Hooray, tomorrow I have my lesson with Ney & Jennifer. Woo woo!
What do I hope to learn? I dunno… I’ll take some of their elegance though. I admire their connection, I admire Ney’s movements and the way he seems to communicate to Jennifer, and I admire Jennifer’s graceful foot placement. And […]

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Today I noticed a listing for an upcoming workshop in a non-tango studio, given by a tango dancer who I’ve never seen or heard of, about initiating movement from the pelvis.
…what?
This is not a criticism, it’s just that I’m a little confused here - maybe it’s the milonguera in me.  I’m having trouble understanding why one would want to […]

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Other bloggers have mentioned SallyCat, but I had yet to discover her on my own until now. I like it!
She moved to Buenos Aires in March, when I was still there. Her love for the city really shines through, the photographs she takes are just great, and it’s well-written, and at certain points […]

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I’m out of my grumpy phase and listening to a song a friend has shared with me… and with the first beat, the first tickling of my ears from the bandoneon, I close my eyes and feel myself in the arms of a leader with the embrace I love so much - holding me as […]

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…I could use a little more D’Arienzo in my life.   I’m just in a D’Arienzo mood.

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I was going to confess that I went to a blog that bothers me as of late, and commented… (but at least I was sort of nice?)… but instead I will not talk about that.
I will do as I said before, and direct my energy towards fabulousness.
I will focus on something that makes me smile: […]

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But is it really such a bad thing that I am worried for Tango, and that I’m upset by people misrepresenting it (in my opinion)? I know that I’ll be a lot more at peace if I just let it go and spend my energy promoting the people for whom I have tremendous respect, […]

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The post a few days ago about Premature Teaching caught quite a bit of attention, and I received a thoughtful e-mail from someone I love to dance with, wondering if it was about a specific school known for training beginner teachers.
Well, not quite. While I disagree with that school’s policy of training beginners to […]

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You know you’ve had a good tanda when you walk off the dance floor wearing a big, cheesy grin that you can’t get rid of.
Ahhhhhh…. happy, happy milonga.

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“Yo no teacher. Yo dancing!”
- exact words of an old milonguero friend of ours in Buenos Aires, when asked if he was also a teacher.

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