Knowing your music
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 I dance to Pugliese and, of course, feel “free”!
Ney Melo: “Stay put until you can feel the music ‘bursting’ through and the sensation to take a step becomes overwhelming…”
Hsueh-tze Lee: “Play with the melody and slide into the next position instead of doing it in a hurry.”
Here’s an excellent example of dancing to Pugliese from the recently concluded Seoul Tango Festival. Not a dramatic piece like La Yumba, or Gallo Ciego, and with very simple (well, relatively speaking… 
) footwork but for me the most beautiful part is the mutual inter-play with the music. Need I say more!
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Technological Tango
Finally, a real of example of nerdy gadgets for Tango! Actually I am rather doubtful of the benefits of these devices but hey, it’s cool to bring some VR into the real world, no?
ps. For those less familiar with geeky acronyms, HMD = head mounted displays and VR = virtual reality, of course…
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First clip
After having linked to a few clips from youtube in the past, well, here is one video I have uploaded – my first, as a matter of fact. This clips showcases Milena Plebs and Demián GarcÃa, taken during the New Year’s Eve milonga in Melbourne.
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Poema-s
Over at Alex.Tango he has compiled a list of performances on YouTube using the song “Poema”. It’s good to see different interpretations collected in one place.
My favourites? I really enjoy Javier and Chico’s interpretations.
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