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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 [...]

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Following ..

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 [...]

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Joy!

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 [...]

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This link is to an article by a Catholic sister and tanguera.

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Country boy..

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 [...]

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Retrospect

A physician I work with, a native porteńo from Buenos Aires, was discussing tango with me, as we sometimes do. I was pondering the wisdom, or not, of continuing to pursue this tango phantom. He told that should I continue that when I am an old man I will [...]

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Good job..

You know that you’ve done at least a not half-bad job as lead if your follow breaks out into happy laughter after the dance.

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Old essay

Recent private correspondence causes me to dig up an old essay, written while still very much a tango newbie (much more so than I still am )
There was a famous European artist who was discovered, literally, by “accident”. He was in some coffee house, and a patron had spilled coffee onto the [...]

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Live music

I read once of a successful show producer who had either purchased or rented real diamonds for the girls in his production to wear. He was told that he could have used rhinestones – fakes – for so much cheaper, and nobody would know the difference. [...]

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Relajar! Already…

A private session with C. today and G. (спaсибо!) dealt with close embrace posture and form. Sigh… It seems I am forever going back to these basics and “polishing the apple.” Yet proper form is the spring, or well, from which good dancing comes [...]

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