When a practica is held weekly, and it’s a direct train ride away, you wouldn’t imagine it would be too challenging to get there. Yet it’s taken me … a while, and tonight was actually my third attempt!
Mind you, my two previous attempts were remarkably successful as failures go …
Continue reading After two highly successful failures, I finally made it to the Tango Secrets practicaThose who’ve been following my blog from the early days will be aware that I have, on occasion, born some resemblance to a kid in a candy store when it comes to tango.
While I’d very much calmed down even before my enforced absence, my most recent private demonstrated that there are occasions on which the over-excited toddler can re-emerge …
Continue reading One hour down, six months to go: A private with Valentina Garnier & Juan AmayaI don’t do many group classes or workshops, as the vast majority of them are very sequence-based. But if you wanted to title a workshop with me as your target, you really couldn’t do any better than From Embrace to Step: Exploring Tango from the Inside Out.
Further reassurance was provided by the fact that Valentina Garnier & Juan Amaya are known for their milonguero style dance, even in the majority of their performances …
Continue reading Tango from the Inside Out, with Valentina Garnier & Juan AmayaThere have been two practicas I’ve been meaning to try forever. Having recently been given the go-ahead to resume dancing, I took the opportunity to try the first of these: Sumate (Spanish for ‘join us’).
Practicas are surprisingly rare things in tango, and Sumate was not only the genuine article, but a joyful experience …
Continue reading Sumate is one of the rarest things in London tango: a joyful and genuine practicaThe Grand Milonga of the Toronto Spring Tango Marathon demonstrated the restorative power of tango!
It was only the third time I’d danced this year, and I wasn’t sure how it was going to go given the pain I’ve been experiencing – but as it turned out, I danced almost non-stop for four hours and had an absolutely wonderful time …
Continue reading A flying visit to the Toronto Spring Tango Marathon
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