It has been almost a year since I started Londontango!  Party time!  I hope that the blog has been somewhat entertaining and informative.  Just a favour….I have updated the Special Events Page and Calendar.  I would appreciate it if people would inform me of any milonga/practica closures, or parties over the holidays.

I may have moved down to the coast, but I plan on coming back on occasion and will be keeping up the blog.  So  lease keep me informed of what is going on in and around London.

In the meantime, have a great time dancing!

All the best,

Arlene

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Gửi các bạn yêu thích tango tại Hà Nội,

TangoHanoi sẽ tổ chức milonga như thường lệ vào thứ 7 ngày 28/11/2009 tại Rạp chiếu phim Ngọc Khánh.

Hẹn gặp lại các bạn và Tango!

Tango Hà Nội

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Dear Tango lovers,

We’d like to inform you that Saturday milonga’ll be organized as usual on Nov 28, 2009 (20.30-22.30) at Ngoc Khanh Cinema- 523 Kim Ma Street- Hanoi (opposite to Daewoo Hotel)

Hope to see all of you!

Hasta pronto!

TangoHanoi

Tanguetería en la Chilavert

(cerrando el ciclo 2009 y palpitando el gran festejo de fin de año)

Amigas y amigos del Centro Cultural Chilavert Recupera, los esperamos para celebrar el cierre de ciclo 2009 de la Tanguetería

Viernes 27 de noviembre, 21 hs.

Menú del día:

-Inauguración muestra plástica del Grupo Centurión
-Jorge Bafaro, ya un amigo de la casa, cantando una exquisita selección de tangos
-Ferraris Trío, sumando el folclore a nuestros encuentros
-Gastón y Tina, con Swing dance/ Hot Jazz (Charleston, Solo Charleston, Blues, Lindy Hop y Authentic Jazz) con un carácter enérgico y acrobático, inspirado en el estilo negro de los años dorados del Swing, la década del 30 y el 40.

+ Espacio de Milonga (para quienes gusten de un clásico abrazo arrabalero) y bailes tangueteros (para quienes deseen encontrarse en un abrazo de juego, contacto y experimentación)

… y las ya clásicas pizzas de “inspiración Willaldeana”, en sus distintas variedades. Se las podrá acompañar con ricos vinitos, refrescantes cervezas (rubias y negras) y bebidas sin alcohol.

+ info: colectivoculturaldelviento@gmail.com
Organizan: Colectivo del viento y Tangueteros

jmfbandoneon

Milonga de Sebastián Piana con letra de Homero Manzi.

Grabada por su Compositor en Solo de Piano. En Buenos Aires en 1969.

Fuentel Solo de Bandoneón

Venerdì 27 Novembre 2009 – ore 22.00

Milonga ai Magazzini

Milonga felina. Milonga che fa le fusa tra una cortina e l’altra, tra i passi felpati, acciambellata negli abbracci.  Milonga che miagola e che ammalia, che graffia e che struscia.  Miaaaaolonga che seduce sempre. Sempre.   

Magazzini del Sale
Via del Santo 67 – Messina

musicalizza: Farola
(tandas y cortinas)

ingresso: 9 €
(con prosecco e stuzzichini)

organizza:  HaStalaMilonga

info: Mariapia -  Cristiana – Lia
339 5035152 – 334 9611943 – 320 4627435

mail: hastalamilonga@yahoo.it

dove siamo >>

IMMAGINI milonghe ai magazzini >>

Julia

The London scene will soon have a bright new star, our last milonga ended up being a valedictory for Julia. Although still fairly new to tango, she has put in a lot of effort and has been a bright smiling face we will all miss. We all wish her well and have no doubt she will be welcomed in London they are lucky to be getting her.

The Pant milonga (saturday night) itself was a great success everyone enjoyed themselves; This was not just about the people but the way everyone kept line of dance, refrained from overtaking and the nuevo stuff, also everyone was here to dance. Numbers were down, but I think it is just about this time of year, late night shopping, the bad weather, and full social calendars, all help to keep people away. Maybe when they realise what they missed they will be sorry and come to the next one, still I do not want to paint a bleak picture, there were enough people there, afterall I hardly sat down.

