I repost this from my personal ‘blog:
Have finished Paul Coughlin’s Married but not Engaged, and it is as great and essential a read for single Christian women as his No More Christian Nice Guy. I was heartened to read of his explorations in tango dancing with his spouse, and his use of describing this tango [...]
Archive for July, 2008
A “cross” post
Posted in Observations on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Observation about close embrace milonga
Posted in Observations, milonga on July 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Milonga style is my worst form; I simply don’t think and improvise that fast. That having been said, I think that a simple close-embrace milonga style is the easiest to teach to a non-tango dancer – simple cruzes and cortadas in the line of dance, assuming a comparably sized follow. Doing it [...]
Tango to Evora II
Posted in Video on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This piece on youtube, which appears to my amateur eye to be somewhat choreographed, is done to the music of Tango to Evora by Lorena McKinnon, a favorite piece of mine mentioned in the last posting.
Tango to Evora
Posted in Music on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here.
Viva Uruguay!
Posted in Uncategorized on July 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A non-tango friend sends me this link about dancing tango in Uruguay, across La Plata from Buenos Aires.
Classical..
Posted in Notes on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A session with Jake about musicality was exsquisite, with emphasis being placed on listening to various Golden Age greats, particularly Biagi, whom I plan to get to listen to. As is the case with most tango knowledge, the half-life was short. But in this class a great deal of creativity [...]
Floreos, or “florid”
Posted in Notes on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Carina says that when someone can do floreos well, she will give them a “milonguero diploma.” I think such a one might be deserving of that. Simple steps, hard to do elegantly. I will not attempt to annotate the steps, but simply note for my future review to [...]
A time to dance (Ecclesiastes 3:4)….
Posted in Images on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…and a time, I infer thus, to refrain from dancing.
I seem to be heading towards a tango slow down, or perhaps even a stand-down, while I attend to other matters relating to getting my house in order on a number of fronts. I intend to continue my walking and posture drills even [...]
Sandwich trick
Posted in Uncategorized on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Low cost glamour: A secada while you lead her into a sidestep to your left; she sandwiches you. The, leading her then into a back step (perhaps a circular boleo, or other adorno…) as you come forward and sandwich her. Resolve in any manner that fits the music and [...]
Dorrego Moon
Posted in Poetry on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve moved this from a “page” tab to here, and created a “poetry” category.
I wrote this poem while in Buenos Aires this past January after witnessing a nighttime open air milonga at Plaza Dorrego in the barrio of San Telmo, where I was staying. It took about fifteen minutes and provoked quite [...]
