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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Observations’ Category
Nose in the air, indeed..
Posted in BsAs, Observations on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Retrospect
Posted in Observations on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Good job..
Posted in Observations on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Old essay
Posted in Observations on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Live music
Posted in Observations on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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. [...]
Relajar! Already…
Posted in Observations, milonga on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
