Tango commuter

One of tangocommuter's new year resolutions is to write shorter posts. This is simply practical: time is always short. But this resoluti...

A rather grim-faced picture of Nestor La Vitola has headed my blog for too long. Afraid I have no control over the photo chosen. Time for a ...

It's wonderful that Tango and Chaos , Jantango and Irene and Man Yung have done so much to widen our experience of tango tradition by ...

I know 'choreography' isn't a good word in social tango circles: performance of planned, well-rehearsed sequences, danced with g...

Silvia's just published another extract from her conversation with Tete here . You have to scroll down to find the translation: the se...

Teteysilvia.blogspot.com is the blog started recently by Silvia Ceriani as the home for her archive of material from the years she danced w...

Tango commuting seemed unlikely on Thursday morning after what the heavens dumped on us overnight, and I envisaged a weekend keeping myself ...

Since YouTube began just over five years ago video has become an incredibly valuable resource, thanks to everyone who's made and uploade...

MILONGUERA SECOND MAJOR MEETING of CIGALES in Provence each May at TOULON (12/13/14 May 2011) - South of France. (From the YouTube channel o...

I was talking recently to a friend I hadn't seen in a milonga for a while: she's lost her job and is struggling to make ends meet on...

London tango becomes somewhat somnolent at midwinter, and I've been looking around for alternatives. This, from the Milonga de Angel (l...

Carlos and Rosa Perez were teaching at Carablanca milonga a few weeks ago, where I filmed them. I can't find a website for them, but the...

I love this! Every now and again a tango video comes along that makes complete sense of everything. If you ever have doubts about tango, how...

There's been a German theme recently. I was honoured to host the interview with Melina Sedo, which was very interesting and illuminating...

Here's the final part of Cassiel's interview with Melina Sedó. The original German of this part is here . Melina Sedó and Detlef Eng...

I've also been meaning to post some links to Melina and Detlef dancing. Here they are dancing in Salon Canning. As far as I'm aware,...

Many apologies for not getting Part II of Tricia Bruce's translation of Cassiel's interview with Melina Sedó onto Tangocommuter for ...

I got a surprise email from Cassiel, a German tango blogger , asking me if I would be willing to post on Tangocommuter a translation of his ...

A brief note to point to Jantango's post on Anibal Arias , who died recently. She draws attention to his album, La Guitarra Romantica de...

In the BBC Argentina programme Ignacio Varchausky says something that I found quite curious. He made a number of very interesting remarks, a...

'So tango is still telling Argentines who they are, just as it did 100 years ago. That's amazing.' (Banning Eyre, presenter.) I...

This is a link to the first of two BBC Radio 3 programmes on the music of Argentina, which is about the music of Buenos Aires, tango. The s...

Silvia was the dance and teaching partner of 'Tete' Rusconi, who died suddenly in January. They started working together in 1996, wh...

A milonga with a succession of partners I love dancing with, and then a sunny morning. Two things that make me feel good. And on a sunny mor...

Hang in there: normal service is about to be resumed. Yvon Lambert was given an old palace in Avignon to run as a gallery. It happens. He...

The Avignon festival was originally of drama, but these days it takes in dance and the visual arts. This year, the lucky artist was the Majo...

Yachts It's difficult to conceive of huge wealth. The houses of the very wealthy tend to be hard to see, and anyway everyone needs somew...

I've been longing to get away. But 'south' is 'le sud' not 'el sur': this is one long post with subsections so y...

I've just heard that a Dutch student and friend of Pedro Sanchez has set up a website for him, at Pedromilonguero . If you've met Pe...

'El milonguero' Terry has just got back from BsAs with three videos, which he's asked me to upload. Two are of Pedro Sanchez, an...

A great series of instructional videos is appearing. They are hilarious because they are just so imaginatively made. A pity that getting thi...

Just a thought: there is a dance that's improvised to music, that many of us are familiar with from childhood, and certainly from our te...

Sitting watching the dancing at Carablanca on a recent Friday evening: it's started to look and feel really good. A good proportion of t...

It's the 75th birthday of Pedro Sanchez on August 27th. Feliz cumpleaños, maestro! & to judge by a couple of recent videos he's...

OK, I think this image would cause howls of protest... ...while this image might well be illegal as a poster... but this image is a movie po...