By rusty, on August 2nd, 2010%
Argentine Tango – The Quick Version
One of the fascinating things about tango is it’s deeply historical mysterious origins. The history of tango is mysterious not in that no one knows the history of tango but rather, the history of tango is a bit of a mystery because tango was not fully recognized or acknowledged during . . . → Read More: The History of Tango
By rusty, on March 12th, 2010%
KOLD – CBS – News came to call… As I stand on the slippery slope of time, our second festival slides off into the warm glow of the evening sunset… but soon, very soon the sun will rise again on another celebration of loving everything tango Argentino! . . . → Read More: Thank You Tucson Tango Community
By rusty, on February 22nd, 2010%
In the end tango is seeing clearly your body in relation to itself, gravity, time and space and then its juxtaposition and relationship to your partner\’s discreet state in relations again to time and space. . . . → Read More: Growing in Tango
By rusty, on December 12th, 2009%
When we went to Australia in June of 2009, we gave away our TV because it consumes so much time and we get hungry when we watch TV. This is a video talk by Benjamin Zander a world class conductor getting people excited about classical music: . . . → Read More: Inspiration – Shinning Eyes
By rusty, on October 13th, 2009%
It is no accident that the mood of an entire tanda is the same even to the point of having the same orchestra from the same year with the same sound and rhythms to the songs (for instance Rodolfo Biagi used to play piano for Anibal Troilo, when Biagi formed his own orchestra the sound of Troilos music changed radically, so you wouldnt want to mix songs with and without Biagis famous rhythms in a Troilo tanda because it would disrupt the flow and connection developed by the milonguero) tango is a complicated dance and there are nights and partners where it takes all 4 similar songs to create a good connection a milonguero depends on this structure to create confidence in his partner. . . . → Read More: Why Do We Still Dance to These Old Tango Songs?
By rusty, on June 15th, 2009%
So to choreograph a dance is to make a symbolic representation of moving about in a lively or frolicking way as opposed to improvising your dance, which would mean that you would make a lively or frolicking motion out of whatever is at hand. . . . → Read More: Play and Tango
Thank You Tucson Tango Community
KOLD – CBS – News came to call… As I stand on the slippery slope of time, our second festival slides off into the warm glow of the evening sunset… but soon, very soon the sun will rise again on another celebration of loving everything tango Argentino! . . . → Read More: Thank You Tucson Tango Community