My Tango Diaries

The digital quality of this video is a bit poor, which is a pity. The dancers interpret the music beautifully in places and music feels remarkably appropriate to tango. I may have to look into this band some more, as I really like the writing and the vocalist. The spaces in between Two minds and all the places they have been The spaces in between Description from YouTube, "This beautiful song by Stateless inspired us to make a tango music video. Danced by Moti and Gabrielle For tango information see www.organictango.com." Wake up look me in the eyes again I need to feel your hand upon my face Words can relay nice They can cut you open And the silence surrounds you and hunts you I think I might’ve inhaled you I could feel you behind my eyes You gotten into my bloodstream I could feel you floating in me Words can relay nice They can cut you open And the silence surrounds you and hunts you I think I might’ve inhaled you I could feel you behind my eyes You gotten into my bloodst...

Some poetry moves me today. Read about poet Emilio Prados here on Wikipedia A portion (translated by Donald Wellman) of Emilio Prados' " Final Shadow " - The rest of the poem may be found here . Night awakens like a great wall of stone and time is pushing it unable to demolish it ... My body does not rest from waiting, face to face with night, faithful tree of truth. My eyes are now morning stars.

One of my very favorite guitarists playing one of my favorite pieces of music. Can't think of a better way to start what will be a very long day.

Music by: Juan Carlos Cobian Lyrics by: Enrique Cadicamo (1942) Translated by: Alberto Paz Strange, as if lit up, I found you drinking, pretty and ill fated; You were drinking, and in the din of the champagne crazily you laughed, so as not to cry... Pity I felt at finding you because looking at you I saw your eyes shine with an electric fire, your beautiful eyes that I adored so much. Tonight, my friend, with alcohol we're getting drunk; I don't care if they laugh and call us "tipsy." Everyone has their sorrows and we have ours. Tonight we will drink because we won't ever see each other again... Today you will enter my past, in the past of my life. Three things bears my wounded soul: Love, Regret, Pain. Today you'll enter my past, today we'll follow new paths. How great our love has been and, yet, aye, look what's left!

Lyrics by Carlos Gardel, Alfredo Le Pera and Horacio Pettorossi Music by Carlos Gardel, Alfredo Le Pera and Horacio Pettorossi English translation on 7/3/03 by Mike Strand Lyrics Silencio en la noche, ya todo esta en calma, el musculo duerme, la ambición descansa. Meciendo una cuna, una madre canta, un canto querido que llega hasta el alma porque en esa cuna esta su esperanza Eran cinco hermanos, ella era una santa, eran cinco besos que cada mañana, rozaban muy tiernos las sedas de plata de esa viejecita de canas muy blancas. Eran cinco hijos que al taller marchaban. Silencio en la noche, ya todo esta en calma, el musculo duerme, la ambición trabaja. Un clarin se oye...peligra la patria y al grito de: Guerra! los hombres se matan... cubriendo de sangre los campos de Francia. Hoy todo ha pasado, florecen las plantas, un himno a la vida los arados cantan. Y la viejecita de canas muy blancas, se quedo muy sola... con cinco medallas que por cinco heroes, la premio la patria. Silencio en la...

Emmeline Chang's The Tango Junkies - under "Non-fiction" Great reading for first thing in the morning as I pack my dance shoes in work bag.

Another video posted by PlanetTango.com - so you'll have to go visit it as they disable embedding on their videos (but trust me, it's worth it.) In this rare video clip that aired on Solo Tango in the 90's, Adriana Varela sings Enrique Cadicamo's VILLA URQUIZA , and Gerardo Portalea dances with Betty Pizarro. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31eO3mbz4Ik

Recently, I found someone else who does Push Hands and dances tango and was reassured that the similarities I felt were not just in my imagination. Since then I've been trying to focus on what it is specifically that brings such a strong recollection of PH hands to tango for me. During push hands and tango when you're in that moment (I only catch glimpses of it right now. Hopefully soon it will be more than a second or two) there's a sensation of almost floating, flying, yet still supported, held. Connected and yet dispersed. The moved and the movement. Like light, a wave and a particle at the same time.

