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27-Feb-08 07:21 AM USA Central Time Message Number: 1223
Dear Tango world Wide:
Dear All: Flor from Amsterdam and I tried to go to the live concert of Orquesta Imperial at El Tasso and it was sold out...lol., so we went to Practica X Derik
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Dear All: Flor from Amsterdam and I tried to go to the live concert of Orquesta Imperial at El Tasso and it was sold out...lol., so we went to Practica X Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 25-Feb-08 08:07 AM USA Central Time Message Number: 1222
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Dear All: Practica X is now the largest milonga in Buenos Aires. There were about five hundred people there this last Tuesday when Florencia and I were dancing. Derik
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Dear All: Practica X is now the largest milonga in Buenos Aires. There were about five hundred people there this last Tuesday when Florencia and I were dancing. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 02-Feb-08 07:35 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1221
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Dear All: An Argentine girl was complaining to me the other night that the dancing here in Buenos Aires is not as good now because dancers are busy. I asked her what she meant by "busy". She said that many dancers were working for companies like TangoTaxiDancers.com, so the quality of dancing had dropped considerably for everyone. Derik
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Dear All: An Argentine girl was complaining to me the other night that the dancing here in Buenos Aires is not as good now because dancers are busy. I asked her what she meant by "busy". She said that many dancers were working for companies like TangoTaxiDancers.com, so the quality of dancing had dropped considerably for everyone. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 02-Feb-08 07:08 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1220
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Dear All: About Uruguay and tango.... Uruguay is the original and continuing creative source of tango just as much as Argentina. If one wants to dance with the locals, one needs to know them personally and respect their culture. If people want to fly down to Buenos Aires to dance tango with Argentines then respect Argentines. If people want to fly to Montevideo to dance tango with Uruguayans then respect Uruguayans. I think anyone from any nationality can teach tango as long as they respect the local cultures which gave birth to tango AND HAVE TEN YEARS OF PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE!!! What we have in most tango communities abroad is a total lack of respect for the creative sources of tango, whether it be Argentina or Uruguay and a total lack of professional teaching experience. Organizers abroad can change this situation but they choose not to do it. Instead they promote themselves as the experts, instead of the Argentine and Uruguayan professionals, and then sponsor amateur tango festivals to sell unprofessionalservices. PS- Tango tourists are not having a good tango experience down here in Buenos Aires, and it is the fault of the organizers in their home countries who have not serviced them well. Tango toutists cannot dance with the locals!!! Derik
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Dear All: About Uruguay and tango.... Uruguay is the original and continuing creative source of tango just as much as Argentina. If one wants to dance with the locals, one needs to know them personally and respect their culture. If people want to fly down to Buenos Aires to dance tango with Argentines then respect Argentines. If people want to fly to Montevideo to dance tango with Uruguayans then respect Uruguayans. I think anyone from any nationality can teach tango as long as they respect the local cultures which gave birth to tango AND HAVE TEN YEARS OF PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE!!! What we have in most tango communities abroad is a total lack of respect for the creative sources of tango, whether it be Argentina or Uruguay and a total lack of professional teaching experience. Organizers abroad can change this situation but they choose not to do it. Instead they promote themselves as the experts, instead of the Argentine and Uruguayan professionals, and then sponsor amateur tango festivals to sell unprofessionalservices. PS- Tango tourists are not having a good tango experience down here in Buenos Aires, and it is the fault of the organizers in their home countries who have not serviced them well. Tango toutists cannot dance with the locals!!! Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 30-Jan-08 08:24 AM USA Central Time Message Number: 1219
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Dear All: Dear All: I think that tango tourists should have more respect for the Argentines and their culture It is time for tango tourists to start taking regular tango lessons from real Argentine professional teachers who have at least ten years of teaching experience, instead wasting money paying for lessons from unskilled local organizers. Tango tourists need to get to know the Argentines personally, if they want to come to Buenos Aires and really dance with them at milongas. Argentines will ask tourists to dance tango if they know them. More importantly, tango tourists need to learn how to dance real Argentine tango from the creative source, the Argentines themselves. Organizers back home in other countries need to stop teaching tango and start organizing...Organizers should work at finding ways to bring in the Argentine professionals to teach tango regularly on a weekly basis if necessary, instead of making stupid excuses about travel documents etc. and then inviting all the other unskilled local organizers to so-called Tango Festivals which include few if any Argentine professional teachers (like the recent Houston Tango Festival...lol.). Bottom line.... Respect the culture if you want to dance real Argentine tango...It is that simple. Derik
