Tango commuter

Mimmo Paladino is an international artist who still lives in the small south Italian town where he grew up. There's an exhibition at a ...

I was about to post more on Italy when I noticed Cherie has favourited a video with Javier Gramigna. Took me a moment to realise he's...

I love this! In the first moment I thought; this guy looks slow, ponderous, clumsy even, and look how he leans over his partner. & then...

The paintings are made of flicks of paint, brush marks. The impression is that the painters were trained to make brush sketches. There'...

Finally someone's made a film about the social tango of Buenos Aires, and got it released. In fact it was the finalist at the Via Emili...

Of course, I should have checked YouTube before I wrote about Alfredo 'Tape' Rubín . Everything's on YouTube these days, on seve...

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...