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If you want to dance…

LimerickTango — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:06:35 +0000

If you want to dance, then want to dance.

Sit up, face the floor and want to dance.

The male of the species are not fantastically conscious of body language but it has its effects on us. If you sit slouched and disheartened at the lack of dances then the signal you are sending out is one of poor posture and lack of enthusiasm. The fine young things get more dances, in part, because they sit up with all the bubbly enthusiasm of youth.

If you want to dance, want to

Tubbs Tango

LimerickTango — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:13:03 +0000

In the manner of Tubbs from The League of Gentlemen

“This is a Social Dance, for Social people”

..once in Buenos Aires

LimerickTango — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:01:17 +0000

“I saw a tango show once in Buenos Aires”, he said. The tone of his voice indicated that, while he consider it to be amazing, what he had been shown was show tango and therefore believed that he’d never be … Continue reading →

Eleanor Roosevelt

LimerickTango — Thu, 20 May 2010 11:29:07 +0000

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Two places at once

LimerickTango — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:02:47 +0000

One of the problems of being a man of many parts is that every so often one part collides and gets in the way of another. In this case it is my camera and 3 tonnes of fireworks colliding with the Cork Tango festival. It just so happens that the National Lottery Skyfest fireworks display, to be held this year in Limerick, and the Cork Tango festival ball are both on the night of Saturday 13th March.

That being said the fireworks will probably be over by 9 and the ball doesn’t start until 9.30-ish

First tango fix of the New Year

LimerickTango — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:00:52 +0000

Dear God I needed that.

Codigos

LimerickTango — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:34:58 +0000

How can a society that created The Rules have a problem with Codigos?

The good, the bad and the ugly

LimerickTango — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:23:34 +0000

This comes from a recent conversation I had with someone on the topic of ‘there are no bad teachers’. The thrust of his arguement was that there are no bad teachers just wrong teachers. Many of the ‘bad’ teachers out there have been labelled so because they dance a style not suited to their dissaproving former clients or use a teaching model that is at odds with how some people think. This largely explains how one mans genius is another mans git.

And oh if this were the end of the story.

But it’s not. Because littered amoung the understood and missunderstood good and bad there are the ugly. Those who should not teach. This cohort is largely made up of dancers who use teaching as a means of support and well meaning amateurs who view the exhibition dance as the pièce de résistance. Usually they dance well but lack the ability to communicate, or worse have no desire to improve their teaching methods, and retain students through strength of personality alone.

Ageless tango

LimerickTango — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:03:52 +0000

One of the nice aspects of tango and tango events is that it can be enjoyed by anyone regardless of age. I’ve been at events where I’ve danced with a legend of tango¹ and where fathers dance with their young daughters balanced on top of their feet. But that is the cauldron of tango where we are all set to rise and fall in our turn.

In contrast I was at a suburban party at the weekend that made me feel my age. An enjoyable party but with a far narrower age range, I don’t think it helped that I spotted someone plugging in a baby monitor, and shockingly suburban. Either way I felt the cold chill of the eternal footman at the door once or twice.

All this will pass but there will always be seat next to the dancefloor.

¹ Admittedly it did feel like dancing with my mother.

Unusual comments at milongas

LimerickTango — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:43:20 +0000

“Your bunny ears are interfering with my devils horns.”

But then again it was a fancy dress milonga.