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Tango Story: Tango Argentino on Por Mí, Que Llueva

Tango Argentino on Por Mí, Que Llueva

Jelena Somogyi dancing and reading the song. Hope that you will 🤗 💗 INSTITUT ARGENTINSKOG TANGA LIBERTANGO You…
by Jelena 23/10/20

Tango Story: Online Dancing in the Covid Era

Online Dancing in the Covid Era

Covid has been described as a war with an invisible enemy..! So how can Art help us defend ourselves better fr…
by Chrisa 23/10/20

Tango Story: Thank you

Thank you

After an amazing six and a half years Amy’s is now closed. Thank you, deeply, to everyone who has supported th…
by Amy 22/10/20

Tango Story: Genie Tango

Genie Tango

Given the dearth of Tango in the present emergency, I find myself at a loss when it comes to posting stories t…
by Adam 20/10/20

Tango Story: Artwork now available on canvas

Artwork now available on canvas

As an experiment, I’m making some of my artwork available on canvas, starting with 12′ x 12′ and adding larger…
by Pez 13/10/20

Tango Story: Movement can change your brain, too!

Movement can change your brain, too!

For years and years we have a debate between body and brain. With different groups having strong opinions over…
by Chrisa 04/10/20

Tango Story: Statistical Tango

Statistical Tango

Reassured by statistics indicating that the odds of contracting Covid-19 were about the same as winning $100 i…
by Adam 20/09/20

Tango Story: The ocean of movement practices and Tango

The ocean of movement practices and Tango

I see movement as an ocean where we can’t see the end in length, in width or in depth. We choose one or more m…
by Chrisa 19/09/20

Tango Story: The Odds Of Surviving The Milonga

The Odds Of Surviving The Milonga

Am I a bad person if I do a little fist-pump when I hear that infections are going up in age groups with mild…
by Martin 22/09/20

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Practicing alone-together!

So when I starting practicing alone aka without a partner it was because I could feel that something was missi…
by Chrisa 09/09/20

Tango Story: Death Of A Milonga

Death Of A Milonga

I read somewhere that nineteenth century Buenos Aires went through regular Yellow Fever outbreaks, wiping out…
by Martin 18/09/20

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After many months of online chatting I got together friend and also a Tango teacher. We were wondering if we, as a collective of people, will be going back to Tango. And we were sharing experiences from our communities, as she is in a different city, noticing many common reactions from the two commu

Are we going back to Tango?

After many months of online chatting I got together friend and also a Tango teacher. We were wondering if we,…
by Chrisa 30/08/20

Tango Story: An Embrace I Miss

An Embrace I Miss

Looking back and recalling a litany of milongas, I realize that too often I took for granted, as a sine qua no…
by Adam 01/09/20

Tango Story: Hasta La Vista Tango

Hasta La Vista Tango

How cruel is this pandemic? My Tango go-to is now argentinetangoradio.com on my iPhone. Good, but a poor subst…
by Adam 18/08/20

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I know everyone is on the web and there is this great big online community being built almost out of nowhere… However, do we move as much as before? Do we take walks in the parks and dance in our living rooms? Have we realized how much we have missed and have we found a way to keep going in a health

Keep Going, Keep Dancing, Keep Active… Prepare!

I know everyone is on the web and there is this great big online community being built almost out of nowhere……
by Chrisa 10/08/20

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This is the video from the latest Live Tango practice that we run every week. This week things didn’t go quite as planned… In retrospect nothing terrible happened but I did lose my balance a couple of times and got into show-must-go-on mode! (haha) Show must go on–when is it useful? One would think,

Show must go on Or taking a moment to figure things out...

This is the video from the latest Live Tango practice that we run every week. This week things didn’t go quite…
by Chrisa 31/07/20

Tango Story: Swirling Skirt Tango

Swirling Skirt Tango

I had resigned myself to abstinence from Tango for the duration of the pandemic when, sifting late one night t…
by Adam 17/08/20

Tango Story: Heart, Lung and Blood Tango II

Heart, Lung and Blood Tango II

Hours must have passed because my dreams fragmented and became more vivid, and were finally hijacked and corra…
by Adam 25/07/20

Tango Story: The embrace – a place to yield to!

The embrace – a place to yield to!

In this week’s Live tango practice, we worked on the suspension created in the embrace. It was an attempt to c…
by Chrisa 16/07/20

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Charlotte Baines and Laurent Trincal performing an Argentine tango dance to Martin de Ruiter’s ‘La Yumba’, composed by Osvaldo Pugliese. Filmed in the Sociëteit Vereeniging in Haarlem, the Netherlands, in June 2020. Commissioned by the El Compás Foundation. Directing, Cinematography & Editing | Joshua van ’t Hoff Choreography & Performance | Charlotte Baines & Laurent Trincal Music | Martin de Ruiter Charlotte & Laurent: www.youtango.nl Martin de Ruiter: www.martinderuiter.com El Compás Foundation: www.elcompas.nl

Charlotte & Laurent – ‘La Yumba’

Charlotte Baines and Laurent Trincal performing an Argentine tango dance to Martin de Ruiter’s ‘La Yumba’, com…
by Joshua 14/07/20

Tango Story: A los Amigos goes ONLINE

A los Amigos goes ONLINE

Extreme times call for extreme measures! A los Amigos ITF is adapting to the new reality & placing safety…
by Sofia 11/07/20

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