Yep, really. Once you’ve booked your flight and accommodation, there are 11 further steps before you are ready to leave – most of which need to be done in the final 48 hours before you fly.
This guide is for UK passport holders travelling from the UK, and assumes you’ve had all three shots (you can’t visit Argentina if that’s not the case) …
Continue reading How to travel to Buenos Aires during COVID, in 11 easy stepsIt’s been over two months since my last tango blog, partly because I’m no longer blogging everything, but mostly because there’s been very little tango to blog about. I caught COVID shortly after the Feast (though probably not there), and since then have made it to exactly five milongas and one private.
That’s because, after a week of flu-like illness, I had about six weeks of almost zero energy – literally going to bed at 6pm or 7pm most nights …
Continue reading After the Feast, a Covid-induced famine – but it’s about to end …
There’s never been a time like this before in anyone’s living memory, and we’re all feeling our way through the darkness here.
The challenges we each face also depend on our circumstances and our personalities. In general, I’m incredibly fortunate when it comes to the circumstances part …
Continue reading Lessons without dance are too painful right now
… I’ve booked a private COVID-19 antibody test. More on my generic blog.
I wrote last time about my challenge with motivation. About the wonderful theory of lockdown being the perfect time to hone our technique, and the less wonderful practice of dancing feeling like such a distant dream it’s hard to maintain the motivation.
I had figured out one thing that helped a little with technique exercises …
Continue reading Dancing the exercises, and three levels of collaborative dance
A lot of friends seem to be having similar experiences with the lockdown at present. There’s this idyllic theory, that we could be using all the extra time we have productively. Writing plays. Learning languages. Reorganising our homes. Doing tango technique exercises.
And then there’s the reality, which is not feeling the motivation to do any of these things …
Continue reading Tango in lockdown: motivation, practice and confidence
Aside from a single tanda with Steph a month ago, it’s been seven weeks since I last danced. Worse than that, I haven’t done much solo practice either – which is unusual for me.
I realised it’s because I just haven’t felt motivated without the reward of dance. Usually, I do regular solo practice, then get to feel the difference it has made within the next two or three days. With no milongas, it felt like all work and no payoff …
Continue reading My first time dancing for seven weeks – and it showed …
I’ve never gone this long without tango since I started dancing.
In theory, I’m in a better position than most, in living with a tanguera. Steph doesn’t normally dance with me often – our levels are too far apart – but desperate times might have forced desperate measures! Except she’s been ill for three weeks with either flu or COVID-19 (the online GP was playing safe by presuming it to be the latter, but there’s no way to know without testing) …
Where there’s a will, there’s a way, right?
I had a private scheduled with Fede and Julia before the apocalypse, and we decided to try a video lesson as an experiment. This did lead to a bit of an argument between us …
Continue reading Another tango first: a remote private via video
One of the four questions I posed last time was this:
What measures can we take to ensure schools, teachers and milongas survive that long? […] I personally would be willing to continue to pay for cancelled classes and milongas, in order to ensure their survival. I’ve heard some others say the same thing. Are enough of us of the same view?
I’m delighted to say the answer is a resounding ‘yes’ …
Continue reading Supporting milonga organisers and schools during the coronavirus suspension
journey of a trainee tanguero 
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