4651  Tango + Pilates = Tangolates (1)
The new fitness option in Buenos Aires in Tangolates, which combines the music of tango and the choreography of Pilates workout. It was created by Tamara Di Tella, owner of the Pilates studios chain...

4652  The existence of dance schools in Buenos Aires (4)
during the 1940s <<Tango classes - and teachers - are merely a recent invention. As Christine Denniston wrote on the subject of learning in the Golden Age v. today: there was no such thing as...

4653  Private Lessons v Group Classes (3)
Chris, UK wrote: "one private lesson is worth is worth is more like minus five group classes hereabouts, since the value of the average group class is negative." Chis has told us previously that he's...

4654  About styles and teachers: Daniel Lapadulla! (2)
I have remarked that Daniel Lapadulla, IMHO the best interpreter and teacher of modern classical tango, has added new videos, dancing the tangos Mandria, Raza Criolla and the vals El So?ador...plus...

4655  Final Tribute? (1)
Dear friends; A long time ago, in a land far away, a searching heart discovered tango. Life completely changed. What mysteries this tango thing presented. If one didn't have a personal relationship with...

4656  tangocherie (1)
Hi List, Just to let you know that I finally succumbed to the 21st century conceit of online diaries. I now have an expat Blog (sort of an audio-visual diary) called? tangocherie: https://tangocherie.blogspot.com/

4657  Now that I?m here in BsAs (13)
I:ve realized that what I thought I knew about tango, I actually didn:t know at all. Have only been here five days but have already gone to several milongas (Gricel, Nino Bien, Salon Canning, Confiteria...

4658  Irresponsible advertisers. How to punish them (1)
Listen, Tango Times, what is your real name, by the way? Haven't you been told that you should not post ads to Tango-L? There is an effective method of restraining these wise guys: Send them their message...

4659  Smoking section at a milonga in Buenos Aires (6)
Caroline, In defence of old age one may say that those elderly dancers, who bored you to death, listen and dance THE music and the spirit of the lyrics ( for they don't have to really listen to...

4660  Run on, Caroline , with your mini blog (3)
don?t put words in my mouth that i never said. i said i was a BIT bored, not bored to death. Hi Caroline, I misspoke, my apologies. Sanguine should be the right word, for in exactly 787 words split...

4661  Killers (6)
Seeing one at work today (poor thing might not even know), it dawned that there were only 3 or 4 people who have brought Tango-L so low as it is. Well, there are those active but unhappy folks. And there...

4662  How Close is Close (3)
I remember once in a Chinese cooking class we were taught to make won tons. I experimented at home with various ingredients. When I came to class I told my teacher that I had tried making won tons...

4663  POSTALES DE BUENOS AIRES - #7-06 (1)
POSTALES DE BUENOS AIRES - #7-06 Hola Hello Hej Everybody! Greetings from Buenos Aires where- November brings April showers, Strawberries are in season, Christmas trees appear in store windows,

4664  Tango at The Hague (1)
I will be in Holland for two weeks, starting December 3rd Most of my time will be in and around The Hague, which is properly called "Den Haag" Can someone recommend a place to dance Tango while in Den...

4665  Directional notation (30)
Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone out there has found a more useful way to describe direction in tango, since "left-right" and "forward-backward" easily become confusing when two dancers are facing each... Jake OK. Do your 'standard or default form' (parallel) salida, but at #3, instead of stepping her back and you stepping forward, first...

4666  Crossed salida (1)
"(There being, to my knowledge, no cross-system salida.)" Jake says. Jake I wonder what do you mean by that, since... There are (IMO) salidas in parallel as well as in crossed walking. As you know...

4667  My prior post on changes in Direction (1)
Don't shoot me, Chicho, (not a Marx brother) it was a typo !!

4668  Direction: Step descriptors... (2)
(I'm splintering this thread so we can pursue the various topics that have arisen, most of which are worth pursuing in detail. Thanks to all for the energetic responses so far!) Brian, Regarding the...

4669  Direction: Pivots & fulcra (1)
Hi all, Thanks for the energetic replies and engagements with this topic. I'm familiar with the "FaGuChi" (as one poster once put it) analysis, and I find it very helpful. I've also got Mauricio Castro's...

4670  Direction: Purpose (1)
Hi Bill in Seattle, I don't know who the ultimate audience of this topic is, if that's somehow different from you, me, and all others who've engaged the discussion. I know I want a better way to describe...

4671  I'm thankful (1)
First and for most, I'm very thankful for my wife Joanne and her family that have taken me into their lives. Joanne is the best reason I keep going every day. I'm thankful for having good health,...

4672  Direction: Open & Crossed & Open & Closed (2)
Hi Huck, In response to your points... 1. "Open-side" etc. Yes, you are perfectly correct. And nevertheless, we've got duplicate terms. I use them sometimes myself, but my point is that I'd like something...

4673  For the Tango record keepers -Tango in Cinema (1)
Tango is played as a theme and also at the christening party at the end of: Il commissario Montalbamo (Inspector Montalbamo) "Par Condicio" "Equal...

4674  Notation/ Cross System Salida (1)
Thanks Jake for bringing up this discussion about notation, very interesting. You also asked about a cross sytem salida. I have a salida here that I think is a tricky one to notate, teach or learn....

4675  Direction: Step descriptors.No Neither step. (3)
Jake, what you are calling a "neither" step, ie a straight back step for leader in "normal" (parallel)leader steps back with right, follower steps forward with left, or leader steps back with left...