I've probably had other tango dreams lately, but this is the only one I remember. Strange how this one too is just a conversation. Him : When are you going? Me : Going where? Him : Buenos Aires. Me : What do you mean when am I going? I haven't even thought about that yet. Him : (looking at me sternly) You should claim it. Me : Claim it? What, like licking something and calling dibs? Him : (very faintly bemused) Claim the future.

Posted by PlanetTango, here is a link to a clip from GottaTango that demonstrates a bit of what was taught in Tuesday's class - with many more variations. The video quality isn't great but the audio instruction compensates a bit. For those who prefer a "count" and a slightly better video quality, below is a lesson from TangoCity on ochos. This demonstrates pivots very well, but it doesn't emphasize the weight shift, and importance of changes to the embrace that signal the invitation to the ocho. Still, between the two videos, the information presented will hopefully be helpful in practicing.

A long day today, filled with lots of unpleasant tasks. Tonight I'll dance all that off in my class, if I can just make it that long. Today's Music is also today's example of beautiful tango dancing. Ester Duarte & Chiche Núñez dance "Tanguera" with a Choreography based on the Urquiza style, continuing the tradition of Luis "Milonguita" Lemos and José "El Turco" Brahemcha. An elegant style of Tango Argentino. Shot in May 2007 in Berlin's beautiful Salón Urquiza.

Simply, serenely, perfectly, beautiful animated film about two famous tango dancers reliving their glory days in each other's arms. See the homepage here: http://www.entusbrazos.fr/

Like anyone with a pain condition, I have a pretty sincere fear of injury. I can't help it. I just find myself being extra careful, eventually avoiding activities that might lead to getting hurt. Pain itself is less debilitating sometimes than the fear of pain. I'm dancing again, but I still have the fear of injury. The difference is now I'm afraid that I'll miss a dance class or won't be able to dance if I get hurt. Of course dancing makes everything feel better - while I'm doing it anyway. Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. ~Samuel Beckett

Sometimes I'm just in a mood . I want to hear something bold and nervy. So today I bring you Se dice de mí . Music: Francisco Canaro - Lyric: Ivo Pelay; Sung by Tita Merello. Lyrics: Se dice de mí, se dice de mí. Se dice que soy fiera, que camino a lo malevo, que soy chueca y que me muevocon un aire compadrón, que parezco Leguisamo, mi nariz es puntiaguda, la figura no me ayuday mi boca es un buzón. Si chlarlo con Luis, con Pedro o con Juan, hablando de mí os hombres están. Critican si ya, la linea perdí, se fijan si voy, si vengo o si fi. Se dicen muchas cosas, mas si el bulto no interesa, porque pierden la cabezaocupándose de mí. Yo se que muchos me desprecian compañíay suspiran y se mueren cuando piensan en mi amor. Y más de uno se derrite si suspiroy se quedan si los miro resoplando como un Ford. Si fea soy, pongámosle, que de eso aun no me entere, en el amor, yo solo se, que a mas de un gil, deje de a pie. Podrá decir, podrán hablar, y murmurar, y rebuznar, mas la fealdad que...

I love this piece anyway - but I adore the video. It makes it seem as though tango could break out anywhere at any time - in the street, at the bus stop, in an office building - anywhere. Fantastic! As far as the music itself - aside from being highly addictive, I also like the cricket accompaniment throughout. (A note to Kathryn - I've downloaded the Pimsleur Spanish (Latin American): The complete course I from Netlibrary.com. Thanks for the heads-up on that resource. Soon, I hope to be able to understand more than every 3rd word of the tangos I'm dancing to. )

