their cross.
Hector at Nino Bien and Lo de Celia starts a lead to
a cross and then makes me do a small, tight boleo
around my own right foot.. using the momentum of my
movement just as he would any other boleo.
But what do I know? I am only a follower.
Nancy
--- Igor Polk [EMAIL PROTECTED
From Tito of N. Carolina:
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/09/12/211327.php
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Hi Astrid,
I have been trying to reach you. Please contact
me.
Nancy
--- Astrid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gawd, I love this stuff ! Did you see Pablo's
rehearsal? The most exuberant
thing I have seen in a long time.. One can subscribe
to all those clips as
podcasts in i-tunes, but I
From BsAs, in Spanish:
http://www.puntotango.com.ar
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and would like an email or phone contact for Argentine
tango. I prefer salon/milonguero style Argentine
tango.
Xiexie,
Nancy
Rito es la danza en tu vida
y el tango que tu amas
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por
What the tourists don't see ( with thanks to Maya
Frost's blog):
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And the women keep telling the men not to refer to
them in that way and they keep justifying their way
of thinking. Which may be a metaphor for men in
tango: some are in it for the dominance and control
factor and some are in it for the sharing and caring
relationship factor. Consider with
Try a search on Tango-SM.
--- Victor Bennetts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I don't like it if she beats me like a drum. But if
she beats me like an egg, that's different story
;-).
Merry Christmas all,
Victor Bennetts
Meaning of lifei tried to play my follower like a
cow bell, and she
And brooms are the perfect followers, aren't they?
They always do exactly what you tell them to do, they
never 'mess up' your timing or your step lengths or
your balance and they never do those annoying
embellishments that thwart your creativity. They also
show up when you want them and stay in
).
GRIN
Nancy
--- Shahrukh Merchant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The first thing that most Argentine men ask the
woman after the first
dance is if she feels comfortable. In 12 years, I
only heard that
from one non-Argentine man.
Hmm, I thought, What's your phone number? was the
first
Krasimir,
Can you please direct us to a video of you dancing
'correctly'?
Thanks so much,
Nancy
--- Krasimir Stoyanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree that this time Gistavo/Guiselle dance really
interesting. Usually
not so.
This time they dance almost correctly, the
deviations from
As the title makes clear, this is the summation of a
workshop, not a dance. I have danced with two of you
critics. This is a case of the pot calling the kettle
a bad tango dancer.
--- Igor Polk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chris:
Crikey. I hope that poor girl was well paid:
Oleh,
Check out the bomba and plena music of Puerto Rico.
I think the instruments and the rhythms have similar
sources.
Nancy
Loves to dance.almost everything!
--- Oleh Kovalchuke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kizomba
Kizomba is one of the most popular
When you and Igor joined the list, you agreed to
certain terms and rules. Some folks are real tired of
your little catfights and the too frequent postings. I
know several people who have unsubscribed because of
the juvenile behavior. The List Owner has the right
and the responsibility to
--- Nina Pesochinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then things began to change. As the number of
foregners increased
everywhere, there became more and more of them at
Nino Bien. Now it
is a boring sitting milonga where the Argentine
dancers go to hang
out with their friends and see
and
then. And the men seem to enjoy it. It is especially
fun at the end of a milonga.
Nancy
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--- Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nancy, is there any American alive today who knows
more about
Tango than Oscar Casas? Simple question.
Yes. Simple answer.
And, as I
said - he's
just one example. The real question is, who knows
more about
teaching and dancing Tango
any other nationality? And do you
believe than any Argentine is a better tango teacher
than any non-Argentine tango teacher? If so, why are
you teaching?
Respectfully,
Nancy
--- Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tom, do you think you know more about Tango than
Oscar Casas - he's just
go against the line of dance.
Nancy
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Be a better friend, newshound
Please send these IDs directly to Miles, not to the
Tango-L.
Thanks,
Nancy
--- m i l e s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm needing some help with identifying some folks in
some of the
images that are in my FLICKR page from ValenTango.
Specifically if you are from Portland or Seattle
Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien by Brian
Winter.
Available thru Amazon after March 3. See a summary
at:
//www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=9781586483708
That's all I know about it. I have ordered it and
will let you know.
Nancy
* Nino Bien is how
misunderstandings result from trying to discuss apples
and oranges on this list. Or should that be:
Performance/nuevo/traditional/neo/close-embrace
milonguero [Gricel style]/V-style semi-open close
embrace [Nito Elba]/your own version
heredanced
to..
