Category Archives: Tango y nada mas

To the brave and faithful nothing is impossible

Posted on November 19, 2008 by LimerickTango

Tango is a confidence trick. To be danced well it must be danced with confidence. To be even danced half properly it must be danced with confidance. When you are having problems with a step and your confidence in your … Continue reading →

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To practice, teach or learn

Posted on November 14, 2008 by LimerickTango

Fencing is not something that you practice, it is not something that you learn. It is something you are taught. The role of the teacher is very important. Tango, however, is something that you learn. There are certain things that … Continue reading →

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Advanced tango

Posted on November 12, 2008 by LimerickTango

There is no such thing as advanced tango. The dance does not become more complex and difficult. There are no secret steps. What advances is your understanding; of your self, of your balance of your partner and of the possibilities.

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Heart and Sole

Posted on November 4, 2008 by LimerickTango

Our world has two magnetic poles, north and south, that we use to navigate around our pear shaped1 planet. Equally the world of tango has two poles that people are drawn towards. The heart and the sole. Those at the … Continue reading →

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Bait and switch

Posted on October 28, 2008 by LimerickTango

The performance. If you wander along to YouTube and search for tango videos what will be returned to you will be a selection of recordings of tango performances and perhaps a class or two. If you dig very deep you … Continue reading →

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The power of suggestion

Posted on October 24, 2008 by LimerickTango

Over the past number of months I’ve read several posts by tango bloggers who find that performances are leaving them cold. A consistent theme was the dislike of performances where the dancers focus was on the audience and everything was … Continue reading →

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Rusty

Posted on October 21, 2008 by LimerickTango

With two songs down in the tanda the music suddenly changed to milonga. “My milonga’s a bit rusty”. “Ah, we’ll give it a go”, she said. It was true. I hadn’t danced a decent milonga in months. I had lost … Continue reading →

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Trying

Posted on October 16, 2008 by LimerickTango

“I’ve been trying to play the guitar for sixty years” BB King

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1,000 phrases

Posted on August 8, 2008 by LimerickTango

The auspicious 8/8/08 sees the beginning of the Bejing Olympics. To help the locals running the ticket stalls and other businesses in the vicinity language courses have been run. Well, when I say language courses, what they were taught was … Continue reading →

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What is Nuevo Tango?

Posted on August 1, 2008 by LimerickTango

Much gets written about Nuevo Tango, possibly because it is easier to write about the new than find fertile thought in well trod ground, the literary equivalent of cut and burn. But what exactly is nuevo tango? I’m beginning to … Continue reading →

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