YYQuest Tango Blog

Although I had some opinions about this during my trip, I didn’t imagine they’d turn into a full-blown post until I read some recent comments yesterday.
The background is that in SOME milongas, the “archaic” (my choice of word, not the phrase used by the originator) custom of seating men and women separately* – in particular, [...]

Just read this morning on Jantango’s blog that Tito passed away in January. Seems that January 2010 is turning out to be a bad month as far as milongueros are concerned…
While Tito may not be a household-name to many people, like for example Tete or Osvaldo Zotto were, I remember him fondly even though we [...]

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 [...]

Some comments I read recently on Facebook got me thinking.
Why do people persist in bringing in foreign instructors once the tango community has reached a semi-sustainable size? I mean, isn’t the role of providing instructions largely met by local instructors**?
Secondly, for a businesses, schools, etc., bringing in overseas instructors makes perfect business sense as [...]

Last week saw the passing of two icons in the tango world, “Tete” Pedro Rusconi (74) and Osvaldo Zotto (46). Since I don’t know either personally, I won’t try to add to the great number of tributes that are already out there.
However, the following as reported by Jantango are excerpts from a letter distributed in [...]