Departure from Buenos Aires
My Buenos Aires…
The city of such extremes.
Another tanda?
Archive for October, 2009
Haiku #23
Posted in BsAs, Diary, Poetry on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eve of departure..
Posted in BsAs, Diary on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My last trip here, I went for an obligatory trip out to Viruta’s on my last day, and had a single tango set….just to end the trip properly, even for my low beginner’s level. Now I am in a different frame of mind.
Around the corner from my guesthouse is a pseudo-Irish bar; about [...]
Saturation point
Posted in BsAs, Diary on October 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I find myself in yet another group class Saturday after a day looking for trinkets and such for those I am thinking of at home. The combination of figures should not be that hard for me; each element something I can readily do. Yet the mind, or the body, rebels, and [...]
Bonus round
Posted in BsAs, Diary, Notes on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My next-to-last session with my instructor dealt again with creativity, posture, and also introduced leading women’s sacadas, which are a cool waltzy-kind of thing to add on.
A group lesson later in the pm with an individual who had been a guest instructor in the states and whose floor I had promised [...]
The black T-shirt rule
Posted in BsAs, Diary, Notes on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A (short) visit and one set this evening at Nino Bien, a historic floor. Last night found me visiting the milonga Maldita on Calle Peru. It was good to see an orquestra tipica, live, with Argentine young people doing what their parents and grandparents before them have done. Fatique, [...]
Session VIII
Posted in BsAs, Notes on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I knew it was a different kind of lesson happening when I came into the studio and Narcotango was playing.
Some emphasis today on things like proper form, etc. but the main focus was creativity and combinations on the fly.
The trick to creativity, again, is to be thinking of small things (minute changes) rather than [...]
The micro-colgada
Posted in BsAs, Notes on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I have found myself in a colgada it is usually because of a mistake on the part of either lead or follow, rarely do I lead this since I have not integrated this figure. However the maestra shows me today an easy micro-colgada which will be useful in these “oh-crap” situations. [...]
More rabbits, Session VI
Posted in BsAs, Notes, sacadas on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In combinations in close that start with a volcada, the embrace needs to “slide”. Practice walks out of a volcada into walking to the follow’s (l).
If the balance is falling apart in a close embrace combination, it is probably because yopu have not adjusted the embrace appropriately as the combination evolved.
One should [...]
Yoopers
Posted in BsAs, Diary, Notes on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A real “Yooper” is someone from the “U.P. – the “Upper Penninsula” of Michigan; the most rural part of my home state. It’s hard to define, as there are people like myself who want to be “cool” and say we are yoopers when in fact we have only spent some small parts of [...]
Haiku # 34
Posted in BsAs, Poetry on October 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Buenos Aires rain
A soft and constant drizzle
cadence of thunder.
