Fishnets & Fedoras

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

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Originally uploaded by bharathbds.

A beautiful pencil rendering based on a photo.

Tango Tres - Medialuna Tango Project

This I can say I unreservedly like. The Medialuna Tango Project has put one of their pieces of music - Tango Tres - to a video of pure, simple social tango. It makes a nice change to see this sort of stuff strongly decoupled from show tango.

I will confess to finding it a little dull initially (oh, me of little attention span), but once I sunk into the rhythm of the music and the video, it was just great.

You can snag Tango Tres on iTunes

Amablemente: the Movie

Intriguing wee video. It claims to be an adaptation of the tango Amablemente, but does it really make it? Perhaps. The mood is certainly sinister and charged - but tango? Hmmm.

The Polar Opposite of Close Embrace

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Originally uploaded by goa00000.

Point. Being. Missed.

Still, lovely red... :)

i tanghèri

i tanghèri
Originally uploaded by lafides.

Sweet. And intriguing. Why the half-repaired attic room?

There's a story here somewhere....

Back from my (enforced) break

i haven't posted this year.

How shameful.

In my defence, family illnesses and the day job have kept me very, very busy.

Time to address my neglect though. Time to get going again...