Unusually again there were more men than women, this I think helped. Although here it has been drummed into the men that they must ask the women to dance, we still get some who do not get enough dances. Not tonight though, the only respite the women got was to dodge into the kitchen. The crowd who were here were here just to dance, and any woman who sat for more than a few minutes was soon pounced on.

I never understood why, but Viv often does not get dances, whether the new dancers are intimidated or not I do not know (although she always follows the golden rule; never criticise or try to teach in a milonga). Again though tonight she danced all night, I had to make an appointment to dance with my own wife.

We had some shoes on sale as well, this provided a welcome diversion for all. Although Viv had a small collection of womens shoes, Dave had a quite comprehensive collection with mens shoes as well, so everyone was catered for.

Towards the end of the night we had a “cake dance” for Julia, like a “birthday dance” but it was not her birthday and we felt we had to do something for her. We finished with lots of hugging and kisses. We are a close community and are always sad to see one of our number leave, but we wish her well in her new life and have told her to keep in touch.

If you enjoyed this or any post, please post a comment. I am always happy to hear your opinions, even if we disagree.

Un jueves con tooooooda la onda, … vienen nuestros amigos de Julio&Agosto, y luego toca la Orquesta Típica “Fervor de Bs As”!. y como siempre, seguimos Bailandooooo, que el Tango no se toma Franco!.

Tendremos el agrado de disfrutar del baile que nos brindarán este jueves: Julieta y Pablo.

Y Atención Ajedrecistas!!, Estrenamos Reloj de ajedrez!!, ja! que tal?, te la esperabas?.

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10 entradas gratis a los 10 primeros en postear aca!!

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=11970&post=67808&uid=51777552841#post67808

¿Y después?, Damos 10 entradas 2×1!!, para este jueves 26 de Noviembre, en la Milonga Montevideo, (ubicada en San Telmo).

Con esta entrada pueden tomar la clase de tango (21hs), quedarse a la Milonga (hasta las 2), y escuchar a los shows en vivo.

HORARIOS DE LA MILONGA:

21hs. Clase de tango
22:30 a 2hs. Milongaaaaaa
23:30hs. Julio&Agosto + Orq. Típica “Fervor de Bs As”

La Milonga Montevideo queda en Perú 571, (San Telmo), (a dos cuadras de Av. Independencia), y se lleva a cabo todos los jueves, en Buenos Ayres Club.

La entrada sin descuento cuesta $15

Los posteos serán registrados hasta el día Jueves a las 15hs.

Cuando vengan.. No olviden comprar el disco de Timotteo, (el cual cuesta $15, e incluye una entrada gratis, con clase de tango incluida).

Y Conozcan a nuestro Caricaturista!!, quien les hará una fabulosa caricatura gratis, a quien se lo pida!! (… postée aca o no, es para TODOS).

A RESERVAR ENTRADAS!

Saludos !!.

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Timotteo en Acción!

Esto ocurrió en nuestra gira Montevideana, en el Teatro Zitarrosa

Interpretando nuestra versión de Temperamental
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fmpP0oHvIY

Aca, Yumbeandola un poco junto a Paula Ballestero y Fernando Gracia caminandose toda la pista
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OueiNMhgKIU

Y Aquí Tocando en nuestra Milonga! un Danzarín
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ds0CwjEqfw

I am going to have a little rant.

I read Tango Bob’s post about YouTube and it got me thinking.   I jokingly told Bob that one could possibly learn something from watching videos.  However, most people wouldn’t actually know what to look for.  How would someone know what is good or bad if they are just starting out?  I read a lot of Tango Blogs and a lot of people post YouTube videos of people who they think are wonderful dancers, teachers, etc.  It even happens on Facebook. Being ever open-minded, I usually play the video.  I usually end up watching things that make me cringe.  I have to restrain myself from leaving a comment like: You gotta be kidding me?!  After all, I was a beginner once.  Most of it is nuevo or show crap.   A gancho here, a lift there, an open embrace and kick to the back of your head here.  Need I say more.  That is NOT Tango, and it certainly isn’t the Argentine Tango that I have learned and have fallen in love with.