Nancy
a Yanqui's missteps in Argentina. By Brian Winter.
Part travel memoir, and part a love letter to a
remarkable, troubled, and irresistible county and the
dance that epitomizes it...a step into the
Argentine soul.
What can I say? It is a very entertaining, easy read.
Covers the
If that is your home turf, then I don't understand why
you don't take lessons from any number of good
teachers in the area. You shouldn't have to try to
suss out moves from the Internet or by asking listeros
to talk you through certain movements.
Curiously,
Nancy
--- Mario [EMAIL PROTECTED
,
hand or arms to recover from being man-handled by a
beginner. It should always be the lady's choice. The
men who are asked by women should also have the option
to decline a dance - whether it is done thru the
cabaceo or more directly. The cabaceo works and saves
face and is not unkind.
Nancy
was answering.
Nancy
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as he
learns more from his travels.
IMHO,
Nancy
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are only your 'instruments', right maestro?
We should stick to our passive, submissive roles,
right? The supporters for the analogy were two males
who repeatedly posted defenses - and they are no
longer with us.
What is the ratio of violins to maestros in Buffalo?
Nancy
Let's assume another possibility. That Mario, a
student of tango of only six months who, by his own
admission, learns mostly from YouTube, might not have
a good axis or balance or leading ability himself.
Remember he is in a community where there are no
teachers according to him. He might have
-%20A.mpg
But I guess that is the way you do it in the Tango
Capital of Buffalo.
Nancy
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Gavito when he paused for whole
measures on the social dance floor?
You WISH you could dance like those folksor do you
prefer dancing with violins, too?
Nancy
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--- Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Careful Astrid, you're forgetting your place. Any
more such
mutinous talk about doing things without the
maestro's divine
leadership and Floyd will orderyou back in your box
Correction, Keith. Violin case, please.
Rito es la danza en tu vida
that Javier is a great dancer, I would
have to dance with him.
Nancy
--- Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nancy,
I agree with what you say, but when we're not
dancing, we're
often watching other people dancing. Don't you love
to see
smooth, elegant Tango by wonderful dancers who make
it all
at least one milonga organizer who
is trying to enforce the codes. If he doesn't. the
local patrons will go elsewhere. Remember, too, that
in BsAs, there are choices every afternoon and night
of the week - at least 15 different milongas happening
around the city.
Nancy
Six more days to Mecca.
Rito es
always taught me and say, thank you, they are likely to reply
It is I who should thank you for the honor of letting me dance with such a
divine, elegant, yadda yadda woman.
And perhaps, Mario, I am a different woman in Buenos Aires but who has the
magic wand?
Nancy
--- On Mon, 4/28/08
--- On Mon, 4/28/08, Nina Pesochinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And, (would you believe ?!), it is possible to walk into a
milonga in
BsAs, full of people, some very good dancers, and say
There is
nobody here to dance with!.
Ah yes! The 'I have nothing to wear' closet.
N
to get a bigger fedora for that bulging ego of
yours.
Nancy
--- On Thu, 5/1/08, Floyd Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So how about testing instructors for their competance in
teaching
Tango? I'm sure it isn't a new thought... We
really do need to
have Tango instructors pass some kind
Uhm..because we have seen what inbreeding in a small geographical area
produces?
Nancy
--- On Thu, 5/8/08, Chris, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Subject: Re: [Tango-L] Stone Soup 2008 Follow Up
To: Tango-L@mit.edu
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday
Here is a link to the page Charles mentions:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/arts/dance/14coll.html?ref=arts
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To:
--- On Wed, 6/4/08, Darlene Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just returned from BsAs and am thankful for the
timeliness of this discussion. What I found to be
interesting is that our BELOVED cabaceo isn't used
everywhere. Men simply had no problem asking me directly
to dance and I
THIS is milonga.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KhBuOwJPcU
All others are wannabes. Watch all of the YouTube clips of Dany 'el Flaco'
Garcia. He is El Rey de la milonga. And he can also dance awesome swing and
salsa and tango and vals. You will note the absence of what I call 'the polka
extrememly selective memory Nancy,
search this list
for Chris, UK and Gavito.
H! Mea culpa, mea culpa.
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Is this our own ChrisUK?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPFUnCUG8-0
Please explain how this differs ( if it does) from a flashmob. Other than not
having audible music..
Thanks,
Nancy
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Astrid is incommunicado at present due to a computer problem but wanted you all
to know that she can read the messages and will be back with us ASAP.