I was going to hold off posting this one until tomorrow, but it's more fitting for tonight I think. I always think of dancing as the way I express the things I can't write and can't talk about. Dancing doesn't always help me find my voice again but it brings a reprieve. The music outside helps bring the relief of silence inside. It doesn't makes sense but that's how it is. Fabian Salas & Cecilia Gonzalez (Astor Piazzolla - Solitude, Suite Lumiere ) Solitude, Singing Being alone is knowing That in in this solitary splendour Solitude, stark and staring, Solitude, singing a lullaby Solitude, singing a dirge Surrounded by so many sundry things; Things seen and unseen Factors known and unknown Solitude singing softly, chanting without ranting Solitude’s songs that sing of solemn things Silence singing golden songs Silence healing ancient wrongs If only silence could be More than a memory More than history Silence can be more than words Empty words echoing in an ...

I tried to find specific tracks of a more desirable quality on YouTube for QuinTango, but didn't find any other than this one which is more of a compilation, then one specific piece. Still, it's enough to add it to my Amazon wishlist! Be sure to visit QuinTango's Homepage at QuinTango.com One editorial review of QuinTango's self-titled CD follows: Tangos, tangos, tangos! Classic Argentine tangos, Piazzolla's New Tango, and the European favorite "Jalousie" presented by a quintet of sizzling strings and passionate piano. Includes an arrangement of the tango from Scent of a Woman, "Por Una Cabeza." Perfect for listening or dancing. Linder notes in English and Spanish. Warning: listening to tango can be addictive! (emphasis mine.) That last sentence is exactly true, I wake up to tango in my head every morning now.

From YouTube (of course): The music is from the movie Waking Life, and it is composed and performed by Glover Gill and the Tosca Tango Orchestra.

Dear readers, this post is about smoking. If you find the entire idea of smoking distasteful and revolting, please feel free to skip this segment (and corresponding first video) entirely. I haven't smoked in over a dozen years and I almost never miss it. Almost. Truthfully, I don't miss the reality of smoking - the smell, the taste - and certainly the dulling of those senses that the smoking caused. I miss it mostly when I'm trying simply to pass the time. To think about something else. To fill my mind with something other than what (or who) I'm waiting for. Like Inigo Montoya , I hate waiting . . . Smoking, while conveniently easing stress, gave me something to do with my hands, other than fidget, and my mouth, other than bitch. Now, I don't smoke. I carry a pen in my hand almost constantly (even when I have no paper upon which to write a single word) and I pace. Pacing is most gratifying in very high heels or, even better, very high heeled boots. (While twirling a...

I like to pick one classic piece and one newer piece every day, so here is a gorgeous/exquisite/beautiful piece from Glover Gill and Tosca Tango Orchestra. I love listening to this but the thought of actually dancing to it scares me to pieces. I encourage you to visit Glover Gill's web page here . Part 2 of Ballade 4 is below

It took me awhile to figure out just the right music for today. I had wanted to find some sad tango to reflect the bad night I had last night. Good music for feeling sorry for myself. But while I was sorting through the dozens of fantastic songs on todotango.com and planet-tango.com I came across one that expressed something I liked much more. Music and lyrics by Hector Gutierrez Friends who I Love In our life there are a thousand things that they're great, they're sublime and beautiful, things that brighten and cheer our soul encouraging our heart. But there is something subtle and supreme that it reaches us with serenity and calm it is manliness and loyalty, it's feelings and kindness, it is sublime... it's called friendship. Friends who I love listen to this tango, that has between its notes a hearty handshake. It was written from the soul thinking about friendship I sing it with tears for those who no longer are here. Let us raise our glasses here in the old bar t...

