Tango commuter

I always considered that I kept to the beat until dancing with a portena who insisted I should be more careful: I made a note of this earlie...

I just found this on YouTube; birthday celebrations of Porteno y Bailarin 2006, with Carlos Stasi (who runs the milonga) as The Leader, and ...

A friend emailed that she returned from BsAs with five pairs of shoes. I'm returning with one – and 20 CDs, but that's 20 CD boxes, ...

La Calesita at dusk. 40% probability is less than 50%: despite dark skies and heavy humidity no rain fell, not even a rumble of thunder in t...

In the milongas there are usually a few more women than men so it stands to reason that the women are going to be more assertive in getting ...

Christmas doesn't last long here. The party starts at midnight on the 24th, you sleep it off the night of the 25th and go back to work o...

Christmas in Buenos Aires starts lunchtime on xmas eve, as in Europe, but the similarities probably end there. I planned to walk with a hot ...

Tuesday night is Porteno y Bailarin. Ana Maria Schapira's class has been taught by Silvia, a friend of hers, while she was teaching in ...

Before I left a friend told me someone she knew had moved to BsAs 'because the girls there are more beautiful'. I've been wonder...

Watch Tete turn: like all the good local dancers he turns as smoothly as a figure hanging on a string, but with an energy, an impulse, often...

Milonga class at Porteno y Bailarin: in the month I've been here I can remember just one class with more women than men and a few with e...

Last night it was warm and humid, Sunday morning there's a bit of rain. I walk over to San Telmo as planned, but it's cold, and the ...

Out to Nunez again for La Calesita, an outdoor milonga. 'Nunez again' because La Calesita is held in a municipal park right next doo...

I decide Saturday is gallery day. I head for Malba , as it's recommended by the guide book; a fine modern building with a well-displayed...

This too should follow on from the previous posting: the release of the 14 officers has been overturned after a public outcry on the grounds...

“Dance to express, not to impress.” I guess that sums it up. (This should follow on from the end of the previous posting. The blog order isn...

No Oscar class today. I get to El Beso and find Mary Ann outside. We have no electricity. An enthusiastic Danish woman asks if we have Oscar...

Strange how much people can differ from their photo or video images. Oscar, for example turns out to be almost a head taller than me. & ...

Sunday begins with light showers. Early summer weather here is changeable: it gets too hot, it rains, it's cool, then it heats up again....

Finally got over to Salon Canning, Friday night milonguero class by Alicia Pons , classically trained, who started dancing milonguero with T...

Plaque for Julio Jorge Lopez, Plaza de Mayo. In the post on ESMA I wrote that one member of the military broke ranks and gave evidence. Apol...

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Having finished writing up ESMA, I decided I needed some tango, so I went to El Arranque, an afternoon milonga in central Buenos Aires. It...

This is the difficult one. ESMA, Escuela de Mecanica de la Armada, the naval engineering school, became one of the main detention centres in...

Mary Ann told me that 'lifting' is done by breathing in. Susana Miller talked of the body as like a bandoneon, the unwinding twist o...

My late nights get later and later: 12.30, 1.30, and last night, 2.30. A good evening at Porteno y Bailarin, three tandas! Two with the ...

Oops, got my Castellano wrong. I've been calling the code of communication in a milonga the 'cabeza' which means 'head'....

Hit in the face by a hot wind, hot and heavy with humidity, as I came out of Oscar's El Beso class this afternoon. Not unbearable, but h...

It's beginning to hot up again here. The rain was a week ago, and the 'aire aconicionado' was silent until yesterday afternoon, ...

Parking is impossible in the narrow, busy microcentre streets during the week, so anything requiring a stationary vehicle, such as moving h...

La Ideal Interesting the persistence of the Beatles here. I think you're more likely to hear them in public than tango. T-shirts, poster...

"Plant a tree, Bring up a child, Write a book, AUTOMATE YOUR CURTAINS: Systems for roller blinds in fabric, plastic and aluminium....

A milonga called Mi Milonga at the Ideal Wednesday night. MCd in English and Castellano, which gives away the game. A tourist evening: a tan...

Wednesday afternoon class with Oscar. La pisa es tu amiga (?the floor is your friend), stay down on it and stay firm. A simple sequence but ...