Monthly Archives: August 2008

Photos

Posted on August 31, 2008 by LimerickTango

The hammering has died down and I think the paint should be dry enough to reveal a) the addition of a new photos page that is connected directly, hence the banging and the sawing, to b) the LimerickTango photo pool … Continue reading →

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Limerick Argentine Tango Night & Workshop September 13th

Posted on August 29, 2008 by LimerickTango

Limerick Argentine Tango Night & Workshop Date: Saturday September 13th Location: Upstairs, The Bank, 62 O’Connell St, Limerick Workshop: 7.30pm Subject: “Leading ganchos in close embrace” for int/adv. students (we will work in order to make this with disociation of the … Continue reading →

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Open and honest debate

Posted on August 28, 2008 by LimerickTango

WARNING: This posts contains unprovoked rants. If you are going to hold forth with staunchly held incendiary opinions on your blog then you really should provide a mechanism for response, be it comments (you don’t have to publish them) or … Continue reading →

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Tango and the Art of Archery

Posted on August 28, 2008 by LimerickTango

As well as swinging the odd sword I have also been known to bend the bow (a 32 pound middle ages Hungarian bow in the pursuit of field archery, for those who are curious). An old archery training annecedote came … Continue reading →

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Consuming Passions

Posted on August 27, 2008 by LimerickTango

Kudos to John Rownan for taking part in RTEs Consuming Passions program and sharing some of his love of tango with the world.

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Preparatory Cycle: review

Posted on August 26, 2008 by LimerickTango

Right, eight weeks down, time to look back over what I have done. I’ve covered ochos, backward and forward, turns, mordidas, the dreaded basic eight and one or two other steps all executed from the walk. So walk, ocho, walk. … Continue reading →

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Maestro

Posted on August 22, 2008 by LimerickTango

Last night I watched ‘Maestro’ the BBCs latest celebrity talent competition where the prize is to conduct a piece at the last night of the proms. A number of the comments made about conducting and the individuals conducting ability, I … Continue reading →

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Vision

Posted on August 21, 2008 by LimerickTango

Before a camera is even touched much of the hard work of photography is done. The elements that make a photograph – those of location finding, pre-visualising, composing and planning – all come before a lens is fitted. The only … Continue reading →

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Preparatory VIII

Posted on August 20, 2008 by LimerickTango

The basico cruzado. Yes I know I wrote that I was doing away with the cross but in the end the old ‘basic-8′ was the most suitable for the eight class. There are a number of reasons it finally made … Continue reading →

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Whores de Combat

Posted on August 19, 2008 by LimerickTango

It’s a subject that I have been meaning to write about for some time. So thanks to Alex‘s post for kicking me into action. It’s the old chestnut about tango beginning in the brothels of Buenos Aires, a typical version … Continue reading →

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