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Dear All: Dear All: I think that tango tourists should have more respect for the Argentines and their culture It is time for tango tourists to start taking regular tango lessons from real Argentine professional teachers who have at least ten years of teaching experience, instead wasting money paying for lessons from unskilled local organizers. Tango tourists need to get to know the Argentines personally, if they want to come to Buenos Aires and really dance with them at milongas. Argentines will ask tourists to dance tango if they know them. More importantly, tango tourists need to learn how to dance real Argentine tango from the creative source, the Argentines themselves. Organizers back home in other countries need to stop teaching tango and start organizing...Organizers should work at finding ways to bring in the Argentine professionals to teach tango regularly on a weekly basis if necessary, instead of making stupid excuses about travel documents etc. and then inviting all the other unskilled local organizers to so-called Tango Festivals which include few if any Argentine professional teachers (like the recent Houston Tango Festival...lol.). Bottom line.... Respect the culture if you want to dance real Argentine tango...It is that simple. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 29-Jan-08 08:10 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1218
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Dear All: Trouble at Practica X tonight... The tango tourists (so called perfect dancers) are coming now and are starting to make demands on the Argentines to dance with them...lol. Two announcements were made in English (instead of the normal Spanish). First announcement was that a woman wanted to know if she had to buy a ticket to get an Argentine to dance with her...lol. Second announcement was for people to be careful not to run into each other...lol. Derik
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Dear All: Trouble at Practica X tonight... The tango tourists (so called perfect dancers) are coming now and are starting to make demands on the Argentines to dance with them...lol. Two announcements were made in English (instead of the normal Spanish). First announcement was that a woman wanted to know if she had to buy a ticket to get an Argentine to dance with her...lol. Second announcement was for people to be careful not to run into each other...lol. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 21-Jan-08 04:04 AM USA Central Time Message Number: 1217
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Dear All: Funny story... Tango tourists cannot dance with the Argentines, so tango tourists now have their own separate milongas where they dance only with each other. An Argentine friend of mine could not dance at these tourist milongas, so he took some lessons in the tourist dance. Now he can dance with the tango tourists, but the Argentine girls do not want to dance with him anymore...lol. I told him to save the toursit dance just for the tourists...lol. Derik
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Dear All: Funny story... Tango tourists cannot dance with the Argentines, so tango tourists now have their own separate milongas where they dance only with each other. An Argentine friend of mine could not dance at these tourist milongas, so he took some lessons in the tourist dance. Now he can dance with the tango tourists, but the Argentine girls do not want to dance with him anymore...lol. I told him to save the toursit dance just for the tourists...lol. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 12-Jan-08 08:38 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1216
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Dear All: The real FIRST ANNUAL Houston Tango Festival http://www.metatango.com was held in the year 2002 at the Adams Mark Hotel in Houston. After two years, Orlando Bundini moved it to Mexico where people truly understand Argentine tango, and value the Argentines as the source of its creativity....lol. Now Houston has a watered-down boring college course tango festival at Rice University...lol. Orlando is a friend of mine and I hate to see him not get the credit that he deserves for being first, because of a bunch of self centered unskilled ego maniacs who all want to teach tango, when in fact they need to be students of tango...lol. If you think that you may be bored with the upcoming Houston Tango Festival next week which includes NO ARGENTINE TANGO TEACHERS or MUSICIANS ....lol, only local intermediate dancers from Houston, Austin, Canada, Europe and the US, to teach you authentic Argentine tango and local Houston musicians to play for you....lol.... then come to Houston this Sunday a few days early early on Jan 13 to attend a real festival, the JULIAN CALENDAR NEW YEARS PARTY CELEBRATION(sometimes called Russian New Year). It has been going on a long time for many years now... and it is big. This festival will have lots of Russians and also Argentine Tango Dancers, who are in Houston because of the international oil business, so thousands will be at the huge event all dancing and singing.. Argentine Tango, gypsy swing, folk dances etc..everything.. The annual event is organized by Greg Harbar, who is also good friend of mine. All the information about the event is on his website at: http://www.oldworldmusic.com You will meet real Russians and real Argentines who both are famous for partying until the sun comes up. This usually happens at Greg´s house later...lol. Greg's orchestra is called the Gypsies. He will be playing with twenty or thirty non-local musicians who are flying in from all over the world. Greg has played in Moscow with balalaika orchestras like the Ousopov and many other famous musicians and orchestras worldwide...including The Houston Symphony. He also plays every other year in the forest in France for the Django Reinhardt Festival. (Django played at the Jazz Hot club in Paris in the 30´s and 40´s and lived at the Ritz Hotel...lol....Django's most famous song was Nuages which means Clouds.) This party will be fun...lol. The first Argentine Tango Festival in Houston was called META TANGO and it was produced by Orlando Budini who lives in Houston and BsAs. Orlando.brought in the truly great and famous Argentines dancers like Juan Carlos Copes, Guillermo Merlo and other Argentines to Houston to teach. http://www.metatango.com Derik
