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Monday, 10 February 2014

Ricardo Vidort in Rome

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Thanks to several friends who alerted me to this video of Ricardo Vidort , uploaded recently to YouTube. Four dances from Rome, includi...
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Sunday, 2 February 2014

Silvia Ceriani

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It's looking likely that Silvia Ceriani will be in Europe at the end of May.  In the UK in July she already has bookings as DJ ...
Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Les Indes Gallantes

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Some wonderful, kind, beautiful, public-spirited, good-natured person has uploaded the whole of Les Indes Gallantes by Rameau, the 18th-c...
Sunday, 12 January 2014

Enriqueta Kleinman 1953 - 2014

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Very saddened to open my laptop this morning and find the following brief email from Jantango :  Enriqueta died January 9, 2014, in her ho...
Friday, 10 January 2014

By Invitation Only - Redux

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It's taken me months to realise that the title is open to misinterpretation, which perhaps is why some people objected. It might su...
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Wednesday, 1 January 2014

Feliz año, bonne année, felice anno, glückliches neues Jahr, с Новым годом, an nou fericit, 新年好, ハッピーニューイヤー

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Happy new year to everyone! (Milonga La Calesita, December 2008. A memorable place to dance on a hot December evening. At that time, ...
Wednesday, 18 December 2013

'My beautiful illness called dancing Tango' – Alberto Dassieu

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There's a translation of the first part of Alberto's life story on Irene and Man Yung's blog : they knew him well. The rest of i...
Saturday, 7 December 2013

Alberto Dassieu: October 13, 1936 – December 5, 2013

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My Tango is Salon style. My style of dancing is elegant, subtle, with rhythm and poetry. (Mi tango es el de Salón. Mi estilo es elegante,...
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Saturday, 23 November 2013

Ricardo Vidort and Luisito Ferraris: videos

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I came across this a mong MullerPatricia's clips : s he d id n't recognise the dancers, but anyone familiar with the informati...
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Thursday, 14 November 2013

Luisito Ferraris again

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Back in 2009 I re-posted sara4tango's video of Luisito Ferraris and Mirta Tiseyra , which delighted me (I still find it breathtaking) a...
Tuesday, 5 November 2013

'Sophisticated use of the basics.'

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The great animator Richard Williams, who won two Oscars, one of them for Roger Rabbit, has compiled a massive series of 40 DVDs on animat...
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Thursday, 24 October 2013

A tango dream

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I dream again about tango. A group of friendly, good-natured people gather for a milonga. But first the floor has to be cleared. It's...
Sunday, 13 October 2013

Learning from dancers

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It's often said that one of the problems of learning from dancers, especially the older generation, is that although they dance wonderf...
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Monday, 30 September 2013

You dance with your feet; I can see you learned in London!

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...Pedro Sanchez said to me a few years back . It wasn't intended scornfully: h e was just trying to get through to me how tango is dan...
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Monday, 23 September 2013

'Tango is more than music. It is the window to collected memories...'

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– attributed to Homero Expósito, author and poet, a few years younger than Troilo, with whom he wrote tangos. The quote seemed to follow on ...
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Thursday, 12 September 2013

More from another world

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I've been writing some notes for a friend who's visiting Buenos Aires soon. I've done this a few times and I always want to a...
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Saturday, 7 September 2013

Report from another world

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I Skype a friend visiting Buenos Aires: she's been to classes wit h Alicia Pons. Was it about hyperactive ankles? I joke (badly) . ...
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