Andrea Missé
2012, like all new years, is supposed to start with a bang. Unfortunately the tango world has lost yet another of its stars – and a great personal teacher – Andrea Missé. Having hosted a couple of her previous tours to Singapore with Javier Rodriguez, no words can describe how saddened I am by this tragic news. Thank you for your guidance and generosity. RIP.
My prayers go out to her family, some of whom I understand still remains in intensive care at this moment.
Dance of the champions
This is a clip of the dance by current and previous champions at the recently concluded Salon section of the annual World Tango Championship held in Buenos Aires. The Japanese couple seen towards the end of the clip is the champion for 2009, and they will no doubt become household names in some dance circles in no time. However, the uniformity of the dance styles and music interpretation seen on this stage does seem worrying to me…
Curious about music
According to the logs, occasionally I seem to get a lot of hits on the lists of CDs that I maintain on this blog:
Well, just to satisfy my curiosity, if you are one of those who has gone through many of the links, perhaps you can leave a comment or two and let me know what you were looking for exactly? 🙂
All about Tango in Singapore
With increasing ease plus a zero-cost(!) set-up provided by many free social networking tools currently available, there is suddenly a number of useful online sources (not necessarily overlapping) to tango happenings in Singapore. Together they will be more accurate than the once-reliable website which has been slow to keep up with the updates in recent months. Well, here are all of them in one place:
- Facebook: Tango Singapore
- Facebook: “Bailamos Tango en Singapur” (no longer active, 2012)
- Private domain: Tango Singapore
Of course, there is also the long-standing list of milongas and practicas in Singapore in this blog which I will try to keep up to date.