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Dear All: The real FIRST ANNUAL Houston Tango Festival http://www.metatango.com was held in the year 2002 at the Adams Mark Hotel in Houston. After two years, Orlando Bundini moved it to Mexico where people truly understand Argentine tango, and value the Argentines as the source of its creativity....lol. Now Houston has a watered-down boring college course tango festival at Rice University...lol. Orlando is a friend of mine and I hate to see him not get the credit that he deserves for being first, because of a bunch of self centered unskilled ego maniacs who all want to teach tango, when in fact they need to be students of tango...lol. If you think that you may be bored with the upcoming Houston Tango Festival next week which includes NO ARGENTINE TANGO TEACHERS or MUSICIANS ....lol, only local intermediate dancers from Houston, Austin, Canada, Europe and the US, to teach you authentic Argentine tango and local Houston musicians to play for you....lol.... then come to Houston this Sunday a few days early early on Jan 13 to attend a real festival, the JULIAN CALENDAR NEW YEARS PARTY CELEBRATION(sometimes called Russian New Year). It has been going on a long time for many years now... and it is big. This festival will have lots of Russians and also Argentine Tango Dancers, who are in Houston because of the international oil business, so thousands will be at the huge event all dancing and singing.. Argentine Tango, gypsy swing, folk dances etc..everything.. The annual event is organized by Greg Harbar, who is also good friend of mine. All the information about the event is on his website at: http://www.oldworldmusic.com You will meet real Russians and real Argentines who both are famous for partying until the sun comes up. This usually happens at Greg´s house later...lol. Greg's orchestra is called the Gypsies. He will be playing with twenty or thirty non-local musicians who are flying in from all over the world. Greg has played in Moscow with balalaika orchestras like the Ousopov and many other famous musicians and orchestras worldwide...including The Houston Symphony. He also plays every other year in the forest in France for the Django Reinhardt Festival. (Django played at the Jazz Hot club in Paris in the 30´s and 40´s and lived at the Ritz Hotel...lol....Django's most famous song was Nuages which means Clouds.) This party will be fun...lol. The first Argentine Tango Festival in Houston was called META TANGO and it was produced by Orlando Budini who lives in Houston and BsAs. Orlando.brought in the truly great and famous Argentines dancers like Juan Carlos Copes, Guillermo Merlo and other Argentines to Houston to teach. http://www.metatango.com Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 11-Jan-08 06:13 AM USA Central Time Message Number: 1215
Dear Tango world Wide:
Dear All: Went to Peru 571 at 7pm for a great nuevo tango lesson with Andres Amarilla and Meredith Klein who are now finally back in town for two months. Andres is atill in his thirties, BUT he was one of the actual original creators of nuevo tango in the closed investigation dance workshop which created the system. He went to work dancing professionaly for Gustavo Naviera when he was just eleven years old as a child prodigy in his dance company, so Andres has been dasncing professionally for twenty years... and is still very young. Few people in tango have his creditials or his talent. His wife, Meredith, is a beautiful dancer who studied classical piano in college, so they are both quite a team. About seven of us went over to Petanque after the lesson. We were all starving for some great food, so had ourselves a wonderful dinner. We all had a big party...lol. Pascal, the owner of the restaurant fell in love with all the girls of course. C'est normale....lol Derik
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Dear All: Went to Peru 571 at 7pm for a great nuevo tango lesson with Andres Amarilla and Meredith Klein who are now finally back in town for two months. Andres is atill in his thirties, BUT he was one of the actual original creators of nuevo tango in the closed investigation dance workshop which created the system. He went to work dancing professionaly for Gustavo Naviera when he was just eleven years old as a child prodigy in his dance company, so Andres has been dasncing professionally for twenty years... and is still very young. Few people in tango have his creditials or his talent. His wife, Meredith, is a beautiful dancer who studied classical piano in college, so they are both quite a team. About seven of us went over to Petanque after the lesson. We were all starving for some great food, so had ourselves a wonderful dinner. We all had a big party...lol. Pascal, the owner of the restaurant fell in love with all the girls of course. C'est normale....lol Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 07-Jan-08 08:48 AM USA Central Time Message Number: 1214
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Dear All: Went to La Confiteria Ideal last night on Sunday to see the organizers of the milonga, Carlos and Romina. Wonderful to see them again. They did a fantastic tango performance. Carlos is from San Telmo so he really knows his tango. Romina came to tango from classical ballet. She is beautiful and a great tango dancer. We all met last year on XMAS day in a little cafe in San Telmo.. and we danced all afternoon with a live orquesta tipica playing. Lots of fun. Derik
