Tango commuter

You say Vesuvius, I say... Vesuvius the classical name; Vesuvio in modern Italian. You can climb it, but it's a long way. Buy a bus t...

I've just noticed a post by Silvia Ceriani on her Tete y Silvia blog from a while back. It's about a recent album called Reina Noc...

This blog is mainly so I don't forget things: things I read or see, events, things like the sequences I learned from Tete and Silvia, th...

My first night in the city after a long day's travel from a 6am dawn in the south of France: I go out to find my first Neapolitan pizza...

Great to read recently how Melina challenged a poor dancer , was rebuked for it, and was pleased to see later that he'd taken the critic...

Jantango recently published the full text of a `statement' on tango by Ricardo Vidort : I found an extract from it a while back and quot...

'Louis' kindly left this comment on my post a day or two ago: 'In case you have some friends coming to Asia in the near future...

So the tide has come in again. I may well be – I hope I am – the last person in Europe to catch up with these videos. They've been arou...

Internet searches are a bit like the tide: you never know what's going to turn up amidst a mound of flotsam and jetsam, and YouTube re...

Jantango made this comment to my post on El Beso: '2xtango.com posted the announcement on July 26 that El Beso will reopen in August...

I guess we all have a sense of who we think of as the greatest living human, and Nelson Mandela must be at the top of most people's li...

I awake from a nightmare on the streets of Buenos Aires. I've arrived back in the city, and it seems to be a future time. There's ...

'I really like dancing with you but I want to do those big decorations I learned in the class. I never seem to have time to do them.....

I bought a film camera recently and it reminded me of my first camera, a present. My father sat me down and explained photography, explain...

Eleanor Powell (1912 – 1982) grew up as a ballet dancer and gymnast, but found work hard to get, so she took up tap and became one of the ...

Google threw this site at me while I was looking for something else. Wonderful! Did you know that with just 450 hours of theoretical and ...

The recent arguments on Tango UK about classes have been a source of entertainment to many of us. This blog was mentioned in flattering ter...

Carablanca has another extended evening, with guest DJ La Rubia from Argentina. Dancing 8 - 2.

I've been looking forward to Nur Du since late last summer when I managed to book just before it sold out. Pina Bausch met Tete i...

The opportunity to spend four minutes in the company of Muma as she recalls meeting, dancing and teaching with the late Ricardo Vidort. It...

Sitting at a London milonga with two friends who have recent experience of Buenos Aires. It wasn't a great night; not a lot of people...

Well worth keeping an eye on Bendtango's channel : there's another video of Muma dancing with Ricardo Vidort that appeared there...

It was great to meet up recently with a friend I'd met in BsAs. Of course we went out dancing, and had time to chat about tango and ol...

...and tango181 (Bendtango) has just uploaded another short extract of Ricardo Vidort at the milonga Bien Jaileife in July 2001. Fasci...

Janis has very kindly drawn my attention to a new video of Ricardo Vidort, always a cause for celebration! & what a video! Ricardo and M...

Since we're on the topic, here's Tuesday night Cachirulo at its new home, Boedo Tango, San Juan 3330. Looks good, reminds me of Maip...

So the rumours that have been swirling around the last few weeks are true: El Beso has been closed down. Jantango has confirmed it . I sho...

I hear that both Alberto Dassieu and Ricardo Viquiera are in Switzerland this month. Here are Alberto and Paulina in a great video from ...

Don't believe everything you read in the papers... or on the internet, and especially in blogs! I must correct what I said about the mus...

Recently, for one evening, as a trial, Carablanca milonga in London decided to dispense with a pre-milonga class and use the time instead fo...

I keep watch for friends on YouTube but hadn't checked out Pedro Sanchez for a while. There's one new video, posted last October. On...

Many thanks for the comments on Meeting Myriam . As often happens, there's a lot there that's interesting. As to the embrace, I wa...

It made me so happy to see this. Cacho is a great teacher, and he teaches group classes several times a week. Or he used to teach. Last ye...

Meticulous and precise, as a teacher and in approach to dance. Ricardo Vidort was neat and precise in his movements. I'm not sure if she...

One of the pleasures of living in the Congreso district is the discovery of extraordinary Belle Époque buildings. Most of the city is recent...