Companion

This guy seems to be much further along the trail than I, but has the same flavor of angst.   I appreciate how one commenter mentions his post Buenos Aires blues.

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Some heavily cropped images..

An anonymous tango tourist tries to improve his technique… 

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Last Tango in B.A.

It seems maudlin, to write a post like this.  A real tanguero - something I aspire to, but am not at this writing - can toss this off like a zen calliographer can toss off a scroll of Confucian couplets that can hang in a museum.   But …
I wound up sharing a taxi to Viruta´s, [...]

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terminar! … or living with women

…Is what you hear when class is over.   I may not dance tonight, having failed at my good faith efforts at a siesta.  I love to dance but I do not love so much the environment wherein one competes for dances.   One must take one with the other, though.
I will try again to sleep, and [...]

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ex cathedra & the plan

I have had maybe two experiences here that fit into the “spiritual” column of the balance sheet, one praying at the national cathedral on my first or second day, and other today at a very old dominican cathedral which for sheer antiquity and beauty rivaled any such structure I have seen.  That first experience had [...]

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molineta not-so-secrets etc.

In normal walking system, lead a right molineta close or open with your left going first outside your right, her left.
In cross walking system,–
Exercise in changing walking systems with close embrace, using the upward lift as the lead, a bit different than c. teaches
In close embrace walking, change the system to cross, then do a [...]

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Mi dama

Paula F. - if you come by this way, then I offer again my thanks for your help.   Gracias a vos.    A haiku for you.
 Step, pause, let it flow.
Advice to follow, maestra.
Thank you very much.

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Notes from Thursday

I have no idea why the previous posting went beserk with fonts.
See this in your head:
1.  Lead back steps R.
2.   Small side step  with left to left as he leads her into a back ocho to his left.
3.  Step forward outside her with your left ($) in a sort of curving motion as she ochos [...]

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Bantam Class & the Greenhouse

I used to have a greenhouse, which I built from a kit.   It wound up blowing apart in a severe storm, as this kind of structure is kind of inherently unstable in storms.     So, likewise, the tango steps I have been learning.   Actually delivering on them outside of a quiet salon is much different than [...]

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24 hours ago..

..I was dragging my self home from Virutas.    A spur of the moment decision by one of the Scandanavians here that she wanted to go dancing was behind this, but she didn´t want to go alone, her first time, etc..    This was like, 11 pm.    I had awoken from my post group lesson siesta, and [...]

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