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to be. And if
they 'force' lead with their hands, I take a stroll to my table.
Nancy
--- On Fri, 8/1/08, Deby Novitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Subject: [Tango-L] Leading with hands
To: tango-l@mit.edu
Date: Friday, August 1, 2008, 1:20 PM
I am
we should let the principles
handle it from here on out unless we need to find another home for the
Archives.
Nancy
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Subject: [Tango-L] Update on saving the Tango-L archives
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and they have never been more than marginally successful and most have died
within months.
Thanks to Shahrukh and Lucy,
Nancy
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Look at the Youtube videos from Maleva Tango Tutorials. There are several.
Jennifer Bratt demonstrates both front and back ochos, high and low, with and
without kicks.
--- On Wed, 8/6/08, David Thorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First few seconds. Liz is lead to spiral at the waist, her
leg
to non-traditional music by the legendary Graciela Gonzalez with Marcelo
Varela. Note her impeccable embellishments and how they have squeezed out
every bit of musicality in the piece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4-8lfwYqTQ
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to Colorado to teach folk dance for those who might be
interested. Monica runs the popular Tuesday night milonga in Coconut Grove in
Miami at the Ritz-Carleton.
Nancy
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- especially
Bandelier Nat'l Monument.
Nancy
A veteran of this festival and several others
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really like it.
It makes me more comfortable and connected to my partner. Perhaps in your own
community you already know the folks very well ( or too well?).
Nancy
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Curiously,
Nancy
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Sherwin,
Enough already. You very likely have opted for the do not show my message
when you selected your mail options. This is the THIRD message that appears on
Tango-L in three days. Trust me. I emailed you privately earlier.
Nancy
--- On Tue, 10/28/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL
it.' Don't you
agree?
Un abrazo,
Nancy
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Short, but sweet. By a man who lives in BsAs.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/traveltips/12/25/tango.etiquette/index.html
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What you need to remember, too, is that all those
milongueros are getting older every day. I notice
that the guys who were such dreamy dancers eight
years ago have deteriorated in balance, hearing,
eyesight and movement of joints. And yes, for sure,
as we dance with better trained dancers at
and BsAsat least where I dance.
Nancy
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And the original poster has not recalled the item as a
joke. I am still waiting. I guess the next time I see
something ridiculous, I will be mean and
sarcastic.oh, wait. that would be all the
time, right?
Nancy
--- buffmilongu...@aol.com wrote:
I think the reason so many
in mambo
http://www.expertvillage.com/video/19760_mambo-dance-check-man.htm
Altho the guy in the demo makes it look more like
the wee wee dance little kids do. Certainly not the
mambo step I was taught in my ballroom days.
Nancy
as they clutch our hand
with their sweaty
palms.
YOU 1) invite or 2) accept an invitation to dance
with those awful women. And you deserve so much
better, don't you?
Nancy
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This rant is not new. This justification is not new.
Here is my question: Who decides if you are messing
with the other dancers or the line of dance? It isn't
just physical contact that is bothersome. The whole
rhythm of the pista can be thrown off by very slow
volcadas or high boleos. I
from my iPhone, from somewhere...
On 11/04/2009, at 5:51 AM, NANCY
ningle_2...@yahoo.com wrote:
This rant is not new. This justification is not
new.
Here is my question: Who decides if you are
messing
with the other dancers or the line of dance? It
isn't
just physical contact
--- crrta...@aol.com wrote:
Not the exclusive domain, no, but definitely a
characteristic. Most nuevo
dancers seem unaware of the rest of the room.
I have been thinking about this a bit. I notice that
some of my old friends who have always danced
milonguero style are now taking
. NOT what I had come to Argentina to see!
At least swing is a 'slot dance' and thus it did not
interrupt the ronda too much.
Nancy
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Alex made it quite clear on his new Blog that the same rules would apply as
those of Tango-L. If you can create an alias then why not anonymous?
Especially if one lives in the same community as the teacher( and who would
know better about the quality of the teaching?), anonymity lends some
Just to note: teachers can also post rave reviews about their own work.
whether anonymously or under aliases.
And - many of the 'names' on Tango-L are aliases.
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weather, and the
beginning of the month when folks have just been paid...maybe.
Reported flights and apt. rentals cancelled but no sign of lower prices.
Everything still open around here. I was here last year for the campo strike
and the fires so deja vu all over again,
Nancy
this helps you make a very personal decision.
