Tango commuter

& the winner is... (are) Irene and Man Yung, of course. Un abrazo grande is on its way to you, to be used within one month of the date o...

Found it! 'He held tightly onto his partner and had her do a headfirst somersault.' I knew I'd read this description of a tang...

Talking with a partner recently who's not danced long, but has a lifelong (literally) love of tango music: 'In one class I was told ...

Chris, thanks for taking up the problems of openness, but I'd distinguish between criticism, which I welcome, and derogatory remarks, wh...

I read Melina's recent post announcing that she was enabling 'comment moderation' because of anonymous threats and insults. I...

So, that music, 'bluegrass meets canyengue', that so intrigued my ear with a refreshing, heart-felt sound, even if it's not the ...

Here's Allison having a great time on the floor at Cachirulo in El Beso just last night. Last time I saw her dance was with Pedro Sanche...

Chopin! Thanks to Halbert for answering my query as to whether there were waltzes in the minor in European music. I was thinking about danc...

I've always loved vals above anything else, but it's taken me five years to notice something that has been staring me in the face ev...

' His majesty's pleasure … The King's Speech sets used for gay porn London property used to film Oscar frontrunner was previou...

I was fascinated by Miriam Pincen's account of her life in tango for several reasons. First, if anyone hasn't watched it yet, it con...

Yesterday, in Tangocommuter's (in need of attention) garden...

... Oktango have just announced that from today onwards they will be opening the Welsh Centre every Friday from 6.30 to 11pm for... a practi...

Sound systems: as I said in my original post , I'm sure many London sound systems are of good quality. The problem is the arrangement of...

Back early last November, here , I was delighted to post a three-part interview with Melina Sedo, who teaches tango along with her partner, ...

I made a mistake a few weeks ago: I titled a post ' As good as it gets '. I had a feeling at the time that this was unwise. It highl...

There's a kind of rumour that sound systems in BsAs are not that good. Does this suggest that sound systems elsewhere, in London, say, a...

At Tate Modern: Gauguin's mask-like faces; masks, idols. Faces dream, rarely look you in the eye, even in the Brittany paintings. More s...

Here's someone I really look forward to seeing again, Héctor Pellozo. (I always thought he was actually called Héctor Cachirulo!) Seeing...

Irene and Man Yung commented on height in dance, something we are all aware of, particularly with partners we've not danced with before...

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...