Have you ever experienced the longest milonga? Mine probably wasn’t the longest for reasons that you think. I don’t talk very often about the music at milongas, but a DJ can really make your night or make your night really long. I recently had an experience at a Milonga where the cortinas were endless. Honestly, […]
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What an exciting opportunity we have! Come join us for Pichuco, the movie and Milonga night! I have been contacted by a close friend of the director to offer to show this documentary on the tango orchestra leader, Anibal Troilo, nicknamed, Pichuco. He heard the magical instrument of tango, the bandoneon, when he was little and
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Don’t look at me as just a teacher but as your personal cultural translator. During my recent stay in Boston I took a workshop with a music anthropologist at ARTANGO in Brighton, MA, hosted by Fernanda Ghi y Guillermo Merlo (highly respected dancers and teachers, who are now based here). 60 students were in attendance
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In Saturday’s intermediate workshop I tackled the idea of dancing to modern tangos and I specifically was referring to a few bands that relate themselves to tango in some way ie: remixing, or through lyrics vs alternative music that you may decide to tango to. The result of that class left students with a desire
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Maybe the ‘bad boy” of tango music, maybe seemingly complicated music, but when you hear Pugliese it sounds quite dramatic. The intermediate /advanced class this Saturday May 18th is entitled Suspension in Pugliese. What does that mean? Are we talking early Pugliese or later Pugliese? or Who’s Pugliese? As a teaser, let me tell you
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