What particularly irks (and saddens at the same time) me is that a lot of beginners think that this is the real deal, and they all want to do the fancy moves that they see in the videos.  Please, don’t.   Some of what you are seeing is show or stage Tango.  All that acrobatic stuff is for the stage, where it belongs, and not for the dance floor, where you can really hurt someone doing that.  The people who perform stage Tango on stage are highly skilled and trained dancers.  These videos should be labelled with a hazard warning:  FOR STAGE USE ONLY – DO NOT TRY THIS IN A MILONGA.  Every time I see a stage performance like Tango x 2 or Tango Fire I inevitably hear someone say, “I couldn’t possibly do that!” and I am thinking,  ‘You are too damn right about that, and neither should you try!’  I have nothing against stage Tango and have enjoyed going to several performances, but that is where it should stay.

As for nuevo, well, I have done my fair share of that when I started out and didn’t know much better.  I can do it, but I prefer not to.  I no longer take classes because people teach moves.  I don’t want to know moves.   Besides, I’m a follower and I don’t need to know the move!  I just need to know HOW to move.  A YouTube video will not teach you that either.  As for my issues with nuevo, it isn’t that I don’t like people who do it.  I dislike it when people do it badly in a milonga, when they are being annoying and not following the line of dance or are bumping into people.  I do know of people who dance large in the milongas and they are mindful of others, but there are very few of those and they are the exception to what I consider to be the norm of nuevo dancers.

Another thing that irks me about some of these YouTube videos is the music.  One can pretty much guarantee that at least a third (I am under guestimating here) of the so-called Argentine Tango dancing is done to non-tango music.  What the heck is that all about!?  Some of it isn’t even Tango-inspired music!  I just don’t get it and I don’t really want to.  As far as I am concerned, Argentine Tango is about the music and when you dance it to non-Tango music, then it changes the concept of the dance and just makes it contemporary.  If I want to look at contemporary dance, I will go to an Alvin Ailey performance or something like it.

Look, to me, if you dance Argentine Tango to non-Tango music, you might as well learn Ceroc instead.  Ceroc is meant to be danced to any kind of music and I have even danced it to Gotan Project at the Casbah in South Kensington – and that was weird.

So, back to my rant about YouTube.  I don’t have anything against YouTube or the people that put up their videos.  In fact, there are some lovely videos of people dancing Argentine Tango to authentic Tango music.  I am sure something can be learned by watching these videos.  After all, people can learn by watching others.  The other thing people can do is to talk about what you are watching.  I have been very lucky to have more experienced dancers discuss what was happening on the dance floor with me.  This is nice because…and that is not nice because…..  My gripe is when beginners think that just because they see something on a video that looks cool, it must be a good thing to try.  Well, don’t.  If you don’t know how to do something, don’t do it.  Have someone teach it to you instead and then you might just be able to do it without injuring someone.  Thats’s what we have teachers for!  But if teachers are going to be teaching show Tango moves…well, that is a rant for another time!

]]> http://alcirabb.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/milonga-jacinto-chiclana/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:48:29 +0000 alcirabb http://alcirabb.wordpress.com/2009/11/21/milonga-jacinto-chiclana/

Gửi các bạn yêu thích tango tại Hà Nội,

TangoHanoi sẽ tổ chức milonga như thường lệ vào thứ 7 ngày 21/11/2009 tại Rạp chiếu phim Ngọc Khánh.

Hẹn gặp lại các bạn và Tango!

Tango Hà Nội

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Dear Tango lovers,

We’d like to inform you that Saturday milonga’ll be organized as usual on Nov 21 2009 (20.30-22.30) at Ngoc Khanh Cinema- 523 Kim Ma Street- Hanoi (opposite to Daewoo Hotel)

Hope to see all of you!

Hasta pronto!

TangoHanoi

Ci si ricorda sempre dove si è dato il primo bacio.

Dov’eravamo l’11 Luglio 1982.

Dove siamo saliti la prima volta su di un aereo.

Ma dove abbiamo mangiato la prima quaglia?

Dove abbiamo bevuto la prima caipirinha?

Io lo so! Coincide con la prima ed ultima volta che ho visto Tom Jobim.

