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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Limerick Tango 3rd Anniversary Workshop & Ball
Saturday 21st February. Best Western Pery’s Hotel, Glentworth St, Limerick (www.perys.ie) Instruction by Beatriz Cisneros (www.beatanguera.weebly.com) Workshop 1: 2.15-3.45pm €15 Desert island tango exercises Technique exercises for when you’re stranded and can’t get to the dance floor Workshop 2: 4-6pm … Continue reading
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Tango Monsters
I shall prefix this post by stating that it is written from the perspective of someone who is six foot three and therefore taller than the majority of followers I have danced with. You will see tango monsters just before … Continue reading
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Blatant
One of the pluses of having to travel for over an hour to other milongas is the conversations on the way home. One topic that came up a while back, and that has made recurring appearences since, is the idea … Continue reading
Meeting half way
It is not acceptable to approach tango on your own terms. To absorb and adapt to tango you must be prepared to shift your ground. But so too must tango, and especially its travelling teachers, adapt its explanations to those … Continue reading
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Secondhand love stories
The following was recounted by Redmond O’Toole at the launch of Limerick’s 2009 Unfringed performance festival. The gypsy girl goes to the grave of her former lover who was killed by her rich now husband, at whose hand her former … Continue reading
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Teaching and Learning
I have five lessons to teach. What lessons they choose to learn is entirely up to them. -Nanny McPhee The lessons that I have learned in tango have not always been those that were being taught. What can be taught … Continue reading
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A is for…
A is for Advanced Accomplished in years of dancing; what many soi-disant ‘Advanced’ dancers are as opposed to the advanced individuals they think they are.
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RTÉ Tango
Enrique & Marion, of Caminos de Tango, will appear on RTÉs Ones Seoige, Monday 16.25-17.20, where they will give a demonstration and be introduced to their challenge candidate who they will be teaching.
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This is hardcore
What exactly do you do for an encore? Pulp – This is hardcore This is exactly what goes through my mind when I see dances by Wonderboy – “every flash move” type dancers. Why exactly are you putting yourself under … Continue reading
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