Fishnets & Fedoras

Tanguero

Tanguero
Originally uploaded by **Belly**.

Watching the Milonga

Milonga
Originally uploaded by ozio-bao.

Lovely, lovely pic. I love the visual relationship between the dancers and the watcher. There's some more great pics if you visit the page on Flickr.

Silly: Tango With A Seal

Tina Tangos to Tina's World

Tina, late of Tina Tangos, now has her own domain and a new-look blog at Tina's World.

And that's not the only change in her life. She's making some big decisions about her future in Buenos Aires, too…

Tango Blogs: Kids, Passion, BsAs and Getting Ready to Tango

All the kids are dancing tango, apparently. I feel so much more trendy now…

I'm lovin' TangoCherie's updates on the Buenos Aires tango scene. I may never get down there, but she's letting me live the life vicariously.

Debbie of an Ever Fixed Mark bullseyes the scary passion of some online tango communities:

 

This is why I left a tango list. It got to the point where I was not reading any posts anymore because I did not want to deal with all the assertions of right and wrong about an art form that in its essence is improvisational, and therefor fluid. I know people who are anti-nuevo, anti-traditional, anti-alternative, anti-Piazzola, anti-occasional dancer, and so forth and so on. And they are all right and they are all wrong. It's all opinion and preference. And yet the force with which they assert their beliefs sometimes takes me aback.

TangoBaby gives us an insight into her preparation regimen before going out to tango.

And lastly, have you seen the new tango product?

The Tango Video Explosion

Is it just me, or is the number of tango videos posted to YouTube growing exponentially?

Frightening…

Horacio Godoy & Cecilia Garcia at the Brussells Tango Festival

x1 Tango Feet

x1 Tango Feet
Originally uploaded by svensvensen2007.

This is part of a lovely set of experimental photos that you can enjoy at Flickr.

Tango dancers on the bridge

Tango dancers on the bridge
Originally uploaded by kokkofish.

Tango.info

Have I linked this before? I can't remember.

Anyway, tango.info is a great resource for finding tango-related material across the web.

Treat Parkinson's Disease With Tango

An unusually serious one, this. Research shows that tango can actually be good for people suffering from Parkinson's Disease, a degenerative disease of the nervous system.

Researchers Gammon M. Earhart, Ph.D., assistant professor of physical therapy, and Madeleine E. Hackney, a predoctoral trainee in movement science, compared the effects of Argentine tango dance classes to exercise classes on functional mobility in 19 patients with Parkinson's disease. The participants in the dance program showed significant improvement in several standard tests for patients with Parkinson's disease

Tango is often viewed as one of the more challenging dances to become good at, rather than merely proficient. I can't help wondering if it's that quality of concentration and co-ordination that helps in this situation.

The researchers said that while dance in general may be beneficial for patients with Parkinson's disease, tango uses several aspects of movement that my be especially relevant for these patients including dynamic balance, turning, initiation of movement, moving at a variety of speeds and walking backward.

A Guy Starting Out in Buenos Aires

So many of the bloggers in Buenos Aires are women, so I'm really enjoying ...where my tango journey begins, because it tells things from the perspective of am inexperienced guy. I enjoyed today's post in particular:

It is harder for a guy who is a relatively new face in a milonga to get good dances. Experience dancers don't look at you unless they have seen you dancing on the floor. The ones who easily accept your cabaceo are normally foreigners or not-so-good dancers.

Right now I don't mind not getting dances any more. I would rather have one or two great tanda a night then dancing 10 tandas. It is about the quality not the quantity. Like in everywhere else, I am building my dancer card one at a time.

l'abusato "ti amo"

l'abusato "ti amo"
Originally uploaded by vaferina.

Wanted: Tango Dancers in Brussels

Nosotros (2002)
Originally uploaded by PeterForret.

A movie director is looking for tango dangers to appear in one scene of a movie to be shot in Brussels. Tango in Belgium has the details.

The Pencil Tango

tango
Originally uploaded by bharathbds.

A beautiful pencil rendering based on a photo.