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Dear All: Went to La Confiteria Ideal last night on Sunday to see the organizers of the milonga, Carlos and Romina. Wonderful to see them again. They did a fantastic tango performance. Carlos is from San Telmo so he really knows his tango. Romina came to tango from classical ballet. She is beautiful and a great tango dancer. We all met last year on XMAS day in a little cafe in San Telmo.. and we danced all afternoon with a live orquesta tipica playing. Lots of fun. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 04-Jan-08 02:35 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1213
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Dear All: Everyone going to Villa Malcolm tonight. Last night at Practica X on Thursday instead of Tuesday for the Holidays was fantastic. The night before on Wedensday Maldita Milonga with the live msuic of Orquesta El Afronte was wonderful. Danced with Yamila. Great time. Derik
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Dear All: Everyone going to Villa Malcolm tonight. Last night at Practica X on Thursday instead of Tuesday for the Holidays was fantastic. The night before on Wedensday Maldita Milonga with the live msuic of Orquesta El Afronte was wonderful. Danced with Yamila. Great time. Derik
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Dear All: Great New Year´s dinner at Florencia´s. Even got pan dulce to take home.lol. Derik
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Dear All: Great New Year´s dinner at Florencia´s. Even got pan dulce to take home.lol. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 03-Dec-07 06:10 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1211
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Dear All: Florencia finally made it to dance tango last night on Sunday at Dorrego Plaza in San Telmo. Wow! What a lot of fun!! Was great to dance with her again. The evening was a really beautiful, a typical summer night and everyone was there...lol. Sebastian, who plays the violin in Oquestra Tipica Fervor de Buenos Aires came by and Russell, from New Mexico, brought a big bottle of Quillmes Beer in a plastic bag...lol. Russel and I strarted to drink straight from the bottle, of course, just like cowboys do in Texas and New Mexico. No fancy glasses were necesary...lol. Florencia and her mom, Carmen, were laughing at the two of us, and Sebastian did not know what to think...lol. Indio put on a great show. He got Gina to sing wonderful tangos with her trio and we all danced tango of course. Gina is the woman who Florencia got me to dance with a few months ago at the NO NAME BAR which has no door...lol..only a wall that opens up if you know the secret word. Gina was on stage in the little club singing and asked if anyone wanted to dance, so we danced...lol. She is a great dancer. Also Mirabai was there and Russell and I both kept her and Florencia very busy dancing...lol. Russell and Mirabai also did a really great Salsa routine...wow!...lol. Fantastic. Anyway, another great evening in Buenos Aires. Life is good. Derik
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Dear All: Florencia finally made it to dance tango last night on Sunday at Dorrego Plaza in San Telmo. Wow! What a lot of fun!! Was great to dance with her again. The evening was a really beautiful, a typical summer night and everyone was there...lol. Sebastian, who plays the violin in Oquestra Tipica Fervor de Buenos Aires came by and Russell, from New Mexico, brought a big bottle of Quillmes Beer in a plastic bag...lol. Russel and I strarted to drink straight from the bottle, of course, just like cowboys do in Texas and New Mexico. No fancy glasses were necesary...lol. Florencia and her mom, Carmen, were laughing at the two of us, and Sebastian did not know what to think...lol. Indio put on a great show. He got Gina to sing wonderful tangos with her trio and we all danced tango of course. Gina is the woman who Florencia got me to dance with a few months ago at the NO NAME BAR which has no door...lol..only a wall that opens up if you know the secret word. Gina was on stage in the little club singing and asked if anyone wanted to dance, so we danced...lol. She is a great dancer. Also Mirabai was there and Russell and I both kept her and Florencia very busy dancing...lol. Russell and Mirabai also did a really great Salsa routine...wow!...lol. Fantastic. Anyway, another great evening in Buenos Aires. Life is good. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 03-Dec-07 05:42 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1210
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Dear All: I went to Italia Unita last night on Saturday and danced to the live music of Ochestra Color Tango. Florencia was at a family get together, so she could not come, but said that she would be at Dorrego Plaza the next day. Anyway, Dr. Roberto Alsina met me and we both had an entire table full of beautiful girls from New Zealand, Canada, Hannah and Jill, and others who are friends of mine and joined us, so we had a fun time. Also Roberto and I danced with a Russian girl at the table next to us and a Polish girl, Olivia. They were both great dancers and fun. Olivia was sitting with Russell who is from New Nexico. Ironically, I also danced with another really beautiful, Aurelia, who is also from New Mexico, but I do not think Russell knows her...lol. Anyway life is good. Derik
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Dear All: I went to Italia Unita last night on Saturday and danced to the live music of Ochestra Color Tango. Florencia was at a family get together, so she could not come, but said that she would be at Dorrego Plaza the next day. Anyway, Dr. Roberto Alsina met me and we both had an entire table full of beautiful girls from New Zealand, Canada, Hannah and Jill, and others who are friends of mine and joined us, so we had a fun time. Also Roberto and I danced with a Russian girl at the table next to us and a Polish girl, Olivia. They were both great dancers and fun. Olivia was sitting with Russell who is from New Nexico. Ironically, I also danced with another really beautiful, Aurelia, who is also from New Mexico, but I do not think Russell knows her...lol. Anyway life is good. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 30-Nov-07 08:18 AM USA Central Time Message Number: 1209
