Tango commuter

(I've renamed this...) I also hear that the monthly Nijmigen milonga might appeal to some and not to others, particularly if the others ...

I have to confess: I've never listened much to Gardel. I used to avoid vocal tracks, and you don't dance to Gardel or hear him in mi...

A good friend, who has danced all over Europe and Buenos Aires, and London too, and whose judgment I'd trust, has assured me that the be...

I wasn't sure whether to link this video , not least because partners might start turning up at milongas with sticks, and not need leade...

So after the warm friendly rush of being in a London milonga again, my first real doubts creep in on the floor. I tend to keep to the line o...

Blog postings are sometimes like wayward children: you have a direction in mind for them, and off they go and do something else. I blog to k...

An afterthought to the previous post. I knew that tango was recorded from 1910 onwards, and read names of recorded artists – Juan Maglio, Ed...

July 1917: Caruso performed in the new Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the vast and beautiful opera house opened just nine years earlier to re...

'Anonymous' left a comment asking where regular walking classes could be found in London, and I'm afraid I don't know. Walki...

Somewhat sad words from Javier Rodríguez and Andrea Missé: this is also from El Tangauta . JR: Eight years ago, Europe was the place to be. ...

The current edition of El Tangauta includes some recollections of Tete, and Sylvia recalls some observations from his notebooks. "Danc...

Returning from a visit to the city of soft breezes can be strange. Everyone who knows you will be queuing up for a dance, which is nice, but...

I discovered this in late December when I still watched Tete often in one milonga or another, and it's stayed with me. I'm not quite...

The question gets asked frequently enough. I think my reasons are obvious enough, but it's interesting to think over them once in a whil...

I know of Martinez, journalist, novelist and university lecturer, only through his novel The Tango Singer . The narrator, trying to follow a...

Antichrist has been widely reviewed and gossiped about, so even people who haven't seen it have probably made their own mental film of i...

I've been dreaming again, about a London milonga this time. A smaller, more intimate venue, big enough for 15 to 20 couples maximum, sin...

I've been looking forward to this post. The film celebrates an exceptionally happy and enjoyable tango evening in Buenos Aires, an asado...

There are lots of stories about the cabeceo; the ones that worked, the ones that didn't, the ones that worked but only just, the ones th...

In case anyone has missed it, Tango and Chaos recently updated with an extraordinary and very rare piece of video. It's here . Essential...

Thanks to the weather, I arrive towards the end of the first workshop on tango melody. I'd always assumed the structure of tangos was A-...

Jantango has just posted her response to the recent death of Tete : it consists of a quote from the open letter to the tango community that ...

...so I awoke to find myself walking down the steps from a jumbo jet onto the tarmac at Heathrow at 7am. It was bitterly cold and raining. W...

It's been difficult: I contacted both Alberto and Pedro Sanchez before I arrived in the city of hot winds. Pedro invited me to meet him ...

I was very sad to hear the news of the death of 'Tete' Rusconi this morning. I first came across him with Sylvia on YouTube about fo...

Another section of Alberto Podestá's performance at Porteño y Bailarín, Buenos Aires, 2009.

When I was in Buenos Aires last year I heard that Alberto Podestá was to sing at Porteño y Bailarín. This amazed me: the singer, who sang wi...

These are the last of the videos of Pedro Sanchez demonstrating his relaxed, musical tango. The vals is below: there are also two milongas, ...

I uploaded the Pedro Sanchez vals above (i.e., below), and almost immediately got an email from YouTube to tell me that the music track is ...

I first heard about Pedro from Tina's site while she was living in Buenos Aires and working with him as a teaching assistant. There wer...

Confiteria Ideal should be one of the truly wonderful milongas of Buenos Aires. You can practically scrape tango off the old mirrors and har...

Downtown architecture: I lived just up the road. Too bad the beautiful ornate pink minaret on the roof gets lost in the view of the whole. Y...

This image always astonishes me, not only for what it shows, but because of where it is. It shows a female figure, well over life-size, her ...

Salon Canning is one enormous room. I don't know why it feels like a room: normally a room this big would be a hall. Perhaps because it...

Cacho teaches 'milonguero' tango. He's easily accessible at his group classes, which are normally three nights a week, shrinking...

Porteño y Bailarin was a great favourite last time I visited the city of cool breezes. The place was heaving with excellent dancers: it was ...

There's a fascinating interview with the great icon of what gets called the 'nuevo movement' in the most recent issue of El Tang...