argentine tango
Taxi Dancing with Rommel Oramas
I’m on my way to another Tango Festival and I am excited to visit with old tango friends and to create new ones. It is usually during a weekend like this that followers will commiserate and share the hopes and desires for their evening milongas. Their desire to dance all night long, to connect, to …
Negotiation
negotiation |nəˌgō sh ēˈā sh ən| noun discussion aimed at reaching an agreement I am always repeating to my students that Tango is a negotiation. There is always a negotiation in dance both in the learning and doing of it. And in a couple’s dance like Argentine Tango, i think there’s a lot of it! …
911 Tango Impact
In preparation for the 10th anniversary of 911 tango friends, Jennifer Bratt and Ney Melo were interviewed for a segment of Yahoo! Vitality, “Second Act: A Webby Award-winning series about real stories celebrating life, passion and reinvention.” As Ney found tango after the events of 911 in NYC, that day also helped to force …
El Mundial
It has been a week since the closing of the Mundial de Tango in Buenos Aires. This year marked the 9th World Argentine Tango Competition in Buenos Aires. Only 9 of them so far which doesn’t surprise me considering the majority of those people who started tango around the same time I did are self-proclaimed …