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Field trip
Will be going to Kuala Lumpur for the weekend to attend the “Extended Tango Weekend with Nazareno Listur Borda and Mariana Mendina Gourgues”, organised by Tango Malaysia. Incidentally, this couple recently competed in the World Stage Tango competition that was part of TREX Games 2008, Busan, Korea - you can read about the competition from [...]
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Slow and steady valses
A short and quick one.
Here are some suggestions for “slow and steady” valses, that are supposed to be suitable for people learning to dance to vals rhythm. As I don’t have all of these tracks (or the right versions), the usual disclaimer YMMV. However, it is sometimes rather refreshing to see other people’s [...]
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Cacho Dante
It seems that one of the well-respected milonguero and teacher of the milonguero style - Cacho Dante - now also has a personal website! Hopefully this will make it easier to locate his classes from now on.
For those who have yet to meet him (me included), here is a short scene from the movie The [...]
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Thoughts on teaching
I recall a comment made by Andrea Misse in one of their group classes with her and Javier Rodriguez (J&A for short) during one of their visits to Singapore, perhaps sometime last year!?.
It was something to the effect that, when teaching group classes, they do not start with the intention of trying to completely [...]
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History of Tango music
For the music lovers out there, here is one person’s (Max Valentinuzzi, who played piano for the various bands in Buenos Aires between 1946 and 1956) narrative on the history of Tango music. This is a fascinating 2-hour radio program which consists of 6 mp3s and is amply “illustrated” with many tunes.
The Brief History of [...]
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