Category Archives: This fine social scene

I have written before about Dr. Temple Grandin in relation to the embrace. The other connection I make between Dr. Grandin and tango is with regard to venue selection and layout. Dr. Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities … Continue reading →

Sunday morning radio is great. A strange mix of farming reports, international stories, what the papers say and discussions about nothing in particular. The discussion that drew my attention was one about the laws of attraction. At that point they … Continue reading →

Much is made of the Codigos of argentine tango and the various attempts to transplant them to tango scences outside of Buenos Aires. This is not a post about the merits of the codigos but about why it is pointless … Continue reading →

All I can say is that when I got home I polished off a bottle of scotch. (OK there was only a generous dram left in the bottle, but it’s the mood and the intention that counts.)

I have been meaning to write about this for sometime and koolricky‘s post on Beginners I like, beginners I don’t finally tickled me into tackling the subject. I have never liked the Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced nomenclature. Especially not the systems … Continue reading →

Saturday night was an annual event which once upon at time was my first full floor, lots of people dancing, tango experience. While I am not particularly worried about the milestones I pass I find them useful points to turn … Continue reading →

Friday Visit to the local … er … contemporary dance cabaret. Saturday Gave private fencing lesson. Took in the Grand National. Regretted not placing bet on local millionaires horse. Watched Munster trounce Gloucester 18-3. Not quite a repeat of the … Continue reading →

In the 1943 film Sahara, starring Humphrey Bogart, there is an interesting discussion between a British officer and a Sudanese private about how many wives a chap should have. The Sudanese private explains that with one wife she will be … Continue reading →

Comments like “Oh that’s Nuevo tango, it’s not tango”, quite frankly, I don’t like hearing. To the best of my knowledge I’ve been taught mainstream traditional argentine tango and I have a fairly live and let live attitude to styles … Continue reading →