The Fundación Tango Argentino (Argentine Tango Foundation) is a non-profit, non-govermental organisation whose chief objective is to disseminate tango in all its various forms of expression. To achieve the stated objective, the FTA develops and promots activities according to the following five thematic objectives.

1 -ARTISTIC THEME:

With reference to this theme, the Argentine Tango Foudation aims to:

•  Spread tango among as many people as posible, be it the youth, adults or the elderly. We target both locals, as well as foreigners, with the understanding that the lyrics and the dance are both irrefutably tied in thier origin to the contributions of the immigrants to Argentina.

•  Collaborate with putting up tango related shows, so as to attract more people to tango, and equally crucially, to offer the possibilities of employment to novice dancers and musicians, who are taking their intial steps in their profesional tango career.

•  Bridge the gap between tradicional and alternative tango music, by inspiring young musicians (be they composers, lyricists, or singers), to take up this discipline in order to recreate or compose songs that will further enrich tango culture.

•  Establish cultural exchanges and contacts with artists abroad to spread tango performances and concerts in various countries, with the objective of initiating interest in Argentine culture and thus increasing job opportunities for young artists, while simultaneously stimulating tourism to Argentina.

•  Produce movies and videos, and publish books, magazines and other digital material revelant to the objectives of Argentine Tango Foundation.

•  Start a tango library and museum.

2 –EDUCATIONAL THEME:

With reference to this theme, the Argentine Tango Foundation aims to:

•  Disseminate the teaching of tango, particularly among the young crowd, through the implementation of free classes in various locations – schools, clubs and milongas.

•  Organize and promote seminars, courses and symposiums whose central theme is to deepen the understanding of tango and its multiple aspects – musical, historical, technical, sociological, etc.

•  Award fellowships for the study and improvement of tango related disciplines.

•  Encourage projects that propose to incorporate the teaching of tango in programs in thier educational institutions, be they nacional, provicial or municipal, at all levels: primary, secondary, higher education or universities.

3 –RESEARCH THEME:

In reference to this theme, the Argentine Tango Foudation aims to:

•  Support all activities related to the research of various aspects of tango.

•  Award research fellowships to promote investigation of various tango elements.

4 –SOCIAL THEME:

With reference to this theme, the Argentine Tango Foundation aims to develop and implement rehabilitaion programs for street children, with special stress on teaching of tango-dance as a method of social and economic integration.

5 –THERAPEUTIC THEME:

In reference to this theme, the Argentine Tango Foundation encourages individuals with special capacities and disabilities to learn tango as a form of facilitating their social and economic integrations. To this effect, the Argentine Tango Foundation implements programs related to the incoporation of tango dance as part of therapy for patients affected by various pathologies, like cardic problems, psychiatric neurologies, oncologies etc. The Argentine Tango Foundation contracts a panel of professionals from various disciplines – medics, psychologists, kinesiologists, music therapists, and physiatrists – responsible for the execution and evalution of the said objective. In this way, tango is presented not only as an artistic expression, but also (in its place with alternative therapies) an invauable support for rehabilitaion.