Let the embrace do the talking
By yy on Feb 13, 2010 in Musicality, Videos | 0 Comments
This is not the first time that I have noticed this. It seems often that when a interesting song appears in one performance, all of a sudden you will find a number of couples choosing the same song!? The song in question is “Tu Corazon”, by Donato Racciatti’s orchestra.
I first heard of this song [...]
By yy on Dec 3, 2009 in Musicality, Videos | 1 Comment
Been pretty busy with various events recently, so have not been updating this blog.
I do normally enjoy watching videos of Jorge Dispari, not so much to copy his style, but more for the enjoyment of seeing the smoothness in his giros and musical interpretation. As for this particular clip, I like the fact that [...]
By yy on Sep 9, 2009 in Musicality, Techniques, Videos | 0 Comments
Tango vals is something that I have always enjoyed, since the beginning of my tango journey.
Here is a clip of “some old-timers” (well, they are Osvaldo and Coca who incidentally are the winners of Tango Salon category in the Tango championship in 2004) dancing to a Canaro vals, showing many of the typical qualities [...]
By yy on Aug 14, 2009 in Musicality, Social Dancing | 0 Comments
During a conversation I had a few weeks ago, it suddenly occurred to me that it is actually very difficult to explain what is/is not “Tango Nuevo”? Just to be clear, here I am talking specifically about the styles typified by people like Fabian Salas, Chico, Pablo Inza, not so much the styles danced by [...]
By yy on May 21, 2009 in Musicality, Videos | 0 Comments
While Pugliese has been my favourite for many years, from time to time I have felt inadequate in doing justice to the beautiful music and hesitate to ask people to dance when a tanda comes up. These days, I like to recall the words (paraphrased) of two teachers I took classes in the past whenever [...]
