"Tamango is an astonishingly fluid performer, always loose with swiveling hips, rubbery legs and a mobile torso but still brilliantly sharp in the crystal clear virtuosity of his complex tapping."
-The New York Times

"If Cirque du Soleil, voodoo rituals and a refined hip-hop sensibility merged, the New York-based group Urban Tap might be the magical result."
- Los Angeles Times

"Urban Tap fuses an international cross-style "Caravane the freewheeling jam session is as much a jazz concert, folk festival and party as it is a dance show."
- Newsday

"Like all great dancers, Tamango has a signature style but never ceases to surprise.... The spirit that inhabits his dancing changes a real body into unimagined and elegant shapes. "
-The New York Times

"By any standard, Tamango is one of the great dancers of this age and this Bay area debut was the kind of joyous event that makes you reconsider the possibilities and realign priorities. Caravane was greeted with the kind of ovation usually reserved for heads of state. "
- San Francisco Chronicle

"...this fusion of international dance and music, psychedelic projections, and poetry that takes the mesmerizing pervasiveness of rhythm as its unifying theme is one of the most stunning theatrical events to stop here."
- The Boston Phoenix

The way things are going these days, it looks like the world could use a cultural ambassador and Tamango's got the perfect pedigree for the positionŠ the universal language is rhythm.
- City Paper - Philadelphia

"A whirlwind of percussionist performers brought together and led by the gifted visionary Tamango. Urban Tap is original and decidedly uncategorizable... It is a moment to be indelibly remembered."
- The Dance Insider

"Tamango's gift to his audiences is that he is the collector, and he sees and feels his performers as friends, as collaborators. All his background filters through his production - the South American, African-Guianese roots, his European upbringing, the white father and black father, the busker and improviser, presenter and performer.
- Dance Magazine

Director-choreographer Tamango, who is dancer, musician and painter, may be considered a 21st century Renaissance man. Caravane is a not to be missed experience."
- Back Stage

Tamango's improvisation, fracturing a rhythm like so many shards of crystal, was remarkable... The musicians supplied heated riffs. The effect is sensual intoxicating, disorienting. All of them contribute to a philosophy of dance that has been liberated from the studio and freed from the ballroom to declare its rootedness in a universal, urban milieu... when he closes the evening and darkens the stage with a cymbal crash, it's like awakening from a dream of multicultural heaven.
- San Francisco Chronicle