Classes
Join us for our Authentic Milonga, Always with live Music & Dance + Tango Classes!
"La Capilla" is a community initiative which brings people together to practice and study tango dance, music and culture.
It is a tradition revived and offers a rare privilege to listed to and dance traditional tangos played in "La Parrilla," form by Argentine masters of music. This program focuses on supporting tango artists and the Hispanic community while offering opportunities to a new generation of tangueros.
Join us for an authentic Tango experience and support live improvisational art
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.
MISSION
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.
VISION
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 violin soloist with Mariano Mores, Horacio Salgan, Atilio Stampone, Osvaldo Berlingieri, in Broadway's Forever Tango and Tango Argentino. He was a tango dance student of Juan Carlos Copes and Miguel Angel Zotto and was both a dancer and violinist in TangoX2 and Perfumes de Tango. Leonardo played as violin soloist 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 and PIAZZOLLA100 Festival, co-directed by dancer-choreographer Olga Suarez-Paz.
photo: Leonardo Suarez-Paz & Astor Piazzolla
Virtuoso extraordinaire ... Leonardo shows us how easily we can communicate across cultures if the desire and effort are there
WYNTON MARSALIS, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Fernando Suarez Paz played with delicious clarity and passion
NY TIMES
Superb... Harmonically sophisticated...
GRAMOPHONE UK
Personifies and embodies the authentic spirit of Tango
LARAS, Latin GRAMMY-Awards Live
a serious pitch to the black-tie segment
- LA TIMES
