"A pearl before the swine" was the name of a recent thread.
I must admit I have never heard of any tango songs talking about casting pearls
before the swine
(and I sure do know many songs),
but the title of the thread did not give me any clue to a possible tango
connection.
So in the begi
I have received a message by a friend informing that Roberto di Chiara passed
away on May 15th in Buenos Aires.
The cable channel where he was working (C5N) is going to air an homage to
Roberto Di Chiara in the show he was producing at the time of his death.
http://www.infobae.com/c5n/index.
Some leading ladies give proof that the world is more complex than simplistic
minds adhering to x-y-chromosom- theory might suggest ;)
Are there some ladies that lead better than some men do - YES! There are a
lucky few that can lead better than a vaste majority of men.
As a follower I do not
> As for your swearing at a lady ... well, I guess we had different upbringings.
>
Keith,
thank you very much for this reminder on respectful behaviour.
Seems as if such a reminder is needed, because the swearing
seems to have been overlooked by previous posters.
So, dear gentlemen, if you e
Dear Mr. Stradivarius
> We don't have many Strads in Buffalo...
> But the top two or three were first taught by me.
Reading your many postings on ecstasis and control
I have come to understand that among "old violins"
you have but a few so called "Strads" that your maestro teaching has help t
Dear list,
last week I had an accident. It happened in the early morning after a most
wonderful memorable night of dancing.
The next morning I almost hit a speedy car that suddenly crossed my pedestrian
way.
Now I can but hop on one leg with the help of crutches. I can't walk the stairs.
The li
Dyane,
IMO there is no need to find a regular partner, rather the contrary. I would
not use the expression "really work hard at developing very good following
skills" either, because I don't consider dancing as a follower a hard work, I'd
rather say it's more soft skills;)
I think the best teac
Ron wrote:
> Argentine tango (a redundant phrase, because tango is Argentine)
If you advocate for understanding the culture of tango in the place of
its origin keep in mind that there is also a term called "tango rioplatense"
which includes Montevideo/Uruguay ;)
For the rest I agree - the dance
Janis,
I like your lucid statement about instant gratification as way of life
and lacking patience and time to get acquaintened and intimate with the music.
In a competitive society many dancers ambitiously strive for quick success and
technical accomplishment and they might succeed in performin
> "Tale of Tales" by Yuri Norstein ("Skazka Skazok", USSR, 1979).
> Few movies express the soul of tango as well as this little gem.
Thank you for the Tales of Tales video, Oleh.
The tango was originally composed by Jerzy Petersburgski in 1933 with the title
Ta ostatnia niedziela.
(This last
Hi Tim,
helpful followers are bred in class teaching where patterns are taught and/or
where beginners dance with beginners. Helpful followers might be blessed with a
good memory, they can remember the combinations taught more quickly and lasting
than the lead. So they easily internalize pattern
Dan wrote:
> The video is not beautiful but certainly educational. Abusive?? I really
> don't see
> it. Metin has an aggressive personality and it pervades his teaching
> style. If you want a soft fuzzy type of teacher, don't attend his workshops.
[...] I would describe what I saw on the v
--- Mario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why do women put up with this..are they all masochists ??
> ...and then she smiles and laughs incredulously?? duh
>
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8jgnvrTxl4&feature=related
You can tell by her laughter that she is deeply embarassed.
"They" are not all
>I am desperate, and I don't think anyone can help, it is the job of the
>follower to stop guessing and anticipating - the correct technique is in
>place to make the movement the right way, but she's simply not using it. The
>second she "decides" to do something, she just ignores the skills I t
> Edgardo Donato + Lita Morales "Triqui-tri" http://tinyurl.com/2teqrh
> If anyone knows to buy a full-quality copy of this, please tell!
I think it's to be found on:
Las Damas del Tango 1909-1946
My question to the list:
why are las damas del tango so neglected by the DJ's in the milongas?
Wh
..." the first person to choreograph Argentine Tango for professional dancers
on the stage."
..." the fist film ever devoted to the tango was called "El tango de la muerte
(1917)".
It makes me wonder where authors derive the self-certain confidence from
for statements on the first origins. I
> "Sitting in one spot all night" thing. WHERE you sit is supremely
> important. At any venue there will be predominate traffic flows - to and
> from: the front door, the bathroom, the dancefloor, and the food, as Trini
> pointed out. Women who want to dance, do well to put themselves in or n
> So far:
> "baby on a swing" - excellent ! A follower, by Tango for Her.
> "painter and his brush" - leader and follower, by Tango For Her
> "musician and violin" - leader and follower, by Igor Polk<
In your inventory of poetic imagery you seem to have forgotten the broom:
> 3. You dance
Dear Nancy, Astrid, buffmilonguera, Trini,
thank you all for your helpful postings that seem to already have
produced effect by raising the level of sensitivity on this list.
It might have a wonderful effect on the dancing, too.
Maybe we can keep in our generous minds that
males often have this
Burak wrote:
>A milonguero by himself is nothing, he gets his
> power and charisma from his partner. However, from the marketing agents of
> so-called tango milonguero thing, Milonguera has no value, they just host
> milongas, everything is Milonguero, women have to dance with them to "feel",
> the
Janis and Trini,
I'm not sure what is meant by "franelear" and "franela".
This might be partially due to the fact that neither Spanish
nor English are my native languages.
As I understood there are milongueros in BA ready
to provide explanations or even hands-on experience on this matter.
But as
> I'd like to point your attention to little statistics [...]
> So if we assign numbers of dancers it will be something like this( very
> roughly: )
> 1000
> 1000
> 10
> 1000
>
> Please, I do not make any conclusions. Just pointing your attention.
> Otherwise someone outside might be confused.
> Perhaps rhetorical questions.
> What is average number of years you critics of musicality classes have been
> dancing tango? Number of hours you have spent listening to tango?
I doubt that numbers matter. Not the numbers of years and not the
number of classes. I guess it is all individual.
> unconscious, straight from the
> heart without thinking musicality you can dance with if
> you know the song intimately.
musicality, straight from the heart, thank you, Huck. As a follower it is
wonderful to feel the intimacy with the music AND the embrace AND to feel the
intimacy of the lead
> 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
> Does anyone know a different source of this song,
> or similar Russian waltz songs used often in milongas?
"My sweet and tender beast" is from the Soviet Film
Moj laskovyj i nezhnyj zver (Soviet Union 1978),
adaptation of a Story by Anton Chekhov
composer Evgenyj Doga
http://www.imdb.com/title
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