Tango commuter

I love this! Sometimes I come across a tango video that really lifts me up, and this is one of them, uploaded very recently, although t...

This link is here so I don't have to go looking for it again. Two extraordinary musicians from the same time and place, Buenos Aires.

I'm enjoying the soft, gentle, almost hesitant embrace of another London partner... and suddenly feel something is missing. I experie...

Women step back too, or at least they ought to... London tango seems to me to be between eras. Generally, people learned and stil...

There were several comments about the proposed Ricardo Vidort website, which was laid out by Jantango , and remains currently unpublished...

We started to talk about the back step. My partner claimed that good leads make deep backsteps, which she maintained gives energy to the da...

Many thanks to Mike Lavocah for taking the trouble to email and correct me on the story of Troilo and his arrangers. He writes: ...

Many thanks to Jantango for posting links to two interviews with Ricardo Vidort . Both are full of insights both into tango and into human l...

Very sad to read Irene and Man Yung's post about the death of Martha Anton earlier today. Canyengue classes with her and Manolo were al...

(Please check out this later post .) I received a comment on my earlier post telling me that an 82-minute film about Troilo, called s...

There seems to be something missing in the tango world, something I can't find anywhere, and it's foxtrot. We have it from older da...

(Please check out this later post .) 'TodoTroilo', the available recorded works, consists of 464 tracks out of the 480-odd that w...

A friend got back from Buenos Aires recently and emailed me. It's such an enthusiastic, warm email that I couldn't help asking if I...

Jantango sent a comment on my post Did Ricardo Vidort Teach? She knew him to dance with so I didn't want to hide her comment in the ...

-- I'm asked. Yes, he was the best ever! He taught people to stand, to walk, to embrace, to move. He taught people to dance, to enjoy...

I didn't intend to write more about Normarin1's videos but then I watched this one and I wanted to link to it so I can find it aga...

I wrote here about the kind of control organisers of Buenos Aires milonga have, which is rarely visible since the rules are by general agr...

Norma Marin has a YouTube channel, Normarin1 , to which she uploads films of Buenos Aires milongas. Most evenings she goes out dancing and ...