Tango commuter

Another week, another milonga... and a table with four young Argentine teachers who don't look at all bored, and who enjoy social dancin...

The floor is busy with people enjoying themselves. Mostly close embrace: London tango seems to be settling into close or close-ish embrace,...

Full moon, I believe, in German. Probably the most memorable Pina Bausch work from the film, with a massive boulder midstage, and water ever...

There's excellent tango in Napoli: I'm told Tete used to visit to teach whenever he could, and always enjoyed the city. But I sta...

Main street, Benevento, late afternoon.

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...