Al teatro Ariston di Sanremo, ottobre 1989 o 1990 (gra aiutami!).

Si era già carburati da svariati pellegrinaggi all’inferneria, e l’ancora più carburato Carlin Petrini inizia a favoleggiare di uno strano beverone che viene preparato al bar di sotto, nel foyer.

Davanti ai nostri occhietti vispi e curiosi, un signore di mezza età si dava un gran da fare con strani limoni verdi ed un mortaio. Il tutto veniva annaffiato da un generosa dose di un liquido mai visto.

…e noi che si credeva di essere “uomini” di mondo, sbirciavamo sull’etichetta della bottiglia sconosciuta, e leggevamo il nome, che in quel momento rappresentava la quintessenza dell’esotismo.

Ma quanto era buona quella prima caipirinha!!!

Quello che non ricordo bene è il numero di quelle che sono seguite quella sera, anche perchè la sera è poi scivolata nella notte, che si consumava liturgicamente assieme a qualche centinaio di compagni di avventura, in un albergo requisito a tale scopo.

E fino all’alba si mangiava, si beveva, si cantava molto…

…e Flaco Biondini doveva sempre cantare una Milonga da un’ora e mezza…

Ma per tornare a Jobim…

adesso che l’aereoporto di Rio si chiama “Tom Jobim”, mi chiedo spesso se un giorno quello di Asti si chiamerà “Paolo Conte”.

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When I noticed a lady getting kicked in the practica, I of course intervened. A secada is supposed to be a replacement; there is no force attached, and definitely no kicking or pushing. Now our perpetrator replied that he was not doing a secada, but something he had seen on you tube.

Of course this was not tango and I told him so, his reply was that this was a tango guy doing it. I was getting nowhere here and this as I have often said is not my class, so for now I let it lie. I hope he will not try this again, words will have to be exchanged we cannot have the ladies kicked.

This brings me to another subject altogether; It seems that for some You Tube is a legitimate teaching device, I think that this is wrong on two levels:

Firstly; anyone who has tried to learn any type of dancing from videos, discs, or the net will have found eventually it does not work. Your screen will not pick up your faults. You may well assume something is correct and nobody will be there to put you right. Tango uniquely is more about musicality, posture, and a conversation between leader and follower. How on earth can anyone hope to learn this on their own, what you see in tango is mostly an illusion, we invite our followers to move and make the world believe we have moved them with our feet or whatever, see this on you tube and of course you will believe the illusion and try to copy. You tube does not teach you how to lead, how to stand, or how to move.

Secondly and even more importantly, the internet is democratic. Anyone who happens upon this blog that does not know me, only has what I say here as evidence of who I am and what I know. This applies to the internet in general, anyone can put almost anything (decency aside) on to you tube. I could put a film on there telling the world of my financial qualifications and my answer to the world’s financial crisis; would you all close your deposit accounts on my say so? Would you sell me all your gold for a pittance just because I was on Youtube? I think not, but for some reason anyone who posts videos of tango is deemed to be an expert. Some may well be, others not, but the one thing all these videos have in common is, you cannot learn tango from them.

I can’t make Shrewsbury this week, so the normal lively debate from The Coracle will have to go unreported. My next post may have to wait until I have something more to say without the Coracle chat I will be short on ideas. Of course if anyone wants to suggest a topic, I am sure to have an opinion.

Venerdì 20 Novembre 2009 – ore 22.00

Milonga ai Magazzini

Una mas. Una milonga ancora … !

Magazzini del Sale
Via del Santo 67 – Messina

musicalizza: Farola
(tandas y cortinas)

ingresso: 9 €
(con prosecco e stuzzichini)

