Tango commuter

I always enjoyed the clear, spare sound of the Angel D'Agostino orchestra without wondering how it was created. This clip shows how: it...

M. Godard could never make anything simple because he's too aware of complexity. These six 1/2-hour videos are stories and history, but ...

The Seven Deadly Sins by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weil (1933) a ballet chanté from the start, first choreographed by Balanchine and sung by...

Checking out 'El Flaco' Dany clips I came across this one of a night out at El Nino Bien. Not much of El Flaco, but a good record of...

Deadline met, by a few hours. The show is in Canary Wharf.

I'm still not really at home in milonga so I love watching people who dance it easily. Here's a couple of them: The video calls him ...

Working 12-hour days to meet a deadline means the radio tends to be on more than usual. & this time there was a test match in Antigua to...

One evening recently at 33 a friend alarmed a few people: a milonga was playing and she suddenly started to jump up and down, saying 'On...

Dancing after visiting BsAs: a few recent comments from friends made me look back at the post I wrote after the first milonga back in London...

I just chanced upon this video in the hall of Humberto 1 1462. You get a glimpse of the entire hall after a marvellous candombe by Facundo a...

You hear lots of stories. TV and rock swept Argentina in the late 50s and 60s. The Argentine musician Joaquín Amenábar says that tango decli...

For a while I've been trying to find time to compile a chronological list of the great names of tango, of musicians and singers. Informa...

A man who's spent his life literally putting his life on the line, with an obsession with the Twin Towers since childhood, when they wer...

Ms H asked me about the step I was trying to describe on 17 January. The video I was watching is an old teaching video which isn't on Y...

F for Fake : Orson Welles enjoying himself on Ibiza in the company of two fakers, Emyl de Hory the great art faker, and Clifford Irvine who ...

In case Valentino seemed in poor taste, here's how it should have been done. El Gallego and Marta dancing Canyengue. Many years ago, El ...

I skipped over this clip a few days ago because the beginning is useless, and the dancing starts with milonga... But it's worth watching...

Tango with spurs. There was an interesting discussion here a few weeks back about the meaning of 'milonguero/a', which focussed on ...

Byzantium at the RA. Having exhausted myself on Friday evening I could have been in a more receptive state. Low lighting levels: necessary o...

Your first milonga in London after you get back from BsAs is going to be a busy one. Word gets around. Everyone wants to ask about it, to da...

I knew I'd once seen an Antonioni film that convinced me he was a great director: I just couldn't find what it was. L'Aventura w...

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. & ...