Read about the fantastic Nelly Omar on TodoTango's Biography page. Lyrics: ¡Adiós pampa mía!...Me voy... Me voy a tierras extrañasadiós, caminos que he recorrido, ríos, montes y cañadas, tapera donde he nacido. Si no volvemos a vernos,tierra querida, quiero que sepasque al irme dejo la vida.¡Adiós!... Al dejarte, pampa mía, ojos y alma se me llenancon el verde de tus pastosy el temblor de las estrellas...Con el canto de tus vientosy el sollozar de vihuelasque me alegraron a veces, y otras me hicieron llorar. ¡Adiós pampa mía!... Me voy camino de la esperanza.Adiós, llanuras que he galopado,sendas, lomas y quebradas, lugares donde he soñado.Yo he de volver a tu suelo, cuando presientaque mi alma escapacomo paloma hasta el cielo...¡Adiós!...¡Me voy, pampa mía!...¡Adiós!... English: Goodbye, my pampa !... I'm leaving... I'm leaving for strange lands Goodbye, roads that I have travelled, rivers, hills and ravines, the shack where I was born. If we don't see each other agai...

This was one of the things my class was working on last Tuesday (and I'm still working on in the stairwell ;-) ) This longer variation works in tighter dance spaces when you need to keep dancing, but not necessarily move forward.

I'm so brave when I'm at work telling everyone how fantastic dancing tango is. Then right before I walk into class, I feel this: About 0:29 seconds

Thinking of my friend who I've got thinking of tango now. (Sorry, Mike sweetie - in my head DJ gets to wear the suit. ;-) ) (With thanks to Me Likey Tango for posting this outstanding video on his blog.)

By way of Dave, some Coltrane quartet steaming up the stage (literally) in Belgium (outdoors!) Watch for around 4:30 when you can actually see the columns of steam coming off of their heads. Jazz is truly hot! John Coltrane , McCoy Tyner Jimmy Garrison , Elvin Jones Belgium,1965

No lloré cuando hablamos de él. No lloré cuando vi cuadros de él. Pero cuando Melissa dicho, " ¿usted ahora baila el tango? Franco sería tan contento." Escuché el 'Poema'* y lloré y lloré. The tango mentioned above is "Poema" 1935 - tango by Mario Melif (music) and Eduardo Bianco (lyrics).

Music: Juan D'Arienzo Lyrics: Francisco Gorrindo ("Froilán") Rec. by Juan D'Arienzo with Enrique Carbel Tr. by Jake Spatz Anoche de nuevo te vieron mis ojos,anoche de nuevo te tuve a mi lao.Pa'que te habré visto, si después de todofuimos dos extraños mirando el pasao...Ni vos sos la misma, ni yo soy el mismo,los años, la vida, quién sabe lo qué...De una vez por todas mejor la franqueza:yo y vos no podemos volver al ayer! Last night I really laid my eyes on you again, last night again I had you right here at my side. What did I see you for if we're only, in the end, a pair of strangers looking back on other times? You're not the girl you were, I'm not the same young man: the years, the lives, who knows what anyone can say... Once and for all it's better to put the matter frankly: you and I can never go back to yesterday. Paciencia... la vida es así.Quisimos juntarnos por puro egoísmoy el mismo egoísmo nos muestra distintos,para qué fingir...Pacienc...

Hard day at work yesterday. I really, really needed to settle into my bus seat, put on my headphones and listen to tango music. It was that kind of day. I needed Poema. Instead I got to (as the whole bus got to) listen to the most incredibly rude man shout into his cell phone for over 30 minutes. I don't care about the work you're involved in with the AG office. And I'm sure Doug wouldn't appreciate you sharing his lab test results and insurance issues with a dozen strangers on a bus. You're not important because you can raise your voice and make a bus load of people think about pitching you and your cell phone out the exit. You're just an ass. And I really needed to hear my music yesterday. Anyway, here is the music I was trying to listen to yesterday with my MP3 player on the loudest volume it could go. The recording isn't so great below, but the tango, of course, is so beautiful.

With regards to elasticity: And this video, also from TangoStudent on Youtube, more closely demonstrates what we worked on in last night's class - though we used the "training" or "learning" embrace.