organizza:  HaStalaMilonga

info: Mariapia -  Cristiana – Lia
339 5035152 – 334 9611943 – 320 4627435

mail: hastalamilonga@yahoo.it

dove siamo >>

IMMAGINI milonghe ai magazzini >>

Venerdì 20 Novembre
Milonga ai Magazzini ore 22.00

Venerdì 27 Novembre
Milonga ai Magazzini ore 22.00

Lunedì 7 Dicembre
Milonga ai Magazzini ore 22.00

Venerdì 11 Dicembre
Milonga ai Magazzini ore 22.00

Venerdì 18 Dicembre
Milonga ai Magazzini ore 22.00

Venerdì 25 Dicembre
Milonga ai Magazzini ore 19.00

Mercoledì 6 Gennaio
Milonga ai Magazzini ore 22.00

Venerdì 15 Gennaio
Milonga ai Magazzini ore 22.00

After living in London for over 20 years, I am moving to the coast.  After two years on the market, I finally sold my house.  I have always wanted to live beside or near the sea and now that will finally happen.  After more than 20 years, I am exchanging the sound of the planes flying over my house at the crack of dawn to the sound of seabirds at a more reasonable hour.

What does that mean for London Tango?  Well, it just means that I won’t be dancing much in London.  I haven’t been dancing much these last six months as I have either been working or spending weekends at the coast.  I am still keeping up the blog and will still be posting Special Events.  London isn’t far, so I might make a trip up to the big city now and again.  Besides, it’s where I learned to dance and love Argentine Tango.  I have made a lot of friends that I am going to miss.  So when I come up to visit, the evening will be even more special.

Life may change, but Tango goes on.  I am going to explore the Tango scene in Brighton and Hove.  There is no Tango where I live.  It takes as long to drive to Brighton as it did for me to drive to Holborn or Chalk Farm or Tufnell Park.  Maybe even less time.  At some point, I will add a Dance Calendar for Brighton, Eastbourne and Hove.  As the Argentine Tango scene is not as extensive as in London, the calendar will also incorporate Salsa and Ceroc/LeRoc/Jive.  I have already danced LeRoc in Eastbourne.  Tomorrow I will be dancing Salsa (my first dance before Tango).  I am already acquainted with people in my new ‘home town’.  That is the beauty of dance.  Dancing brings like-minded people together.  One doesn’t ever have to be alone.  Having a few different dance forms under my belt means that I can travel pretty much anywhere and find some dancing and make new friends.

I have a lot to do with my move and finding a place to live, so I may not be posting as regularly as I had been.  There is still more of Ask Arlene on the burner and I am regularly updating Special Events and the Calendar.

If anyone in Brighton, Hove and Eastbourne want to let me know what is going on in the Tango, Salsa or Ceroc/LeRoc/Jive world, drop me a line with a link to your website.

Happy Dancing To All!

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Zonatango Milonga
Gran Milonga 18 de noviembre
CANTA “VERONA PARETA “
BAILAN JAVIER CORRALES &ANAYANSI MACHEREL
FILETEA EN VIVO JESUS RODRIGUEZ
VENEZUELA 2943
BOEDO, Buenos Aires, Argentina
zonatangomilonga
Sitio web:http://zonatango.blogspot.com/

It must be hard to run a tango scene in a university town. You advertise, work up a good crowd, teach them to be good leaders and followers, then they get their degrees and move on. Anna and John have my admiration for this. We may not always agree about the music, but I will always love coming here and dancing with Anna.

Despite having an 80^th birthday party to go to, we could not miss the workshop and tea dance that they had arranged in Bangor.

Saturday started out filthy, rain and mist, almost no light. Even at a good pace it would take me an hour and a quarter to drive. We decided to take the SEAT my little Suzuki although economical would not be a good drive that low down in the rain. When we arrived at Bangor I was glad, the narrow streets offered almost no parking, and when we found a spot, I was not sure what condition I would find the car in.

So suitably stressed put we arrived in Penrallt church hall a beautiful stone building with ornate wooden ceilings. Greeted by Sharon as a long lost friend (Well it was over 36 hours) and then Anna and john. Of course I also greeted little Leo, can I adopt him as my grandson??  

Sharon did a milonga workshop. She kept it very simple, but I thought it good, that as most of these were very new beginners, they were getting an introduction early to milonga, so hopefully they would not learn to fear it. After a few stragglers arrived the numbers evened out and Viv stayed on the sidelines to help Sharon.

I was very impressed, most of the ladies here had never danced milonga before yet they followed me well.

All too soon the class was over and it was time to attack the cakes. I tried hard to be good, honestly. I am getting close to my target weight, but every time I think I may achieve it I am surrounded by vicious cakes, all determined to make me suffer.

