I’ve danced at the Sheffield Tango Festival four years in succession, and as with the Feast there comes a point when I feel I’ve said it all before.
However, I couldn’t let the occasion go entirely without mention, so I’ve put together one of my taster videos intended to give a sense of the event …
Continue reading Taster video: Sheffield Tango Festival is perhaps the friendliest festival on the planetI’ve added this video to my blog post for the event, but given the length of that, I thought it made sense to create a standalone post just for the taster video.
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 …
Continue reading A brief note (but definitely not a blog post) about a delicious EastonathonI first started dancing at Tango Secrets almost three years ago now, when it was not at all easy to reach from the capital. These days, however, it’s a breeze – thanks to the Elizabeth Line.
Taplow station is just 36 minutes from Paddington, and Irina’s husband Jonathon is usually able to offer a free pickup and drop-off service. There’s even time to dance the last tanda and still make the last through-train which runs through to east London …
Continue reading Taster video: Tango Secrets is a world away from London (yet only 36 minutes)Tango taster videos are a concept that emerged from sharing short video clips of festivals and milongas on Facebook, and people who’d never been to them telling me how useful they were.
They said that while still photos can be fantastic for capturing the romance of an event, there’s no substitute for video when it comes to giving a sense of what it’s actually like to be there …
Continue reading Introducing taster videosI said last time that I’d finally been able to write a short blog post about a Feast, because I’d reached a point of having said it all before. Exhibit A: all my previous Feast posts. That’s again the case with the March edition, and this is really the highest compliment I can give to the event: they are just consistently blissful.
But there are a couple of additional reasons I’m resisting the temptation to add to the many thousands of words I’ve previously written about the beautiful dancing and wonderful warmth of the atmosphere …
Continue reading There’s no March Feast blog post, but there are collated video clips
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