Damn tuesday
Found an ad:"Follow in search of a partner for the September advanced class by on Tuesdays, and practise time in my own studio the other days. "Just what I needed! I know her, she's not the pupil next...
View ArticleNot good for improv
About two months ago my partner #3 scheduled a party for her birthday; it will take place next Saturday and many friends of hers, all non-dancers, are invited. Oh and yes, I'm invited too. I like...
View ArticleAmbush
Maybe I should have taken the train after all. I had thought that my partner's friends were not dancers; I was wrong. I found myself in a group of salseros, discussing steps, teachers, festivals,...
View ArticleEnd of summer... end of milongas
Soon I'll be back to my beloved classes. I think I've found something for Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, still trying to fill the other evenings.But yesterday, Summer was still on and I kept...
View ArticleHalf-time partner
Midnight was coming soon, and my partner was worried because after my leaving she wanted to keep dancing but she was fearing a shortage of leaders. So just before wandering back in the night to the...
View ArticleQuestion with a parameter.
Here is an equation with a parameter:x2 + nx + 1 = 0n is a parameter. When it changes, the answer to the question "Is it possible to solve this?" changes too.If n=0 or 1, there is no solution.If n=2...
View ArticleDamn tango moment
I saw this in the A.T. section from a dance forum:As I danced, I got tired, and basically took one of my regular partners, and just "Walked" to Vuelo al Sur. Lo and behold... It turned out to be one of...
View ArticleSearching for a class on Mondays
Searching for a class on Mondays (I found some for Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and a practise on Fridays), I ventured into a student campus where an argentine couple were giving two consecutive...
View ArticleOne more reason to like the Bs-As taxi dancers
This season, to avoid the issue of going to a class and having to leave because the partner whowas supposed to come didn't - issue being, I figured, partly my own fault for maybe selecting a...
View ArticleA theme is a theme is a theme
The teacher had decided that the private would focus on listening and musicality. So she played a few pieces, La Yumba, El Choclo, Recuerdo, while I was listening silently. Then she began to talk about...
View ArticleHop hop
I hopped from milonga to milonga yesterday, attending three on the same evening. Not because I'm suddenly liking milongas but by sense of duty.The first one was given to help a couple of old teachers...
View ArticleToo many left-foot shoes
There are things that your hands can do on their own, without any help by the brain, which allows your mind to wander around. For instance, letting your hands drive your Hummer while your brain tries...
View ArticleA counter
When I took up A.T and went to my first practicas and milongas I also began to count the number of dances I had, vaguely expecting that once some big, round number would be achieved (say, 1000 tandas)...
View ArticleMy CITA 2007 schedule
Aha, 15 classes, all nuevo-oriented. Not that I'm feeling any better and ready for nuevo this year, but the teachers themselves have had time enough now to know how to teach the elements (volcadas,...
View ArticleTango is just another word for math
Knowing that:my Monday partner is half swede and half korean, and that she attends one class out of three,my Tuesday partner is half argentine and half local, and attends every second class,my...
View ArticleThe ego
Do you know what the ego is? The ego is the little argentine who lives inside of us.
View ArticleTransparent
"Thank you", the teachers said when we paid them at the end of the class. And this was the only word they ever told us in the whole 90 minutes we spent with them. My partner felt a bit angry for not...
View ArticleWhosaidit?
An easy little quiz; Here are words that I heard during one class or another. A famous teacher is talking to (or about) his partner.the line-up: Carlos Gavito, Osvaldo Zotto, Sebastian Arce, Gustavo...
View ArticleTime for bed grandpa, and take your pills
Near the second third of the AT class my partner gently told me "Maybe it's time for a pause, Pablo. Have a seat for a few minutes. D'you want a glass of water?". The pause was only intended for me of...
View ArticlePreparing for Bs-As
Grrr my CITA group collapsed and there is no time to find another. Instead I signed for a non-CITA tour. I'm trying to fill every free slot with extra private classes of course, butnevertheless I think...
View ArticleWho cares about level.
Friday, still training for the forthcoming trip, I went to a small and crowded milonga where my tuesday partner usually goes, and we played Bs-As. The patterns weren't especially ambitious or sharp,...
View ArticleToo much show kills the show
Here I am again, duly spending my pesos in Bs-As, as part of a 32-people group. Talk about a huge group. I am the 32nd by the way, having been sollicited by an organizer worried about his odd,...
View ArticleKeeping the dance-floor free of tourists, part two
This time we invaded Los Mareados, a brand-new milonga in Junin street. Small place, and we easily outnumbered the locals. Once the demos and the traseo ended, the host used three additional tricks to...
View ArticleThe end
Well it had to end one day...One reason is a technical one: blogger.com tm forces me to "upgrade" if I want to keep posting.But the main reason is simpler: after four years I don't qualify any more as...
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