Nancy
--- On Sun, 7/5/09, Felix Delgado felixydelg...@hotmail.com wrote:
From: Felix Delgado felixydelg...@hotmail.com
Subject: [Tango-L] Requesting Truth about Impact of Swine Flu on Buenos Aires
milongas
To: tango-l@mit.edu
Date: Sunday, July 5
,Nancy
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that Rick McGarrey
used it to illustrate his Blog because he surly knows it is a show and not a
typical milonga pista where these gentlemen dance.
Nancy
--- On Sun, 10/18/09, Ecsedy Áron a...@milonga.hu wrote:
From: Ecsedy Áron a...@milonga.hu
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] TANGO 2000 For DUMMIES
many rules and regs were passed without much foresight. I recently had to get
visas for India and China. They both took over 60 days and about $80-$120 to
acquire. Why can't we just all get along?
Nancy
--- On Mon, 12/14/09, Tango22 tang...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Tango22 tang...@gmail.com
El Tangauta is reporting that he has died. No further information at this time.
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Yes. The cruzada is used in Cha cha and also in Viennese Waltz and is usually
called a lock step. It may be used in others, but it has been a while since my
conversion by immersion to Argentine Tango.
Nancy
Dear listmembers, especially those versed in ballroom and other dances,
Does
Come on, Nicetune You know what message she was sending you. What you
want from the group is a condemnation of her behavior so you can go back
to her and 'reason' with her and change her mind. Am I guessing you
are an engineer or a lawyer? Reasoning with her about her feelings is a
no-win
And I can tell you that many Argentine couples sit apart at certain milongas
but might sit together at, say, a Saturday night milonga where we single women
who have danced with the gentleman at other milongas are expected not to
acknowledge the man or the woman unless they do so, first. To say
to my
favorite tangueros that year.
Nancy
--- On Thu, 8/19/10, Ruben Malan rubenma...@comcast.net wrote:
From: Ruben Malan rubenma...@comcast.net
Subject: [Tango-L] Fw: Social-ethical behaviors and protocols
To: tango-l@mit.edu
Date: Thursday, August 19, 2010, 6:53 PM
[Tango-L] Social-ethical
women away from my old menif you are man enough and a
good enough dancer.
Nancy
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--- On Thu, 9/16/10, Sergey Kazachenko syarz...@gmail.com wrote:
Nancy,
While I agree with most of your points, I have to ask - what is wrong with HATS?
Of course, I mean, when the height difference is large enough so that
the hat does not violate the closeness of the abrazo.
Sergey
May you
--- On Tue, 10/12/10, Huck Kennedy tempeh...@gmail.com wrote:
Without disturbing anyone? I think you may have misspelled
without bumping into anyone. Who's to say that nobody was
distracted from their ongoing tango reverie and yanked back into the
real world by being forced to deal with
to condemn all portenos who rent apartments to
tourists. I have only had good experiences with landlords and cab drivers.
Nancy
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Ask yourself would I want a surgeon who had only learned his skill from
Youtube videos or one who had studied under the finest surgeons and performed
multiple surgeries under supervision and been selected from a number of
applicants for a surgical residency or do I want to trust in someone who
--- On Thu, 6/16/11, hbboog...@aol.com hbboog...@aol.com wrote:
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Subject: [Tango-L] Men's strategies
To: tango-l@mit.edu
Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011, 11:15 PM
Micheal, this is wonderful, i am glad you shared it with the listI
have one issue to
and negotiate a tanda unless
both the man and his partner are very old friends and he would still
wait to see what music will be played before he commits to a dance.
Just a quick question, Nancy--since a milonguero is willing
to commit to the next tanda while still dancing, how can it be said
or in her
travels only know her as a positive, generous, friendly person. Proof of the
healing power of el abrazo tanguero.
Book now available on Amazon and soon to be on Kindle.
NFI
Nancy
--- On Mon, 1/23/12, macfro...@aol.com macfro...@aol.com wrote:
From: macfro...@aol.com macfro...@aol.com
And it is ten dollars cheaper on Kindle but worth three times the price. If
you have ever toyed with the idea of living in a foreign country or if you have
ever wanted to succumb to despair or if you have ever wondered if tango was
worth the work and suffering, then read this.
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1) Are they a member of the club?
2) Do they support the club by attending milongas and sending their students?
3) Have they taught a class prior to a milonga and was it well received by the
students?
4) Are they able to dance both stage and social tango or do they only dance
teach stage
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