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Dear All: I went to El Caff last Saturday night with Florencia to hear a tango orchestra, and I met her good friend, Sebantian, a Russian-Argentine guy from her high school days, who is now a violinist in Oquestra Tipica Fervor de Buenos Aires which plays in Boca at Club Verde at Brown Avenue 734 on Wednesday nights. The club is just across the street from the Soccer Stadium. I went to the milonga last night and it was great. Florencia had to study for exams, so she could not make it this Wednesday, but I got to dance with drop dead gorgeous Camilla, who was wearing a red dress...lol. Great evening. Derik
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Dear All: I went to El Caff last Saturday night with Florencia to hear a tango orchestra, and I met her good friend, Sebantian, a Russian-Argentine guy from her high school days, who is now a violinist in Oquestra Tipica Fervor de Buenos Aires which plays in Boca at Club Verde at Brown Avenue 734 on Wednesday nights. The club is just across the street from the Soccer Stadium. I went to the milonga last night and it was great. Florencia had to study for exams, so she could not make it this Wednesday, but I got to dance with drop dead gorgeous Camilla, who was wearing a red dress...lol. Great evening. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 27-Nov-07 07:56 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1208
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Dear All: Well the Queer Tango Festival is coming to Buenos Aires and I think that is great. Gay people are wonderful. I think it will be a big success. A lot of people are gay and that is OK. The web site is at: Queer Tango Festival It is this week from Monday November 26th to Sunday December 2nd. The only gay people I do not like are the dishonest gay women tango teachers mostly from the USA, Europe and Argentina who are teaching endless and useless tango lessons at up to one hundred dollars an hour to tango tourists. These teachers are tricking foreign women (who do not know any better) into believing that women dance with women all the time in Buenos Aires. The latter is just not true. The only time that women dance with women here in Bueons Aires a lot is during tourist season in November and December. This is when all the USA and European gay tango teacher tourists show up, like now...lol. For women who are already having trouble with men, dancing with women is a big waste of time and money ....lol. Many foreign women never really get to meet men here in Buenos Aires at the milongas because they are often too tired from taking all the stupid tango lessons with women teachers...lol. What women, who are attracted to men, need to do is resolve their problems with men by dancing with and communicating with men, not with women. If a woman finds that she cannot attract a man to dance with her, then she needs to get her act together. One solution for women to attract men is to get rid of the frumpy clothes. Last Friday I danced with a beautiful Argentine woman who was dressed very elegantly. She had zero problems attracting men. Age is not important, but style is very important!!! My best wishes to all the gay people who are coming here to Buenos Aires to dance tango. Honesty and openess is always the best policy no matter what. Life is good. You will have a great time. Derik
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Dear All: Well the Queer Tango Festival is coming to Buenos Aires and I think that is great. Gay people are wonderful. I think it will be a big success. A lot of people are gay and that is OK. The web site is at: Queer Tango Festival It is this week from Monday November 26th to Sunday December 2nd. The only gay people I do not like are the dishonest gay women tango teachers mostly from the USA, Europe and Argentina who are teaching endless and useless tango lessons at up to one hundred dollars an hour to tango tourists. These teachers are tricking foreign women (who do not know any better) into believing that women dance with women all the time in Buenos Aires. The latter is just not true. The only time that women dance with women here in Bueons Aires a lot is during tourist season in November and December. This is when all the USA and European gay tango teacher tourists show up, like now...lol. For women who are already having trouble with men, dancing with women is a big waste of time and money ....lol. Many foreign women never really get to meet men here in Buenos Aires at the milongas because they are often too tired from taking all the stupid tango lessons with women teachers...lol. What women, who are attracted to men, need to do is resolve their problems with men by dancing with and communicating with men, not with women. If a woman finds that she cannot attract a man to dance with her, then she needs to get her act together. One solution for women to attract men is to get rid of the frumpy clothes. Last Friday I danced with a beautiful Argentine woman who was dressed very elegantly. She had zero problems attracting men. Age is not important, but style is very important!!! My best wishes to all the gay people who are coming here to Buenos Aires to dance tango. Honesty and openess is always the best policy no matter what. Life is good. You will have a great time. Derik
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Dear All: Went to Mirabai´s birthday party Tuesday night in San Telmo. What a great time. We all danced our tails off. Picture below. Derik
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Dear All: Went to Mirabai´s birthday party Tuesday night in San Telmo. What a great time. We all danced our tails off. Picture below. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 18-Nov-07 06:37 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1206
