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The programme for the Pina Bausch company in London, June 2012, is here . You can book there as well. Book, now, for June 2012? Yes! Putti...

I've enjoyed the documentary Si sos brujo very greatly, and in particular the modest, enthusiastic and very youthful presence of Emilio ...

I danced recently with a young woman from Buenos Aires who started tango just last summer, and spoke excellent English. An interesting persp...

I admit that the connection between some rather North-American-sounding books on the virtues of hard work, and Osvaldo Centeno dancing tango...

Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success suggests that 10,000 hours' practice is the key to success in any field; 20 hours...

Back in the mid-1980s, when UK TV still showed contemporary dance, I watched Cafe Muller, fascinated, on a small, black-and-white TV; Pina...

A fascinating CD has been released: I've just come across it in Spotify and it seems to have been released just two days ago on April 28...

Alejandro Chaskielberg was named Sony world photographer, just this evening, April 27. No, me neither. It turns out he's from Buenos Air...

I've been busy with an exhibition , which has sadly deprived me of tango time. But not for much longer! In the meantime I've been ...

Tango dancers who've learned how to dance in front of mirrors; do you recognise the category? Like, so many of the younger teachers comi...

I remember where I was when I first saw photos of the images in the Chauvet caves... I opened a newspaper, and there was a full colour sprea...

& 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...