Holly,
It's highly unlikely that anyone would ask you to dance unless they'd already
seen you dancing. You say you'd already attended a few milongas in BsAs so it's
likely that the men had seen you there. Many men attend many different
milongas.
Also, if you were alone at those previous milong
Victor Bennetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> The tango embrace is intimate so a follower can tell a lot
> about a leader, [...]
> One of the things they can tell is if the leader is actually
> listening to and enjoying the music. To me that is musicality.
> I don't think lessons help all that
My favorite film is "Tango Bar" with Raul Julia. It's only available on VHS (at
least in the US). The music and dancing are great and I never tire of
watching it.
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The book 'a passion for tango' goes into the whole deal, a bit of a brain dump
from the author who also teaches. Like I said, I don't agree with everything in
it, but it is far from worthless and many of the ideas are sound based on what
I know of tango. There may just be a gap between ability
> Incidentally, I also wanted to ask what are people's favourite tango movies
> and documentaries.
These are the tango films that I like a lot:
Sur, Argentina 1988. Director: Fernando Solanas, Music: Astor Piazolla, Roberto
Goyeneche
The plot: In 1983, at the end of military dictatorship in A
I agree with this explanation. Probably you were invited by men that won't ever
be accepted by the "Milongueras" of the place.
Other possibility, if this happened to you around midnight is that those men
were students coming from the previous class, which ends up about 11pm, if they
are ne
Hi Holly,
What you experienced is very common: local men think that foreign women don't
know the codigos (and many don't), and so approach their tables to ask them
to dance. Often these men can't get local women to dance with them. Or they
just hope to profit from a newby's first time at a Buen
Hi everybody, this is my first post, though I've been reading the list for
several months. I've really enjoyed the wealth of information and experience
here...as well as all the drama surrounding it!
I'm a relative newbie (dancing for about 1 ½ years) and recently returned
from my first tr
Hi Victor,
I'm curious as to whether the book you recommend talks
about the structure of the steps as opposed to tango
technique. Most books or websites deal with the former and
not the latter. I think this difference is where many of
us have issues.
When I think of tango technique, I think of
My favorites tango books in spanish come as a two volume set...
/Inventario del Tango/ by Horacio Ferrer and Oscar Del Priore, covering
the period from 1849 thru 1998.
Ferrer & Del Priore are maestro's in their own right and these volumes I
find invaluable, especially if you are interested in th
As per some requests, here is a list of a few books in Spanish about tango
that I bought in Buenos Aires and others that I got here along with my own
personal comments. I don't know where to find these now, other than checking on
the
internet or in Hispanic bookstores.
I don't have Spanish fig
Hi everybody,
I´d like to recommend Gustavo Benzecry Saba´s "La Pista del Abrazo".
It is also available in German ("Auf der Spur der Umarmung"), French
(Sur la piste de l'etreinte") and English ("Embracing Tango").
It is available from http://www.abrazosbooks.com
The book is concerned with more o
Yes, Charles, I would like very much to know about your expanded list of
tango titles in Spanish.
I enjoyed your earlier post that recommended the Canaro memoir, etc. I would
love to have a list of a whole range of such books to pore through.
I looked for the Canaro memoir. Supposedly you can get
Hi Gregory and others,
I know about four free tango radio stations.
1. Radio Batanga - Tango - North Carolina - USA
2. LA 2x4 - Buenos Aires
3. AM 1110 - Buenos Aires
4. Radio Tango Argentina - USA
Below are the details. “Station” mentions the URL of the website on
which you can find this stati
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