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Dear All: Wow! I just went to a wonderful barbecue Saturday night on the rooftop of Andres and Meredith´s new apartment Mark Hussner, who I introduced to Andres and Meredtih a few months ago, has been living there for the last four months. He has been remodeling the place for them while they are on tour dancing in the US. andresamarilla.com Mark did the barbecue to test out the barbecue pit on the rooftop and it worked great! We sat outside under the stars on a balmy night and had an Argentine steak dinner and Sangria of course. Mark is a great chef as well as a great re-modeler...lol. The food was fantastic. Andres and Meredith´s new apartment is in a beautiful old building. It is four stories high. The apartment has a narrow spiral staircase which goes directly up from the street to the third floor and then another hidden spiral staircase which takes you up to a huge rooftop which overlooks Buenos Aires. The third floor has a dance studio space with wood floors two huge walk through windows and a balcony overlooking the street down below. Wow! What a beautiful place!!! Anyway, Andres and Meredith will probably teach tango lessons in the new apartment in the next week or so. All their friends and students in BsAS will get a chance to see it for themselves. I think that they are both going to be happy with what Mark has done to the place. He is going to take a well deserved vacation to the beach with a girlfriend when they move back in....and he deserves it...lol. Life is good. Andres and Meredith.... We are all here in Buenos Aires waiting for your return...lol. See you soon. Derik
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Dear All: Wow! I just went to a wonderful barbecue Saturday night on the rooftop of Andres and Meredith´s new apartment Mark Hussner, who I introduced to Andres and Meredtih a few months ago, has been living there for the last four months. He has been remodeling the place for them while they are on tour dancing in the US. andresamarilla.com Mark did the barbecue to test out the barbecue pit on the rooftop and it worked great! We sat outside under the stars on a balmy night and had an Argentine steak dinner and Sangria of course. Mark is a great chef as well as a great re-modeler...lol. The food was fantastic. Andres and Meredith´s new apartment is in a beautiful old building. It is four stories high. The apartment has a narrow spiral staircase which goes directly up from the street to the third floor and then another hidden spiral staircase which takes you up to a huge rooftop which overlooks Buenos Aires. The third floor has a dance studio space with wood floors two huge walk through windows and a balcony overlooking the street down below. Wow! What a beautiful place!!! Anyway, Andres and Meredith will probably teach tango lessons in the new apartment in the next week or so. All their friends and students in BsAS will get a chance to see it for themselves. I think that they are both going to be happy with what Mark has done to the place. He is going to take a well deserved vacation to the beach with a girlfriend when they move back in....and he deserves it...lol. Life is good. Andres and Meredith.... We are all here in Buenos Aires waiting for your return...lol. See you soon. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 13-Nov-07 06:36 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1205
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Dear All: Below is a picture of Mark, Anit, Jazmine and I at Desnile Restaurant on Defensa Street in San Telmo. Jazmine had to fly back to California last week due to a health emergency in her family, so we were all having a good-bye dinner together, before she left town. We are all very sad that she had to leave so unexpectedly. Mark, who is a friend of mine from Sweden and Portugal, has been staying in Andres Amarilla and Meredtih Klein´s apartment for the past 4 months, helping them to remodel the place while they are on tour in the US. Anit, who is staying with Mark is from New York. Jazmine and Anit are also good friends from working at the Spanish school together....so we all got together for dinner to say goodbye to Jazmine. Jazmine´s Argentine girl friends, who shot her Jazmine Sings the Blues video on You Tube were with us too, but I do not have a picture of them of course...lol. Anyway, now all of us are missing Jazmine, and are hoping that she will be back in Buenos Aires very soon. Never a dull moment here....lol. Derik
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Dear All: Below is a picture of Mark, Anit, Jazmine and I at Desnile Restaurant on Defensa Street in San Telmo. Jazmine had to fly back to California last week due to a health emergency in her family, so we were all having a good-bye dinner together, before she left town. We are all very sad that she had to leave so unexpectedly. Mark, who is a friend of mine from Sweden and Portugal, has been staying in Andres Amarilla and Meredtih Klein´s apartment for the past 4 months, helping them to remodel the place while they are on tour in the US. Anit, who is staying with Mark is from New York. Jazmine and Anit are also good friends from working at the Spanish school together....so we all got together for dinner to say goodbye to Jazmine. Jazmine´s Argentine girl friends, who shot her Jazmine Sings the Blues video on You Tube were with us too, but I do not have a picture of them of course...lol. Anyway, now all of us are missing Jazmine, and are hoping that she will be back in Buenos Aires very soon. Never a dull moment here....lol. Derik
