Fishnets & Fedoras

Don't Drink and Dance

Lexa Roséan got to spend New Year's Eve at an all-night tango event. The moment of New Year itself sparked some thoughts about drinking and dancing:

After the ball dropped, everyone formed a group circle and sang Auld Lang Syne (except nobody knew the words). I was very busy looking for some friends to share my bottle of champagne with. I wanted to toast the New Year, but the thing is, you don't want to drink TOO MUCH when you dance tango because it interferes with your balance. I know that serious drinkers don't like to mix eating with their drinking. I guess I'm a bit of a danceaholic. No eating for me either. I like to get that out of the way beforehand as it interferes with the dance.

Salsa Show Does Tango

A beautiful piece of stage tango choreography here…from a salsa congress?

How To Be A Great Follower

Royce shares her thoughts on the qualities of an ideal follower:

- She completely surrenders herself to the dance and the music, she lets her mind and spirit go so that nothing will bother her when she dances.

You can read the rest at her blog.

The Dance Floor Vortex

The Weblog of Quests witnesses the startling appearance of a dance vortex:

As I was having my meal, it was quite a sight to observe the formation of a whirlpool as it were in the centre of the dance floor, sucking all comers into its depths. It was naturally quite hazardous to “passers by”.

Admittedly, I was also guilty on one or two occasions :oops: , but I eventually came to my senses and, sometimes with a little difficulty, managed to escape from the vortex. However, it was rather painful to witness the sucking power of the vortex rearing its head against many of the non-regular dancers, who are not really what I’d class as beginners, strutting their stuff, often against the flow of traffic.

Read the whole post here.

One Night in BA

El Grande Sanchez has a good time in Buenos Aries:

Buenos Aires on the other hand has completely exceeded our expectations. This place is kick arse! Spent the first 4 nights in that serviced apartment that I was telling you all about but then because we decided to stay here longer we moved out to the burbs, well hardly, to a place known to the locals as Palermo Soho! It´s full of fashion, restaurants, shops, cool stuff & cool people. It´s really leafy compared to the microcenter and is surrounded by parks and trees, unusual for a city this size (9 million) with the lack of cash flow that the country suffers from.

Tango on Friday night was really an awesome experience with live music, singing (not that either of us had a clue what was going on) and of course TANGO.