Fishnets & Fedoras

Hiatus

I'm taking a week off - and that includes a week off blogging.

I'll catch up with you all in a week!

Quick Tango Links - 14 May 2007

Miles has posted a video of the Cristina Ladas Benefit on Tango Bliss.

Chand Wadhwani has uploaded some photos from the recent Neo Tango Festival in Montreal to his website.

More Tango Shoes

More sexy feet
Originally uploaded by Hospy.

Because we can't get enough of them right now.

Smells Like Tango Spirit

I've started a category for Tango Orchestras on the links in the sidebar. First in there is Mandrágora Tango, who not only have a blog, but also some MP3s you can download.

I'm a huge fan of their tango cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Shoe Bliss

More Latin dance shoes. Because it's the week's theme.

La Planchadora's Riposte

La Planchadora republished that video I pointed to a couple of days ago. She got a couple of comments, one of which she takes some exception to. And so, so sets about giving it a point-by-point rebuttal (a process known as fisking elsewhere in blogging):

So, a gentleman posted in a comment to a video of two women dancing, qualifying women leaders on criteria other than "ability" and "body odor". And he had the very bad judgement to do so on my blog.

I think you'll agree with me when I say: Mistake!

Oh, yes. I agree!

Tango in Motion

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Originally uploaded by Machine Envy.

Well, the photographer claims that it's tango…

A Tourist on Defensa

I love finding people's experiences of tango as they travel the world. This traveller, calling himself qrmucho,  give a great account of tango dancing on Defensa:

On my first day in Buenos Aires I met a craftsman in the park. After a nice chat with him he told me something that I didn’t quite understand at that time. ¨Buenos Aires is as melancholic as Tango¨. I didn’t give it any more thoughts…The following day; I went for a walk around the city. There is a street called Defensa, that every Sunday becomes pedestrian so it is full of tango dancers and singers. Some of them are young and good looking; some are old people trying to get some money for their retirement. There are also some old ladies and gents, part of the public, that in between songs and shows they always try to get a dance with the good looking young street dancer. You can see melancholy also in the architecture, buildings show the footprint left by the colonial time. Big old colonial buildings and loads of antique good furniture resting in the selves of antique shops, articles from the rich times...

Such great details in there.

Third Street Tango

This picture has a certain gritty quality, which I find quite appealing. There's something about this tango that suggests the working class, "street" nature of the origins of the dance.

Dancing Tango in the Desert

This demands some sort of explanation:

Sadly, I have none. People tangoing in the desert? In somewhat skimpy clothes? I'm sure there's a story here, I just have no clue what it is.