LimerickTango » Tango is http://www.limericktango.com ...from the Shannon to the Rio de la Plate Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:58:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Tango is http://www.limericktango.com/2011/11/tango-is-8/ http://www.limericktango.com/2011/11/tango-is-8/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:58:49 +0000 LimerickTango http://www.limericktango.com/?p=679 As sharp as his suit and as elegant as her dress.

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“The secret of tango is in this moment of improvisation that happens between step and step. It is to make the impossible thing possible: to dance silence.”
– Carlos Gavito

]]> http://www.limericktango.com/2011/10/dance-silence/feed/ 0 Tango is http://www.limericktango.com/2010/08/tango-is-7/ http://www.limericktango.com/2010/08/tango-is-7/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:29:21 +0000 nev http://www.limericktango.com/?p=372 Tango is the language you sing in along to the music.

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]]> http://www.limericktango.com/2010/07/tango/feed/ 0 Tango is… http://www.limericktango.com/2009/12/tango-is-6/ http://www.limericktango.com/2009/12/tango-is-6/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:04:47 +0000 LimerickTango http://www.limericktango.com/?p=613 Tango is sensory overload. Be it through multiplicity of steps or depth of embrace.

]]> http://www.limericktango.com/2009/12/tango-is-6/feed/ 0 Tango is http://www.limericktango.com/2009/08/tango-is-5/ http://www.limericktango.com/2009/08/tango-is-5/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:05:00 +0000 LimerickTango http://www.limericktango.com/?p=475 Tango is not ganchos.

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]]> http://www.limericktango.com/2009/04/tango-is-4/feed/ 3 Tango is http://www.limericktango.com/2008/12/tango-is-3/ http://www.limericktango.com/2008/12/tango-is-3/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:05:47 +0000 LimerickTango http://www.limericktango.com/?p=340 …danced for an audience of one.

]]> http://www.limericktango.com/2008/12/tango-is-3/feed/ 0 Risk http://www.limericktango.com/2008/12/risk/ http://www.limericktango.com/2008/12/risk/#comments Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:59:18 +0000 LimerickTango http://www.limericktango.com/?p=325 Continue reading →]]> While watching the Insurance episode of Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money it struck me how much there is an element of risk in dancing tango.

You have no idea of your partners qualities or abilities, what steps they do or do not know, where the music will take you or what steps you will do.

It is, in essence, the gamblers perfect dance.

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