As I was in class last night, I couldn't help thinking of the martial art style "Push Hands" as we (the students) were learning about giving and receiving energy, force, resistance etc. DJ and I have had some small experience with Push Hands, or Pushing Hands, and the feeling of the tango embrace reminded me so strongly of this, I had to look it up again. From Wikipedia: " Push hands allows students to learn how to respond to external stimuli using technique from their forms practice. Among other things, training with a partner allows a student to develop ting jing (listening power), the sensitivity to feel the direction and strength of a partner's intention." Sound familiar? Obviously, the bit about actually fighting should probably remain off the dance floor. But the idea is still very interesting. Here is a beautiful demonstration of the style:

Lyrics to the vocal version: (Edmundo Rivero sings a beautiful version here - though the video quality is not great: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9tcMoylkac .) San Juan y Boedo antigua y todo el cielo,Pompeya y, mas alla, la inundacion, tu melena de novia en el recuerdo, y tu nombre flotando en el adios... La esquina del herrero barro y pampa, tu casa, tu vereda y el zanjon y un perfume de yuyos y de alfalfa que me llena de nuevo el corazon.Sur... paredon y despues... Sur... una luz de almacen... Ya nunca me veras como me vieras,recostado en la vidrieray esperandote, ya nunca alumbrare con las estrellasnuestra marcha sin querellaspor las noches de Pompeya. Las calles y las lunas suburbanasy mi amor en tu ventanatodo ha muerto, ya lo se.San Juan y Boedo antigua, cielo perdido,Pompeya y, al llegar al terraplen, tus veinte años temblando de cariñobajo el beso que entonces te robe. Nostalgia de las cosas que han pasado, arena que la vida se llevo, pesadumbte del barrio que ha cambiadoy...

I made it through my first lesson in Argentine tango. As to be expected, my little experience in Ballroom tango hindered in some ways and helped in others. In ballroom tango, it's easier to "cheat" in a sense, and not feel so completely for the lead. You have already learned the steps you are dancing and you know how to start most sequences. In Argentine tango, the embrace is the language for everything else. You can start anywhere go anywhere in the procession of steps. So feeling the lead (obviously this is from a follower's perspective) is everything. The emphasis on this shows in the different way the classes are taught. Ballroom tango class began with the opening sequence of steps. Argentine tango class began with the embrace and connection. The transition was a difficult one for me. Finally, I had to simply close my eyes and not look at anything. That changed everything. After the class, fast tango music seemed like too much to listen to. So I put Gotan Project...

Lyrics: Me acuerdo, fue en Balvanera, en una noche lejana, que alguien dejó caer el nombre de un tal Jacinto Chiclana. Algo se dijo también de una esquina y un cuchillo. Los años no dejan ver el entrevero y el brillo. ¡Quién sabe por qué razón me anda buscando ese nombre! Me gustaría saber cómo habrá sido aquel hombre. Alto lo veo y cabal, con el alma comedida; capaz de no alzar la voz y de jugarse la vida. (Recitado) Nadie con paso más firme habrá pisado la tierra. Nadie habrá habido como él en el amor y en la guerra. Sobre la huerta y el patio las torres de Balvanera y aquella muerte casual en una esquina cualquiera. No veo los rasgos. Veo, Bajo el farol amarillo, El choque de hombres o sombras Y esa víbora, el cuchillo. Acaso en aquel momento En que le entraba la herida, Pensó que a un varón le cuadra No demorar la partida. Sólo Dios puede saber la laya fiel de aquel hombre. Señores, yo estoy cantando lo que se cifra en el nombre. Entre las cosas hay una De la que no se arrepiente N...

I was sent this very informative article by a friend. It discusses the expectations and guidelines of tango in social settings, including dance flow, inviting and declining invitations and more. Class and Tango Etiquette from Tango 2 x 4.com There is also this article by Ney Melo from CloseEmbrace.com called Tango Etiquette: The Do's and Don'ts of Inviting and Accepting .

