I don’t know that tonight will be the last Tango Space class I’ll do, but it was my final planned one at least.
Tomorrow I’ll be trying the beginner/improver lesson at Tanguito with visiting teachers Juan Martin Carrara & Stefania Colina. They are covering the next four weeks while Bruno is on holiday, so if I like them as much as everyone tells me I will, then that will be my group lesson plan for the next month …
Continue reading End of a Tango Space era, and a surprisingly good milonga
Yeah, ok, the Saturday evening milonga at Browns isn’t quite like that, but it has always felt like the most intimidating of the ones I’ve been to so far. More so, interestingly, than the massive Romantica Milonguera milonga in May.
I think it’s the combination of a relatively formal setting, what appears to be a high level of dance, an atmosphere which has always felt somewhat on the serious side – and very few familiar faces (the usual suspects in the workshop didn’t stay for the milonga). A far cry from the informality of the Tuesday night milonga in a student cafe …
Continue reading Testing my confidence at a grown-up milonga, and a very obvious next step
Julia danced with me in the milonga on Tuesday, and told me afterwards that I was ready for the Tango Space intermediate class.
That was extremely encouraging to hear in terms of what it says about my technique, and as the intermediate class is a broad church, I can believe that I am somewhere in the right ballpark technique-wise. But I’m absolutely not able to cope with the step sequences: I’ve seen the kinds of things they do in that class! Even the more complex of the improver sequences took me about 45 minutes to learn, by which point there was little time left to focus on technique …
Continue reading Trying Tanguito/Los Angelitos, and not yet finding a solution to my dilemma
journey of a trainee tanguero 
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