Let the embrace do the talking
By yy on Jan 22, 2010 in BsAs 09, Musings | 4 Comments
This was meant to be the last post related to my trip to Buenos Aires in 2009, which unfortunately I never managed to complete satisfactorily, till now.
“Why do we dance Tango?”
To many people, and I am presuming that you are at least keen enough to have devoted some time to take classes to learn to [...]
By yy on Sep 1, 2009 in BsAs 09, Learning | 0 Comments
To add on to the main lessons I learnt from BsAs, here I attach a short list – to serve as a reminder for myself – of the important technical things I picked up, and need to revise…
Group classes at Escuela de Argentino Tango
steps and leads that can be used for milonga (as in the [...]
By yy on Aug 27, 2009 in BsAs 09, Learning | 1 Comment
I have been meaning to write a summary of my experiences of BsAs. This is a quick attempt to try to capture some of the most important lessons (majority below is from the classes I took) I learnt during the one-month stay.
Dance freely. This is a concept I cannot stress enough. In particular, 1) [...]
By yy on Apr 30, 2009 in BsAs 09, Social Dancing | 2 Comments
After attending a variety of milongas during my brief stay in Buenos Aires (from the ultra traditional to something from the left field), it seems that there are two types of “milonga cultures”, for lack of a better term. By the way, I am not suggesting that they are mutually exclusive, but only that some [...]
By yy on Apr 30, 2009 in BsAs 09, Social Dancing | 4 Comments
The following is a list of the milongas I had a good time at (or not, as it were). It’s not a very “scientific” study but simply my experiences during a 3-week stay. However, having said that, I want to add one qualifier that, as with any public event, it is really the luck of [...]
