One of the persistent mysteries of the tango scene, to me (as a leader) is the whole deal with the lady’s shoes with high heels. I can get how they love them (I know someone who came back from Buenos Aires with 13 pairs). It’s just hard to envision what it must be like to [...]
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mystery…
Posted in Observations on July 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Quantum tango
Posted in Observations on May 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A successful tango dancer I know happens to work in some kind of physics; I’m not sure which. But I observed to him yesterday at practica that just as the various models of physics have been discarded and rebuilt from the ground up over the centuries — say, Galileo and Ptolemy are no longer regnant; [...]
Taxonomy of tangueros and tangueras
Posted in Observations on March 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here I found someone attempting to classify diverse types of tangueros and tangueras. Enjoy.
Contemplations..
Posted in Observations on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In response to my last post about the “evolved etiquette” of tango, I am chided by a favored follow and challenged about some of my ideas. Thus I have considered some things more carefully. I think what I was trying to express was something more and less than what I did. There are follows whom [...]
Close(t) embrace
Posted in Observations on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A little over a week ago I had a kind of “tune up” class in close embrace. I have found that combining some of these lessons along with habits picked up in Buenos Aires that this has improved my close embrace technique; a weak spot for me. Last night I allowed a follow to cajole [...]
Nose in the air, indeed..
Posted in BsAs, Observations on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just as each dance, and each dancer, is different, so is each milonga. Each of these entities are such because of their unique experiences, traditions, personal issues, etc. And this is part of the natural order and evolution of things. Rule of thumb: If I can comfortably wear a black T-shirt to the milonga, then [...]
Following ..
Posted in Diary, Observations on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I read long ago the account of a man who had sailed solo round the world – Robin Graham, at the time the youngest to have done this. When he returned to his home port he had a profound epiphany of how the world was round. He knew this, of course, as a navigator. But [...]
Joy!
Posted in Music, Observations on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While in BsAs at a group class the instructor asked the group: Why dance? And people put forward their various reasons. I answered: “Por alegria y senoritas” – my honest response. That was, in fact, well received. It so happens as one gets deeper into tango that the bit about meeting people of the opposite [...]
Theology and the body
Posted in Observations on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This link is to an article by a Catholic sister and tanguera.
Country boy..
Posted in Music, Observations on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am, at heart, a well-read and well-travelled hillbilly from a two-blinker town in rural Michigan. Thus it is no surprise to me that I should think it just a swell idea to tango milonga style to American country/western music. I’m not the only good-ole boy around who thinks this. The 2/4 rhythm of that [...]
