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December 2016
The birthplace of tango: discovering Buenos Aires
Tango is deeply rooted into the history of Buenos Aires and its immigrants. So to truly understand tango and its origins, one needs to look at the city's fascinating history. How much do you know about Buenos Aires? Let's time travel and see how it all started....
Is it a milonga next?
Let me guess and say that you are addicted to tango and to milongas, these evenings where everything comes together like magic. Well, do you know how a milonga evening is structured?
Class video & notes – 18/12/2016
Dimension: Size - Theme: Steps for crowded dancefloors
In this class, we focused on small, playful steps that can be used for slightly more rhythmical tango pieces or on crowded dancefloors. We started with the versatile and pretty step we call promenade before moving on to one of our old time favourites - a double cross with rebounds.
Caminito, little path forgotten by time….
Caminito is a small alley in La Boca, Buenos Aires' industrial and commercial harbor. It also is a famous and very poetic tango song. Humming along already?
Why did men start to dance tango together?
Here’s a fascinating account on how men traditionally learnt to dance Tango in Argentina, the difference between practicas and milongas, and the importance of changing roles by Christine Denniston.
Tango, orange and feathers
Tango has always fascinated Europe, starting from the early days of the dance - to the point that it actually influenced Paris fashion!
Class video & notes – 14/12/2016
Dimension: Size - Theme: Steps that travel
In this class, we looked at steps that travel. These are useful as we normally try and keep the flow of the milonga going, only stopping when we run out of space ourselves. We saw a couple of steps and figures that move, either forwards for the leader or more unique, backwards for the leader.
52 years ago, we said goodbye to Francisco Canaro…
Over time, Francisco Canaro became such a significant part of tango, that referring to him became part of common language in Argentina. In the 1950's, a radio program coined a phrase to refer to any extremely old event: "When Canaro already had his orchestra". Another popular say was: "He's got more money than Canaro".
Class video & notes – 11/12/2016
Dimension: Size - Theme: Varying the size of steps
In this first class of our short term, we had a look at how to vary the size of basic steps, before moving on to how the leader and the follower can both take different sized steps whilst maintaining a nice connection. We saw one of our favourite tango salon step, a little cadencia, which is cute, playful and musical as well as a little square inspired by Osvaldo and Coca.
Famous tango (song) characters
Gauchos, compadres and compadritos... they are the heart of Argentine culture and are very often depicted in tango songs. But... who are they?