Anna had promised to save me, but Leo was taking up her time, still I did not do too badly.

I got those dances with her eventually and most of the women at some point. I did leave one woman standing when Lola came on; I said that I would return to her when it was over. I don’t get this, why is everyone suddenly playing Lola? I believe that it was played on Strictly, but that will never make it a tango. It is four four time, but it does not even sound tangoish. I am threatening a screaming fit next time it is played.

OK  Sharon played (apart from Lola) all traditional tango, I suspect someone requested it, and lets face it we are outside our realm, keep a low profile.

All in all we had good time, some even said they may come to Chester, certainly all seemed to have a flair for tango, and young people who would spread out across the UK may well start tango scenes all over the country.

More power to you Tango Bangor.

Some carried on dancing but for some the cake was too much.

Corina Herrera y Octavio Fernández en MILONGA10
Pasala de 10 desde las 10 y solo por $10.-

PRAKTIKA8 – MILONGA10
Global
Hora de inicio:
El Sábado, 21 de noviembre de 2009 a las 22:00
Hora de finalización:
El Domingo, 22 de noviembre de 2009 a las 5:00
Lugar:
Club Fulgor de Villa Crespo
Calle:
Loyola 828 entre Thames y Serrano
Ciudad/Pueblo:
Villa Crespo, Argentina

Otra velada de lujo en MILONGA10, esta vez recibimos a Corinita y Octavio, dos grosos que juntos son dinamita! No haca falta decir nada más, solo recomendarles que lleguen temprano ok? 22hs.

No se hacen reservas, las mesas se toman por orden de llegada, además hasta las 00hs. vale $10.- después vale $15.- tenemos tiempo de descuento, aprovechenlo!

If you are a certain age and English (I do not know if this applies to Scotland and Wales) you may remember a time when there was only one radio in your school. This was located in the headmaster’s office and every day at eleven the teacher would come in with a large board with feet and a speaker in the centre. This would be plugged into the wall so that we could all listen to the BBC.

Sad the things you remember, Racheal Percival, Marjorie Eele and especially William Appleby, the presenters of “Music and Movement”. We would all sit or stand doing dance like movements all at the directions of these wonderful presenters. Sadly these days are long gone along with the light service on which they were broadcast.

Thursday night and the beginners were allowed for this occasion to stay with the intermediates. We were lined up on either side of the room and recreated “Music and Movement”. My side of the room were instructed to move to the rhythmical music while on the opposite side they moved only to the lyrical.

Roles were reversed and everyone suddenly started to feel the music. When we coupled up we were instructed to dance with someone of our own level so that it did not matter that we had so many beginners.

So we were asked to just dance to the music as we had been doing, it looked not too bad to me, but stuck in the body of the class it is difficult to tell. Next the ladies were asked to do what they felt to the music. Although hard leading from the front and difficult for the men to follow everyone coped well. The class moved much more slowly when the women led, there was more emphasis on the lyrical, less rushing around, dare I say, more feeling. So next we were asked to discuss with our partner what we had done and then cooperate and do the next dance.

We changed couples and repeated the exercise; still the men do not get it. When asked they say “when we do some thing lyrical the music has already changed”. This of course is why we need to know the music, and why we need the traditional tango that follows a pattern.  We men are simple creatures, keep the rules simple and we can follow them. Introduce complex tunes, mix up the rhythms and we are unable to cope.

So what have we learned?; when it is lyrical, slow it down; know the music, really know the music; and when we slow it down and feel the music the ladies love it.

I have the feeling that some like to make Tango something complex, foot positioning, the embrace, posture, all must be just so. Of course the embrace is important, posture likewise, but everywhere I go now I see people who are getting in an advanced state of stress over a dance. We dance for enjoyment, few classes I have been to have been this much fun and few if any have so reached what tango is all about.

Back at The Coracle we discussed this, how we had thirty people now moving to the music, dancing with each other and yet the room moved in a big wave, not creating gaps nor log jams, simply because we were listening to the music.

I am afraid I got a bit passionate when the subject of teachers came up; it seems after a very short time everyone thinks that they can teach tango. I hear it all the time in classes; beginners try to teach other beginners who have had one less class. Someone who went to a workshop now has all the techniques to teach what they have learned and after less than a year people rush off to set up their own classes.

