Tango commuter

Well... sadly enough they are hardly new. Newly released, and not that newly either. Newly noticed by me, more like. The wonderful Myriam Pi...

... Tango and Chaos ! On the off-chance I searched for it this morning, and there it is again. Wonderful to see it back. However it might no...

I wondered again recently if I could listen through, chronologically, to all the Troilo recordings I have. On the surface that’s far from im...

About a month ago I remembered a clip I’d seen on Rick McGarry’s great Tango and Chaos blog, which I hadn’t visited for a few years. I foun...

I commented briefly on Gavito dancing Pugliese above, and found several links to statements he made about tango. I also found a link to a bo...

I’ve edited the earlier post on Alberto Dassieu, changing the embedded video for another I preferred. And soon after I wrote it I discovered...

Monica Paz is one of a few Buenos Aires-based tango teachers whose aim is to teach people to dance tango - rather than to teach a lot of tan...

It's so rare that something sounds too good to be true and is neverthless true. From February 2018 the Norwegian budget airline is st...

Pugliese isn’t easy. It's often more complex than other tango, and we don't hear it so much. One tanda a night if you’re lucky. L...

’It’s so crowded tonight’ said my partner. I glanced around. At a guess there was room for twice as many couples. ‘Not really crowded’ I rep...

It’s taken me a while to write about this video. It was filmed late in the evening in a well-lit milonga and lasts between 15 and 20 minutes...

Thinking over Carablanca’s 25-years of providing opportunities for tango reminded me to look again at a Guardian article I read at the begin...

Many congratulations to Carablanca on its 25th birthday, celebrated at its Christmas party last night. Carablanca as such hasn't been ru...

I recently got this link from a friend, Gideon in Zurich, with info about Ricardo Viqueira's visit to the UK this month. Thanks Gideon...

A while ago I heard about this source of tango on YouTube . I’ve only just checked it out, and I find I’ve been missing out on a good source...

A couple of years ago I wrote about something that got called the ‘ secret milonga ’. (There were a couple of subsequent posts too.) In effe...

The music started, emotional, intense, melancholic. I wanted to dance long before I wondered which orquesta it was, as usual. Slowly, it cam...

UPDATE Mónica's classes at Negracha have been moved elsewhere. Please check with Brigitte, brigitte@paris-tango.co.uk – 07818 808 711....

Betroffenheit is the German word for a condition now recognised as PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder, the suffering human beings go throu...

I left a recent London milonga evening feeling a bit unsettled. There’s often a couple or two who dance competitively rather than socially, ...

Ricardo Vidort passed away in May 2006. I’m still hoping the website will appear this year, but since Jantango told me that much of the mate...

Some good sense about social tango has appeared in a national newspaper. An article in the Guardian about social dancing features Carablanc...

Many thanks to Anon for the following comment: 'The linked pirate site indeed has a huge archive, but the legality of the stored mater...

Thanks to Endre for this recent comment on my previous post on tango in London: 'Our community in Budapest somehow has the same symptoms...

The year-end is a time for thinking back, and I've been talking with friends about their impressions of this last year in London tango. ...

This is the trailer for a recent 50-minute documentary with English subtitles, featuring conversations with two great singers of the golde...

Jantango very kindly passed on a link to some videos of Muma's visit to the US in October. There's a long radio interview, and seve...

Sad news that the great singer died a couple of days ago. Aged over 90, he sang with Caló at age 16, then for Di Sarli, Fancini-Pontier and ...

I remember this as one of the rules taught when tango was danced open or partly open. But does it apply to tango danced close? I'm not s...

Good news! Marina2x4 is uploading videos from Buenos Aires again after seven months. She's uploaded some of the best clips of real tang...