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Dear All: Jazmine and I danced in the street all day Sunday. We had lunch at Petanque French Restaurant. She had rabbit and I had salade gourmande. We both had creme brulet...hmmm. Jazmine has lived in Paris before like me, so she and I really enjoyed this special food. Pascal, the owner, fell in love with Jazmine of course. C'est normale...lol. Afterward, we danced tango in the street and Jazmine sang "Why not take all of me" with the musicians of Orquesta Tipica Imperial. The singer with the orchestra also sang a duet with her. He really liked her. The crowds standing in the street listening to the orchestra also loved the impromtu jazz. Nick Fontana who plays the bandondeon also loves to play jazz, so he was really happy. Jazmine and I spent all afternoon walking around the streets of San Telmo. When we heard tango music that we liked we danced...lol. We even danced nuevo tango inside a clothing store which had great music playing....lol Finally we had cafe cortado in the beautiful little Russian Church on Brazil street. It was open to the public and we listened to a concert given by the choir. What a wonderful time on a nice sunny day in the Spring. Life is good. Cell phone picture below of Jazmine shopping...lol. PS- You can see a video on Youtube of Jazmine singing a blues song she wrote herself at: Jazmine Sings the Blues. The guy in the audience in the front row making all the noise is me...lol. Her Argentine girlfriends made the video and you can hear them laughing and talking as well. Jazmine is a great. Derik
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Dear All: Jazmine and I danced in the street all day Sunday. We had lunch at Petanque French Restaurant. She had rabbit and I had salade gourmande. We both had creme brulet...hmmm. Jazmine has lived in Paris before like me, so she and I really enjoyed this special food. Pascal, the owner, fell in love with Jazmine of course. C'est normale...lol. Afterward, we danced tango in the street and Jazmine sang "Why not take all of me" with the musicians of Orquesta Tipica Imperial. The singer with the orchestra also sang a duet with her. He really liked her. The crowds standing in the street listening to the orchestra also loved the impromtu jazz. Nick Fontana who plays the bandondeon also loves to play jazz, so he was really happy. Jazmine and I spent all afternoon walking around the streets of San Telmo. When we heard tango music that we liked we danced...lol. We even danced nuevo tango inside a clothing store which had great music playing....lol Finally we had cafe cortado in the beautiful little Russian Church on Brazil street. It was open to the public and we listened to a concert given by the choir. What a wonderful time on a nice sunny day in the Spring. Life is good. Cell phone picture below of Jazmine shopping...lol. PS- You can see a video on Youtube of Jazmine singing a blues song she wrote herself at: Jazmine Sings the Blues. The guy in the audience in the front row making all the noise is me...lol. Her Argentine girlfriends made the video and you can hear them laughing and talking as well. Jazmine is a great. Derik
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Dear All: Went to Italia Unita again Saturday night with two girls and a guy from London, Jess, Joey and Tom. Tom and I danced tango with Jess and Joey to the live music of the Color Tango Orchestra.... back in Buenos Aires from its tour of the US. I also danced tango with Analeah, the red head pianist, after the performance was over. She remembered me from Dallas two years ago. She came by the table. She was great fun. Derik
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Dear All: Went to Italia Unita again Saturday night with two girls and a guy from London, Jess, Joey and Tom. Tom and I danced tango with Jess and Joey to the live music of the Color Tango Orchestra.... back in Buenos Aires from its tour of the US. I also danced tango with Analeah, the red head pianist, after the performance was over. She remembered me from Dallas two years ago. She came by the table. She was great fun. Derik
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Dear All: Florencia and I went to Villa Malcolm and well guess what? Mirabai performed at Villa Malcolm and she was fantastic. Cell phone picture below. Derik
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Dear All: Florencia and I went to Villa Malcolm and well guess what? Mirabai performed at Villa Malcolm and she was fantastic. Cell phone picture below. Derik
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Dear All: Wow! Practica X was fantastic again last night on Tuesday...about 300 people and a really great performance show by two professional dancers. I danced with Mirabai, who is a fantastic dancer of course, and a lot of fun. We had a great time. Also I danced with her friend from Berlin, Anna, who is a great dancer as well. I also met two great girls from Norway, Sig and Frida, and they both were great dancers too. And I danced with Solange from Buenos Aires who is a great dancer too. What a evening. PS - Also saw Kim Kotilla from Minneapolis, Minn. but she had to leave early after taking too many tango lessons.....six hours of tango lessons in one day... that afternoon. Kim is coming to Villa Malcolm this Friday so we will get a chance to dance then, when she is recovered...lol. Derik
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Dear All: Wow! Practica X was fantastic again last night on Tuesday...about 300 people and a really great performance show by two professional dancers. I danced with Mirabai, who is a fantastic dancer of course, and a lot of fun. We had a great time. Also I danced with her friend from Berlin, Anna, who is a great dancer as well. I also met two great girls from Norway, Sig and Frida, and they both were great dancers too. And I danced with Solange from Buenos Aires who is a great dancer too. What a evening. PS - Also saw Kim Kotilla from Minneapolis, Minn. but she had to leave early after taking too many tango lessons.....six hours of tango lessons in one day... that afternoon. Kim is coming to Villa Malcolm this Friday so we will get a chance to dance then, when she is recovered...lol. Derik
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Dear All: Just had dinner with Mirabai in San Telmo and found out that Narco Tango Orchestra is playing live music at La Viruta tonight Thursday October 25th about 11pm to 12m. Should be fantastic. Will be there of course...lol. Life is good. Derik