BewitchingBlackLotus has posted several step and embellishment tutorials on YouTube that are extremely helpful in expanding your tango repertoire. See Jennifer Bratt's YouTube channel here. Displayed below, Decorated Side Steps Watching these videos makes me want loads more shoes. LaMaleva Tango Tutorial: Decorated Side Steps- Embellishment LaMaleva Tango Tutorial: Front Boleo LaMaleva Tango Tutorial: High Back Boleo LaMaleva Tango Tutorial: Low Back Boleo LaMaleva Tango Tutorial: Basic Tap - Embellishment LaMaleva Tango Tutorial: Tap on Forward Step - Embellishment LaMaleva Tango Tutorial: Tap on '2' - Embellishment LaMaleva Tango Tutorial: Tap on '3' - Embellishment LaMaleva Tango Tutorial: Beat in Front - Embellishment LaMaleva Tango Tutorial: Double Beat -Tango Embellishment LaMaleva Tango Tutorial: Caricias - Embellishment LaMaleva Tango Embellishment: Ochos with Cha Cha Cha LaMaleva Tango Tutorial: Rulo Loco - Embellishment

If you need some extra practice during your lunch break, this is the way to go! Here are all the links for 12 of the original 20 lessons. 13-20 are not available on YouTube, unfortunately. Instructors are Mora Godoy and Osvaldo Zotto. Lesson 1 is displayed below: LEARN HOW TO DANCE TANGO IN YOUTUBE LESSON 1/20 LEARN HOW TO DANCE TANGO IN YOUTUBE LESSON 2/20 LEARN HOW TO DANCE TANGO IN YOUTUBE LESSON 3/20 LEARN HOW TO DANCE TANGO IN YOUTUBE LESSON 4/20 LEARN HOW TO DANCE TANGO IN YOUTUBE LESSON 5/20 LEARN HOW TO DANCE TANGO IN YOUTUBE LESSON 6/20 LEARN HOW TO DANCE TANGO IN YOUTUBE LESSON 7/20 LEARN HOW TO DANCE TANGO IN YOUTUBE LESSON 8/20 LEARN HOW TO DANCE TANGO IN YOUTUBE LESSON 9/20 LEARN HOW TO DANCE TANGO IN YOUTUBE LESSON 10/20 LEARN HOW TO DANCE TANGO IN YOUTUBE LESSON 11/20 LEARN HOW TO DANCE TANGO IN YOUTUBE LESSON 12/20

My friends have abandoned me for the dark side... Salsa classes... :-( Now I'm on my own for Tango classes - both Argentine and Ballroom. So how brave am I?

Carlos Gardel "La mariposa" (P. Maffia/E.C.Flores) Lyrics: No es que este arrepentido de haberte querido tanto, lo que me apena es tu olvido y tu traicion me sume en amargo llanto; si vieras, estoy tan triste que canto por no llorar; si para tu bien te fuiste, para tu bien yo te debo perdonar! Aquella tarde que yo te vi tu estampa me gusto, pebeta de arrabal, y sin saber por que te segui y el corazon te di y fue tan solo por mi mal. Mira si fue sincero mi querer que nunca imagine la hiel de tu traicion. Que solo y triste me quede sin amor y sin fe y derrotado el corazon. Despues de libar traidora en el rosal de mi amor te marchas engañadora para buscar el encanto de otra flor; y buscando la mas pura, la mas linda de color, la ciegas con tu hermosura para despues engañarla con tu amor. Ten cuidado, mariposa, de los sentidos amores, no te cieguen los fulgores de alguna falsa pasion, porque entonces pagaras toda tu maldad, toda tu traicion. ...

Reprinted from Goodreads.com "Because I have no answers to my questions, I tango. I tango because I have to move in the midst of these uncertainties. . . . My first steps in tango taught me about both overwhelming domination and stubborn resistance." The main criticism with the author's style is that she does seem to enjoy her prose a little too much. However, there are few treatments of Tango that are this comprensive (in English, anyway.) She does warn the reader early on that her style may be challenging: "For this reason I speak in bursts, splashes, and puddles, opening windows to what I have expected to be major controversial knots engendered by the justaposition of tango and decolonization." She's not kidding - that's a very accurate description of her style. There were many moments of, "wait, weren't we just discussing something else a paragraph ago?" It leaves the reader wondering if he or she is the intended audience, of if the au...

