So many things have been happening as of late and I’m trying to catch up with my blogging. There was my father’s 70th surprise party (and he was surprised!) and Thanksgiving, came and went, grading papers (its the end of semester again) and now I’m off to Breitenbush Hot Spring Retreat Center in the mountains […]
Women’s Tango Retreat and the Pelvis Read More »
A few weekends ago now, ASU Argentine Tango Club hosted their annual fall tango retreat. They invited Meng Wang (pronounced “mung”) as a guest instructor and we all went to Sedona for a weekend of tango fun! It is a great way for the ASU students to immerse themselves into the dance and also to
Performing Socially versus Performing Read More »
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
Taxi Dancing with Rommel Oramas Read More »
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!
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
Why is your butt sticking out so far behind you? Have we decided to embrace the caricature of tango? Your lumbar spine is so curved that I have lower back pain for you. Are you being taught this way? I have a really hard time believing that other female followers are teaching followers to stick
Ladies! Please stand up! Read More »
In addition to teaching in the community, I teach tango at ASU’s School of Dance in the Institute for Design and the Arts. Formally teaching two levels of social Argentine Tango at a University is a pretty unique situation. Students receive two credits towards their degree for each, even repeatable course they take. During a
Teaching Tango at the University! Read More »
What you see on the internet is rarely what you get. The pictures always look nice and big too! I have also found that it doesn’t matter how many questions you ask unless it is in print somewhere, like a contract, it won’t exist like you think it does. Even sometimes the contract doesn’t matter
Reminders about finding housing in Buenos Aires Read More »
THANK YOU! To all who came to the ASU TANGO FESTIVAL and to the TANGO 101 classes. Everyone had a wonderful time even through some glitches. As ASU Tango Club’s first festivalTAngo FEstival they learned so much and are excited to host again next year. I have posted a link to the VIDEO of Rommel
GREAT FEST – and now more Practica! Read More »
We are sorry that the weekend at the Nest in Jerome was canceled due to more snow. We are looking at some weekends coming up to head to possibly Sedona to revisit the material we were going to teach.
No Nest… possibly returning to the North in a couple of weeks? Read More »
I was recently interviewed by ASU Calendar of Events and they made a little video! Daniela’s Interview
Just in! Daniela’s Interview! Read More »
We were fortunate to see the ballet Manon in the Teatro Colon. www.teatrocolon.org.ar/index.php We bought “expensive” tickets as I didn’t want to sit in the nose bleed section of the theater. It was pouring rain. We arrived with time to get situated. As we waited in line to climb 4 flights of stairs (at which
Why is visiting bodegas and trying wines so exhausting??? Yesterday we visited 3 bodegas with wine tastings and crashed Achaval Ferrer’s tasting room for our “picnic” lunch. The gang at Catena Zapata We have hired Walter and his 15 person van to take the 8 of us around for these 3 days. So yesterday
What a delicious day!!! Read More »