“There will never be a step, sequence, or trick in tango that will come close to matching the power of the embrace.”
-Ney Melo

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The other night I stayed home and watched The Motorcycle Diaries, in Spanish with Italian subtitles.  To my delight, I was able to follow the subtitles easily and understood everything (yay for my Italian!).  To delight me even more, I realized that I understood most of the Spanish too.  It’s very close to Italian.  Of […]

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It was spring or summer of 2003, back in my intermediate days of Tango. Every Tuesday there was a milonga at Mr. Lucky in Seattle. It was a kitchy place with a bad wine selection but was a perfect space for tango, nonetheless. Somehow Evan always manages to get the lighting just right at his […]

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…you want to practice ochos, embellishments, etc. on your own but EVERYONE is home and staring at you.
And you’re too tired to go to tonight’s milonga.
It’s a catch 22 situation.
UPDATE: A couple of them have gone out to dinner, so I practiced in the hall/livingroom.  I used Valentina’s webcam to record myself and I must […]

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This is a poll that I got while reading tangospeak … The poll is by Johanna Siegmann, author of “Tao of Tango”.
I thought I’d post her poll and my responses on here. If you dance tango and want to do this too, just answer the below questions (in English) (please don’t use my […]

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Last night at the milonga in Via della Viola here in Perugia, I was chatting away with Lucia, an adorable woman with a beautiful dance style who has gone to Buenos Aires a couple of times with her boyfriend (also a good dancer) by now.  We were chatting about different styles of tango and what […]

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I have begun my independent studying of the beautiful language of Spanish.  It’s rather fun, and very similar to Italian, but I find myself getting caught by false friends… for example: The verb “andare” in Italian, simply means “to go.”  In my Spanish dictionary I see that the word “andar” in Spanish, means “to walk.”  […]

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Funny what happens when you listen to your heart. My heart took me here, to Italy where I’m currently living. And now that I’ve established myself here, my heart turned right around and decided it should take me to Buenos Aires for a while instead. That’s fine. I’ve been dancing tango […]

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