To be good enough to teach takes a long time, or as in Sharon’s case a lot of work. To teach Argentine tango without knowledge of Argentina is a falsehood and, apart from one notable exception I know of no one who does it well without that knowledge.

I was sitting on the radiator while this went on, and I cooled down when I moved, but my feelings remain the same, I know those who can teach, those who have the knowledge and those who have the experience, and as such I know those teachers with whom I would not take a class even as an assistant. We left it at that, even those who sympathise with my views cannot fully understand without knowing Buenos Aires so there was little point in pursuing it any more, there will always be those who dance tango and those who know tango, I like to think that I may one day become one of the latter but those who have never visited the city of tango never will know tango.

Stefanía Colina y Juan Martín Carrara en la ( 8 )
Vuleven las Clases de Tango y Milonga con Dante y Anshi!
Hora de inicio: El martes, 17 de noviembre de 2009 a las 20:00
Hora de finalización: El miércoles, 18 de noviembre de 2009 a las 3:00
Lugar: Club Fulgor de Villa Crespo
Calle: Loyola 828 entre Thames y Serrano
Ciudad/Pueblo: Villa Crespo, Argentina
Vuelven las Clases de Tango desde las 20hs. y las de Milonga desde las 21:30hs. con Dante Sánchez ( Campeón Mundial de Tango Salón ) y Angélica Avalos, dos grosos y después otros dos grosos: Stefanía Colina y Juan Martín Carrara, ( Campeones Intercontinentales 2009 )
Así que si no venís es porque no entendiste nada ( leé todo otra vez ) o bien porque no te gusta el Tango, pero Tango, aquel que fue tildado de guarango… Bailás?® Dale!!! Corré la Bola!®

Después no digan que no avisé eh?

Nos vemos!

Abraz( 8 )

This Tuesday 17, The Tango Lesson from 8 pm & The Milonga Lesson from 9:30 pm with Dante Sánchez ( Tango Salón World Champion ) & Angélica Avalos, two greats! After, others two Greats, Stefanía Colina & Juan Martín Carrara ( Intercontinental Champions 2009 ) Tango, but Tango! Understand? You know! Dance?® Go! Run the ball!®

Sorry for my English!

See You!

Hug(8)

Jede Tanguera kennt ihn, erduldet ihn, haßt ihn bisweilen: jenen Intervall zwischen den Tänzen, wo man am Rand der Tanzfläche sitzt, an der Bar steht, mit halbem Ohr an Small Talk lauscht – immer in der Hoffnung, aufgefordert zu werden. Im Englischen gibt es hierfür den Begriff des „Sitting & Smiling“, was mit „Lungern und Lächeln“ adäquat, aber durchaus weniger charmant übersetzt wäre.

Der sizilianische Fotograf Micmac71 hat Tangueras beim Warten beobachtet und seine Aufnahmen unter dem Titel „Aspettando un Tango“ als flickr-Album veröffentlicht. Hier ein selbstzufriedenes Lächeln nach der letzten Tanda, da versonnene Blicke auf die Tanzenden. Manche legen schützend die eigenen Arme um sich, andere breiten sie zur meditativen Geste aus. Frisuren werden aufgeschüttelt, und der Spaghettiträger der Nebenstehenden wird kollegial zurechtgezupft. In seiner Gesamtheit ist daraus ein wunderschönes Mosaik der Weiblichkeit entstanden.

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Gửi các bạn yêu thích tango tại Hà Nội,

TangoHanoi sẽ tổ chức milonga như thường lệ vào thứ 7 ngày 14/11/2009 tại Rạp chiếu phim Ngọc Khánh.

Hẹn gặp lại các bạn và Tango!

Tango Hà Nội

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Dear Tango lovers,

We’d like to inform you that Saturday milonga’ll be organized as usual on Nov 14th 2009 (20.30-22.30) at Ngoc Khanh Cinema- 523 Kim Ma Street- Hanoi (opposite to Daewoo Hotel)

Hope to see all of you!

Hasta pronto!

TangoHanoi