Let the embrace do the talking
By yy on Feb 19, 2010 in Musings, Social Dancing | 0 Comments
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, [...]
By yy on Jan 26, 2010 in Music, Social Dancing | 1 Comment
With the recent increase in milonga venues locally, I foresee a demand for more DJ’s who can arrange decent and danceable music. Now, drawing on my personal experiences and from reading sources online, here’s a basic list of skills I consider necessary for anyone starting out*:
Understand the role of a DJ.
Awareness of pros and cons [...]
By yy on Jan 12, 2010 in Musings, Social Dancing | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By yy on Dec 15, 2009 in Social Dancing, Videos | 0 Comments
Not really in the frame of mind to put down any deep thoughts these days.
Here is a somewhat amusing clip about Finnish tango, when placed in the context of Finnish social behaviours as described in the clip. However, I think the real “moral of the story” is to just keep an open mind [...]
By yy on Oct 2, 2009 in Social Dancing, Videos | 0 Comments
Happened to catch this after the Dog and Mother-in-law clip. In theory this should work, and solve those nagging problems from buying ready-made shoes? Perhaps any ladies out there can let me know how it goes?
