Year: 2024
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Financial habits and finding teachers
In a previous post, I was writing about dancers who look poor or rich and how sometimes it’s the dancers who look poor who are actually rich. … What Robert mentioned in his response was that some fashion brands for rich people oftentimes have two different lines of products. In one of them, the company’s…
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Women, sex and Tango
In my second most visited post for 2023 titled “Men, sex and Tango” I received a lot of comments that were “accusing” me of propagating a stereotype of sex-hungry men and that there are also women who misbehave and cross boundaries. In some comments, people even described personal experiences. I initially responded (and it was…
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Classes? Me? Why?
A few months ago I posted an article saying that I no longer care to take classes. The day the article was posted I signed up for a weekend of classes with Paula Tejeda and Lucas Carizio. Now you are wondering if I am a split personality or if I was just trolling you in…
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Why do you dance Tango?
Why should we wait for a few professionals to win their battle with the devil and get their performances promoting social tango? Also, a performance is never done in a social context. The floor is never crowded, you cannot see the respect to your fellow dancers, and you cannot see the social dimension of the…
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A sweet fainting
A story by Ramiro Villapadierna All too softly, the unknown tanguera seemed starting to somehow stretch each measure of the music, in a subtle but intense way, every step whimsically taking advantage of that distance that goes from her high-heel to her toe. The tango was entering a sweet languid slumber, increasingly dense and emotional. I…
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