My thoughts of tango go back to 2002 when I dreamt of tango... well, more of a conversation about tango. That's not precisely right either. I dreamt that I was walking home from work (I worked only about a mile from my apartment) when I was joined by a man I'll just call "the Librarian." I had known the Librarian since 1999, and so it was not unusual for him to occasionally end up in one my dreams. We got about half way to the apartment when we passed a small park with tree-covered patio. This park had never been on my way home before, but it was a dream and these things happen in dreams. The Librarian and I walked over to the patio and saw that people were dancing - dancing tango specifically. The music was the saddest, most beautiful piece of music I had heard to that point in my life. (And I listen to opera, it should be noted, so my collection of sad music is substantial.) I was hearing Astor Piazzola's Milonga Del Angel which I had probably heard earlier in t...

Despite the video quality, still one of my favorite clips on YouTube.

I desperately want some red shoes, and about 100 more lessons . Here are the lyrics I forgot to post earlier: Una inquietante mirada De amor porteño Cálida y cruel No, no puedo creer que pasó Que el misterio sensuel De tu risa canyengue se apagó Brindo por esa ilusión De amor porteño Loco puñal Dulce y fatal, la nostalgia De un tiempo pedazo de nosotros dos Y yo que pensaba que no me importaba Que una caricia podía borrar el color de mi ciudad El código oculto de esa mirada Es como una señalY no puedo zafar Un deseo sutil que temblando me viene a buscar Y yo que pensaba que no me importaba Que una caricia podía borrar el color de mi ciudad El código oculto de esa mirada Es como una señal Y no puedo zafar Un deseo sutil que temblando me viene a buscar. A worrying look Of porteño's love Warm and cruel No, I don't believe what happened That the sensual mystery Of your smile fade out I make a toast for that illusion Of porteño's love Crazy dagger Sweet and fatal, the nostalgi...

Lyrics: Uno busca lleno de esperanzas el camino que los sueños prometieron a sus ansias... Sabe que la lucha es cruel y es mucha pero lucha y se desangra por la fe que lo empecina. Uno va arrastrándose entre espinas y en su afan de dar su amor... sufre y se destroza hasta entender: que uno se ha quedao sin corazón... Precio de castigo que uno entrega por un beso que no llega o un amor que lo engañó... Vacío ya de amar y de llorar tanta traición... One goes searching full of expectations down the path that had been promised in one’s dreams to one’s desires... One knows the fight’s a vicious and a tough one but one fights it through the bloodshed with a faith that never tires. Time and again one clambers into thorns and in the urge to pledge one’s love suffers and gets destroyed until one learns that one’s been left without a heart at all... One pays it out as the price of being punished for every kiss that never comes or every love that leaves one fooled... too empty then to care and sh...

From: Sergio Vandekier - on the Tango List at tango-l@mit.edu How Villa Urquiza style (Traditional Tango) differentiates itself from the other styles: (in this video). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roNnIkrkfAY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXU9nojcFQo Long Steps, Embrace in "V", use of a varying embrace (elastic embrace) close, with little light to open, profuse use of embellishments, elegant erect posture. Elegant formal dressing. Tango walk with a narrow base, the feet brush heels as they pass each other, the foot lands either toe or heel first. Walking on a line with external rotation of the foot. 1 - Milonguero - Cacho Dante - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgWMs0rAcJk Shorter steps, embrace more frontal (where the V is less evident), close embrace only, different degree of elegance, Tango walk with a wider base, the feet are right under the hips, the feet do not brush heels as they pass each other, the foot land flat on the sole, walking on two lines, no external ro...