Argentine Tango
February 23, 2009
- I recently co-wrote and appeared in a stage show entitled "Tango: A Romantic Ritual". It was video-taped and is available from Social Dance Cultures. I was interviewed for the show as well, and I hope you'll take a look at these few portions of the conversation.
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February 22, 2009
- I recently co-wrote and appeared in a stage show entitled "Tango: A Romantic Ritual". It was video-taped and is available from Social Dance Cultures. I was interviewed for the show as well, and I hope you'll take a look at these few portions of the conversation.
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February 21, 2009
- I recently co-wrote and appeared in a stage show entitled "Tango: A Romantic Ritual". It was video-taped and is available from Social Dance Cultures. I was interviewed for the show as well, and I hope you'll take a look at these few portions of the conversation.
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February 5, 2009
- As the tango says: Así se baila el tango,sintiendo en la cara,la sangre que subea cada compás,(Thus is tango danced,feeling in the facethe blood that riseswith each rhythm.)I’m involved in two major Argentine tango events in the San Francisco Bay Area on Valentine’s weekend. Please join us. . .¡Milonga de amor! At The Ferry Building (at The Embarcadero and Market Street in San Francisco), ...
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December 10, 2008
- In contemporary Argentine tango music, there is “Before Astor” and “After Astor”. Astor Piazzolla (a master of the bandoneón, the concertina-like instrument that many consider the soul of tango) revolutionized the genre in ways that either electrified his numberless fans (most of them outside of Buenos Aires, Argentina, which is the home of tango) or infuriated his many detractors (most ...
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August 20, 2008
- In the world-wide community of Argentine tango (an enormous community now on every continent), there are a few maestros that are sought after everywhere. These are people who have studied, danced, and written about tango so extensively that to dance with them means that you’ll receive the distilled essence of the form itself — its movement, its history, its soul.One of these maestros — ...
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April 15, 2008
- Tango is back, the kids are dancing it in Buenos Aires and world-wide, and this is a good thing. It was relegated for many years –- especially in Argentina, where it was born -- to the status of an old dance done by old people in a rickety sort of way. There were several reasons for this. Rock and roll came to Argentina in the nineteen-sixties with the same force with which it went ...
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February 26, 2008
- Eva Perón poured out her personal feelings through a combination of her remarkable image -- fueled by photography, fashion and make-up -- and forceful public policy. She was as controversial as she was in part because there was so little nuance in what she wanted to be or what she wished to do. By most accounts, Evita was during her life the most powerful woman in the world. So it is a shock ...
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February 14, 2008
- Astor Piazzolla's music is nothing if not controversial. Among the Argentines themselves, there seems to be two opinions. One was voiced to me some years ago by an Argentine tanguera whose artistic views I always listen to, when she said that "Tango is tango, and Piazzolla is not!" The other is stated just as militantly in favor of Piazzolla's efforts. Wildly so. Piazzolla died in ...
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