Tango commuter

...something I definitely haven't seen in BsAs. (From Ken Russell's Valentino , with Anthony Dowell as Nijinsky, and Nureyev as ...

Re-reading my earlier posts I realise I've made classes with Sylvia sound a bit grim. They are intense, but there's a lot of laughte...

Martha and Manolo always seem to start with a class mostly of beginners, and at the end everyone is dancing a bit of canyengue. Martha teach...

The city's a struggle as ever, but I notice how it's being improved. There are new buses on the streets, new 'bendy buses' t...

Just some notes: sadly, I'm not going to get to meet her this time around either. She has a website with videos and a biography, which ...

Thursday, Lujos again: Alberto and Paulina are there, and I'm seated with Pedro. I get some great dances. It's crowded, but there...

Means what? I read it in a blog somewhere.(Apologies: I can't remember where.) Does it mean learning a style? & like which porteño? ...

Sylvia's classes are tough. Having your tango picked apart, that dance you've so laboriously put together out of what you've lea...

After I'd worked in India for a while, someone told me they'd thought I was Indian, a Kashmiri from the north, and therefore paler-s...

Before we begin, he launches out on the orchestration - 'orquestación' is the word he uses - of the 30s and 40s. 'It's the m...

Croissants – but they disappointed me: they never have the crisp lightness of the originals. After a while I began to wonder if they were ma...

I'm beginning to realise how much I habitually dance without total attention to the music: in time to the music, that is, but not totall...

Lo de Celia is warm and intimate, very appealing. Great sound quality, rather a varied selection of music. A long tanda of Chacarera then Pa...

I try to get in touch with Cacho Dante to find out about classes, as his name doesn't appear in any recent listings and I don't see...

After the much-loved Maipu 444 location had to close down, the Saturday-night Cachirulo moved out to Villa Malcolm. There's doesn'...

The lunch was very amiable, warm and friendly, with a lot of laughter, but what sticks in my mind was how it ended. I have a slight dread of...

I really can't get enough of teaching at this level: she's perceptive, and expresses herself clearly, even forcefully in English. Sh...

Later that evening, to dinner with Alberto and Paulina. A very relaxed, friendly evening and a great dinner with a couple of friends of the...

Pedro shouts out joyfully across the street as I get out of a taxi. It's been 18 months since we last met, and he looks as sturdy and re...

On my last visit I went to a class at La Academia Tango Milonguero at el Beso, and didn't enjoy it. Susanna Miller taught: she came acro...

After Maipu 444 closed, the Sunday night Lujos relocated to Alsina 2540, which is bigger than Maipu, with a square floor of quite sticky til...

Several Argentines have mentioned the UK riots in the past few days. They seem really astonished and concerned, as if England, in their mind...

Martha and Manolo: I took just three or four canyengue classes with them 18 months ago, and I'm astonished that Martha spots me across t...

I always look forwards to walking into that huge room again. Anna Maria Schapira's class: she recognises me, even remembers my name. The...

The moment I walk in I see Alberto and Paulina Dassieu on the floor: so good to see them again. I catch up with Alberto a bit later, a big a...

I arrive during the rock'n'roll tanda. After Sunday night it's reassuring to notice that all the dancers are well-dressed and we...

I've not been to Gricel before. Everyone looks assured and enthusiastic and well practiced: it's how people dance when they dance a ...

I'm not taking part in the milongueando, but got invited to the showing of a film by French film maker Odile Fillon, called Tete and Sil...

It seems the milongueando starts tomorrow. I'm used to coming here and seeing the very harmonious world of BsAs tango, where music and m...

Flying southwest, flying steadily away from dawn and back into the night, the dawn just hangs there: that band of warmth grows no bigger aft...

In a comment to the previous post, Chris left a link to a video of Ricardo Vidort with Jill Barrett, which I watched again. Then, as I was l...

Quite a few of us find tango demos a wearying waste of good dance time. I've no doubt the various organisers know this, and may even sym...

'Dance the tango respecting the music; dance the tango respecting the other people in the milonga; dance the tango with feeling!' ...

Cherie wrote about feet a while back, which reminded me of some thoughts on ankles. I hope she wasn't intending to move on to ankles......

I've no idea who the Tango Collection might be when they are at home, or where their home might be, and I hope someone can fill me in on...

A very welcome Argentine visitor at Carablanca a few Fridays ago. Maybe it was knowing where she was from that made the sound quality seem u...

There seems to be a misapprehension, that I don't like women learning technique. Of course I don't have problems with that! But clas...

Every now and again an interesting conversation starts in the comments and seems worth expanding into a post. I recently posted on 'lead...

I try to find something to read in French. It has to be a novel, as I can follow a story without having to look up every other word. I'...

Arles has extensive and well-ruined Roman ruins. The Greeks built theatres to watch Sophocles and Euripedes: the Romans, we are told, built ...