Tango Wagner House was a new encuentro in a new city – but felt delightfully familiar

Business travel back in my tech research days contributed to me notching up a total of 87 countries, so it isn’t that often I get to add a new one to the list, but Latvia made #88.

Tango Wagner House was a new encuentro in a new city in a new country, but it all felt wonderfully familiar …

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Festathons are here to further diversify festival naming, and I’m on board

Tango doesn’t like to be defined. Pick any topic you like, ask ten different dancers about it, and you’ll likely end up with eleven different views. Twelve if they are teachers.

This apparently includes naming conventions for tango festivals, making it hard for potential participants to know what they may be getting. But there’s one term that seems to be gaining favour that I think helps …

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A brief note (but definitely not a blog post) about a delicious Eastonathon

I finally decided I’d written all there is to write about my experiences at the Feast – and I think the same is true of other repeat events.

I could write a blog post about the Eastonathon, where I had a wonderful time, but in truth it would remarkably similar to the ones I’ve already written …

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My tango videos now have an additional home

I recently tidied-up my YouTube channel, as well as adding a bunch of performance videos to it. But I thought it would be useful to collate all my tango videos, formal and informal, in one place – so you’ll now find a Videos tab at the top of the page. Depending on your connection speed, it may take a minute to load.