Tango commuter

In case anyone within reach of Paris hasn't seen this... SPRING! PARIS! TANGO! Tete Rusconi and Silvia Ceriani , legendary teachers of t...

Fernando E Solanas went into exile in Paris in 1976, and returned to Buenos Aires when democracy was restored in 1983. He wrote and directed...

...not the film but a cultural import, tango, and its social background. If we hang out with good dancers, listen to the music and let it ca...

Every film Kiarostami makes is different, inventive. Life and Nothing More , in which a young Iranian meets a beautiful girl, claims to be a...

Same time as last year and the year before... No surprises there. Cox's orange, morello cherry and lilac and clematis.

William Forsythe again. We are invited on stage at Sadler's Wells, in groups, round tables on which card models of skeletons are joined ...

The untied shoelace is a recurrent tango nightmare. It is usually noticed early in a particularly intimate dance with a favourite partner, t...

Strange that I've come across a number of older-generation teachers and dancers since I left Buenos Aires in December! A few of them are...

Great! Two recent films on how the musical tradition is being continued: Si Sos Brujo with Emilio Balcarce, and El Ultima Bandoneón with R...

Thanks to Jantango for the reference to the article about the shortage of bandoneóns: it is here. I said that the Arnold family 'conti...

Many thanks to David Bailey and Ghost for organising the practica last night. There are plenty of milongas in London and too few practicas, ...

A few films involving tango have been made recently: I've seen two, but there are others I know just from YouTube. El último bandoneón ...

On 21 March, under the heading 'Alberto Dassieu', I posted some dreams of a London tango festival. I called it the first London tang...

A room guide in the BM sticks in my mind, but not in much detail. By the late Bronze Age in the Levant, cities had developed and prospered o...

A Paul and Michiko night, not as crowded as I expected although it was Bank Holiday weekend. Talked with El Milonguero Terry about the dynam...

Thanks to MsH for reminding us of Amster's blog. I read a bit of it a while back but his account of Muma's class is more recent. M...

'Strut your stuff' is an Anglo-American synonym for 'dance': dance = display. Which, of course, dance always has been, on so...

If you want to listen to the Orquesta Escuela, better to go here. The concert footage is great, but the sound isn't wonderful. In the p...

Si Sos Brujo , 'if you know magic', is a tango composed by Emilio Balcarce, and it's what bassist Ignacio Varchausky was told wh...

...when there are visitors who haven't been house-trained.

Siobhan Davies started making dance in the 70s. The first piece I saw was the stunning 13 Keys to Scarlatti, played live, upstairs in the A...

Since links don't always work well out of 'Comments', here are Eva Garlez and Alberto Dassieu giving a demo in El Beso during th...

I'm planning the first London Tango Festival. The star attraction won't be the choreographer of a Broadway show, but probably Tete a...

Tango: Baile Nuestro ( Tango Our Dance if you are looking to buy it) is an Argentine film from 1988, an imaginative film, an ambitious fil...

William Forsythe: American choreographer who's worked in Frankfurt for many years; not to be confused with an Australian showtime choreo...

It sometimes happens on a not-too-crowded floor that the dancing is more perilous than on a crowded floor, and Carablanca was a bit like tha...

Historically, if you were a leader your elder brother taught you to follow so he'd have someone to practice his leading with, or your mu...

Like the Bill Douglas trilogy, and made just a few years later. But whereas Bill Douglas is closely autobiographical, and thus about the fil...

You can still visit the Barrio de Tres Esquinas: Rick McGarrey has a whole page on the song, with a full translation: he describes a recent...

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...