Let the embrace do the talking
By Louis 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?
By Louis on Oct 1, 2009 in Social Dancing, Videos | 3 Comments
Over at Simba Tango, there are videos of (within the last week as a matter of fact) performances by the reigning Salon Champions hailing from Japan from the recently concluded Tango Championships. I actually prefer these few dances compared to what they were doing on the big stage. I suppose here they are simply more [...]
By Louis on Sep 28, 2009 in Musings, Social Dancing | 0 Comments
Thanks to Ray Rudowski from Hong Kong and with his permission, here is part of the transcript (will update once he has translated all) of an interview (in Spanish) of Gavito by Miguel Zotto. Here Gavito shares some of his views on tango, role of women and his “struggles” during his early days of teaching. [...]
By Louis on Sep 4, 2009 in Social Dancing | 0 Comments
Had an unusual experience a couple of months ago. Despite the extremely slow start to the night – it seems people are choosing to arrive later and later for the week-night milongas – I still ended up having a good night of dancing. Halfway through the night, since I am always trying to adopt the [...]
By Louis 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 [...]
