1576  Recuerdos de Buenos Aires 7/4 (1)
Today I will begin a series of daily impressions of my recent trip to Bs As, mostly from sketchy notes I kept while there. As with any reportage, these impressions are personal and subjective although...

1577  Tango in Bucharest (1)
Does anyone know of any Tango in Bucharest? -Checking this for friends, and I may be there over New Year's. I saw this question posted in the archives, but did not see any responses. Thanks. JP

1578  MS Dancer - in the news (1)
Today an article on the dance robot appeared in the Japan Times https://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20030724b4.h
tm (look right away,it disappears in three hours when Thursday is...

1579  tango subjects (2)
Re Leopoldo's post: Uh .. could we come back to tango instead of the relative merits of "truth" or whatever your point is? Charles

1580  Argentinean Sayings (1)
I believe that the Truth is that Leopoldo "esta meando fuera del tarro". Argentinean Slang can be very descriptive. If you are talking, you stray away from the main subject of discussion and you are...

1581  Absolute Truth, B?oHdhczogR2VucmUtTm90ZXMgZnJvbSBCdWVub3MgQWlyZXM?= (1)
Leopoldo Betrico wrote an 8K message (Most messages are 1-2K) Con todo respecto: This is not Philosophy-L, Politics-L or some other discussion list. This is Tango-L for discussions on tango. Let's...

1582  Recuerdos de Buenos Aires 7/5 (1)
7/5 Saturday late morning. Not enough sleep but have to go out to the barrio Flores to see Juan Carlos of "Le Tango" about custom shoes. After a quick coffee head out on the Subte linea E end of the...

1583  Growing communities: "Nuevo vs. Milonguero" or "Nuevo includes Milonguero"? (7)
El Duke wrote: Then Trini wrote: Before this turns into a style food-fight, it may be useful to clarify one point, through a simple multiple-choice quiz: Q: "Milonguero" is related to "Nuevo" as... 1)...

1584  Growing communities: "vs." or "includes": a clarification (1)
Thus it seems that ANY strictly style-based system of learning or dancing tango(such as ballroom or milonguero) will tend to be relatively static, based as it is on ruling things out which don't suit...

1585  Absolute Truth, was: Genre-Notes from Buenos (1)
Leopoldo wrote (in response to John Taylor): "....Ummm... again, I think you're being a bit closed-minded. I presume you believe that you're so called sane, and everything should be measured to you and...

1586  Please take me off the mailing list (1)
Just too busy at work to open the numerous emails. I'll come back on at a later time. Thanks, Jan Carpenter Executive Assistant SSA Global Technologies, Inc. tel 312.258.6137 fax 312.258.6504 jcarpent@ssax.com

1587  Notes from Buenos Aires 12 (1)
We are back from a week in Uruguay, tanned, rested, and ready to resume reporting on tango and tourism in Greater Buenos Aires and suburbs. This report is about a very very far suburb. Uruguay. Friday,...

1588  Notes from Buenos Aires 13 (2)
Uruguay (Part 2, continued from 'Notes from Buenos Aires 12') If tango is alive and well in BsAs, it is, well... alive in Montevideo. The schedule says there are a lot of milongas, but they were hard to...

1589  Striker/Captain Charisma (1)
El Duke! Thanks for exposing us "close-embracers", as well as your own ignorance! How many destilladores had you drunk when you composed this poetic work of art? Now we know why you "relocate so quick"!

1590  Revival of Tango in North America / Pellicoro Book (3)
A colleague of mine recently handed me a book "Paul Pellicoro on Tango", asking me for my opinion on it, as well as what I knew about the author. The book has some good parts, but what gave me an overall...

1591  updating tango calendar/*la voz del tango* (1)
attention us & canada milonga and practica organizers!!! hi friends! :-) we are in the process of revising an updating our guide to milongas and practicas around the u.s. and now, canada will...

1592  The Exclamation Point! (1)
Can addressing a person be that exciting? I thought to myself, this person is headed for an emotional burn out. A chorus of exclamation points says two things about your writing: First, you're not confident...

1593  clarification/updating calendar/*la voz del tango* (1)
hi, guys, :-) it's me again... thank you for your response, however, a point of clarification is needed: would you kindly submit your information exactly, as requested? perhaps i was not sufficiently...

1594  Notes from Buenos Aires 14 (1)
Notes from the dark side: Teaching tango. (Part 1 of 2) 'I am a teacher of tango. Not a miracle worker.' -Celia Blanco I posted the two following sentences before, but it doesn't hurt to repeat...

1595  Notes from Buenos Aires 15 (3)
Notes from the dark side: Teaching tango. (Part 2 of 2. Continued from Report #14) Alejandra says Celia uses the eight count basic because it contains all the elements you need to walk tango. But the... shouts at her students, uses the eight count basic, and calls...

1596  It was 8 years from now (1)
On a july 25th, 1995, Don Osvaldo Pugliese left us. Eight years after, we may say there is a " Galaxy Pugliese" conformed by gifted musicians of Argentina and all over the world that keep alive their...

1597  New CLASSIC TANGO CLUB (1)
Greetings Everyone, CLASSIC TANGO has a new look & many new items available, including DVDs. I invite you to join our new CLASSIC TANGO CLUB in which you will be = offered many fantastic discounts...

1598  Tango in Uruguay (BA Note 13) (2)
Tango is indeed alive in Montevideo, but not exactly easy to find. I have not seen many up-to-date listings of them on the Ineternet. For those who are thinking of visiting, here are some places: Cafe...

1599  Dancing in Montevideo (BA Note 13) (1)
The Mercado de la Abundancia is a special place indeed. Rick, you described the setting well. The milonga there is run by Joven Tango, an organization that host classes in a studio just behind one...

1600  what exactly is fantasia? (8)
Greetings all, This may be a silly question, but here I go: how is "fantasia" Tango defined? I have the general idea, flashier show tango. But if one saw fantasia style tango on a social dance floor (gasp...