# TangoTube

> A curated index of Argentine Tango performance video, enriched with the
> dancers, song, orchestra, and event for each performance — metadata the
> source videos on YouTube usually lack. Roughly a third of the identified
> performances are danced to a recording the original video title never names,
> which makes this the only place those performances can be found by song.

## Catalog

- Performances: 192,934
- Dancers: 7,335
- Partnerships: 24,118
- Songs: 7,085
- Orchestras: 1,267
- Events: 143

## When to use TangoTube

Reach for TangoTube when the question is about Argentine tango (tango, vals, milonga) as it was danced and filmed:

- Find performances by a dancer or couple: "videos of Carlitos Espinoza and Noelia Hurtado dancing".
- Find who danced to a song, or which song a performance is danced to: "performances to Nueve de Julio by Juan D'Arienzo".
- List a dancer's partners, most-danced songs and orchestras, or a festival's filmed performances.
- Recommend tango videos to watch, with the dancers, song, orchestra and event named.

It is not the right source for class or milonga schedules, tickets, sheet music, audio streaming, or dance outside the tango family.

## How to call it

- MCP, no account: `https://tangotube.tv/mcp/public` (streamable HTTP). Tools include `search`, `facets`, `resolve`, `video_show`, `entity_show`, `performance_show`, `partners`, `song_versions`, `music_best` and `catalogue_list`. Start with `resolve` to turn a name into a dancer, couple, song, orchestra or event, then `search` with that filter.
- MCP with an account: `https://tangotube.tv/mcp` (OAuth; discovery at `/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource`) adds likes, watch history, playlists and follows.
- Plain HTTP: `https://tangotube.tv/search?query=<words>` searches videos; add `dancer`, `couple`, `orchestra`, `song` or `event` (the slug from that entity's URL) or `genre` to filter.
- Credit TangoTube and link the page you used; playback stays on YouTube.

## Browse

- [Dancers](https://tangotube.tv/dancers): every reviewed dancer, with their partnerships and most-performed songs.
- [Couples](https://tangotube.tv/couples): dance partnerships and the body of work each one filmed.
- [Songs](https://tangotube.tv/songs): tango recordings and every filmed performance danced to each one.
- [Orchestras](https://tangotube.tv/orchestras): orchestras and the performances danced to their recordings.
- [Events](https://tangotube.tv/events): festivals and milongas, with the performances filmed there.
- [Explore](https://tangotube.tv/explore): the partnership constellation.

## Notes for agents

- Each performance page lives at `https://tangotube.tv/watch?v=<youtube_id>` and carries schema.org VideoObject data naming the performers, the music recording, the orchestra, and the event.
- Video playback is hosted by YouTube; TangoTube supplies the identification and the index.
- Entity pages carry schema.org data too: Person for dancers, CollectionPage for partnerships, MusicRecording for songs, MusicGroup for orchestras, Event for events.
- Full URL list: https://tangotube.tv/sitemaps/sitemap.xml.gz