Dancing in a tile!

Posted on Jul 22, 2011 in Blog, Milonga Culture | By Buenos Aires standards, a good dancer is someone who can dance on a tiled square, a ‘baldosa’ in Spanish. Dancing in a small space creates opportunities for pauses and small movements, which I personally find very intimate and expressive. La Baldosa is also the name of a lovely milonga running every Friday in Buenos Aires (Ramon l. Falcon 2750) – try it out if you’re there!...
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Carlos Quilici at a milonga

Posted on Jul 16, 2011 in Music | A lovely night at the Light yesterday, and an inspiring bandeonist, Carlos Quilici, who played beautifully! Click below to see the video… Carlos Quilici at a milonga –...
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Today is Bastille day

Posted on Jul 14, 2011 in School News | Today is Bastille Day. Vive la France! France and Tango… a long love story. It started when Ricardo Guiraldes,a well-off Argentinian writer, visited Europe in 1910. On its way he stopped in Paris, wrote a poem, ‘Tango’, and gave a tango performance in a trendy salon. The performance was a big success and tango became more known from that day. This is why you’ll find so...
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This will brighten your day at the office…

Posted on Jul 13, 2011 in Music | Feeling like listening to tango to brighten your day while at the office? Easy! Try one of these online tango radios on tangocity. In Spanish, but quite easy to understand. A few words: escuchar = listen, buscar = search. If you don’t know which one to try first, go for the number 20 (orquesta tipica), which was our orchestra of the month in June! Tell us which one you...
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Our orchestra of the month in July is…

Posted on Jul 12, 2011 in School News | Our orchestra for the month is Canaro. To learn more about this inspiring musician, leader and composer from the Golden era, check todotango: http://www.todotango.com/engli​sh/creadores/fcanaro.asp To listen to some tunes: http://www.todotango.com/Engli​sh/Las_Obras/Grabaciones.aspx?​idc=9 Tell us what you...
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