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Dear All: Just had dinner with Mirabai in San Telmo and found out that Narco Tango Orchestra is playing live music at La Viruta tonight Thursday October 25th about 11pm to 12m. Should be fantastic. Will be there of course...lol. Life is good. Derik
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Dear All: Saw my good friend, Dr. Roberto Alsina from Houston,Texas and Buenos Aires last Saturday at the ITALI UNITA MILONGA. The milonga is in a beautiful old Opera house built in 1878. Roberto came with his friend from Brazil-Argentina and his daughter Katrina. I was lucky enough to be able to dance with both girls before in Houston at SALENTO, so of course we danced again here in Argentina...lol. They are both great dancers. All of them are here now living in Ricoletta for the next four months, so we will be able to visit many milongas together. We danced to the very famous live orchestra tipica ERNESTO FRANCO from 12:00 AM to 5:00 AM. What a great time. I also danced with Mira Bai, a beautiful smart girl, with strawberry blonde hair, from San Francisco, whose parents both went to my university, the University of California at Berkeley. She originally came to BsAs while she working for GOOGLE, but now has stayed on in Buenos Aires to dance tango here with the Argentines professionally. I asked her why she was sitting by herself in the corner, and she said, "We have to sit over there". I said, "Why?" She said, "Because we are doing dance show tonight." I said, "Oh yes. Of course...lol". Needless to say, Mira Bai is a great dancer. We danced a lot that evening. Mira Bai and I first met at Dorrego Plaza where she was performing with Leonardo while Indio, who runs the milonga, was out of town on tour in Europe. Indio is back now, so this was the first time we met again since that time. When I came back over to Roberto´s table, he asked me who she was and before I could explain, the tango show with just Mira Bai and her partner began.....and oh my God...lol the dancing was just incredible. Mira Bai follows her partner perfectly BUT she dances many extra steps to the music inside the very fast steps of the Argentine professional dancers and it just blows their minds....lol. Her partner was also one of the best dancers I have seen here and he was having trouble keeping up with her....but he just loved dancing with her...you could tell....lol. The electricity was absolutely high voltage, and they were doing everything, lifts, guanchos, cologates, volcados, spins, you name it...lol. What a show!! We were all just breathless watching it. To me this is what tango should be..really exciting!!! Anyway, what a wonderful time Saturday evening.,, I am looking forward to seeing more of Roberto, his friend and daugther, Katrina. (By the way, Mira Bai´s dance partner in the tango show, danced all night with Katrina while I was dancing with Mira Bai...so Katrina had a great time.) I am also looking forward to seeing Mira Bai again soon. We are going to meet for coffee or lunch and of course dance. Life is good. Derik
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Dear All: Saw my good friend, Dr. Roberto Alsina from Houston,Texas and Buenos Aires last Saturday at the ITALI UNITA MILONGA. The milonga is in a beautiful old Opera house built in 1878. Roberto came with his friend from Brazil-Argentina and his daughter Katrina. I was lucky enough to be able to dance with both girls before in Houston at SALENTO, so of course we danced again here in Argentina...lol. They are both great dancers. All of them are here now living in Ricoletta for the next four months, so we will be able to visit many milongas together. We danced to the very famous live orchestra tipica ERNESTO FRANCO from 12:00 AM to 5:00 AM. What a great time. I also danced with Mira Bai, a beautiful smart girl, with strawberry blonde hair, from San Francisco, whose parents both went to my university, the University of California at Berkeley. She originally came to BsAs while she working for GOOGLE, but now has stayed on in Buenos Aires to dance tango here with the Argentines professionally. I asked her why she was sitting by herself in the corner, and she said, "We have to sit over there". I said, "Why?" She said, "Because we are doing dance show tonight." I said, "Oh yes. Of course...lol". Needless to say, Mira Bai is a great dancer. We danced a lot that evening. Mira Bai and I first met at Dorrego Plaza where she was performing with Leonardo while Indio, who runs the milonga, was out of town on tour in Europe. Indio is back now, so this was the first time we met again since that time. When I came back over to Roberto´s table, he asked me who she was and before I could explain, the tango show with just Mira Bai and her partner began.....and oh my God...lol the dancing was just incredible. Mira Bai follows her partner perfectly BUT she dances many extra steps to the music inside the very fast steps of the Argentine professional dancers and it just blows their minds....lol. Her partner was also one of the best dancers I have seen here and he was having trouble keeping up with her....but he just loved dancing with her...you could tell....lol. The electricity was absolutely high voltage, and they were doing everything, lifts, guanchos, cologates, volcados, spins, you name it...lol. What a show!! We were all just breathless watching it. To me this is what tango should be..really exciting!!! Anyway, what a wonderful time Saturday evening.,, I am looking forward to seeing more of Roberto, his friend and daugther, Katrina. (By the way, Mira Bai´s dance partner in the tango show, danced all night with Katrina while I was dancing with Mira Bai...so Katrina had a great time.) I am also looking forward to seeing Mira Bai again soon. We are going to meet for coffee or lunch and of course dance. Life is good. Derik
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Dear All: Prefers diSarli and complete control of the woman in a close embrace... I met an interesting thirty something Argentine guy last night at Villa Malcolm while waiting for Florencia. He was in Buenos Aires visiting from the provences. He said that he liked to dance tango to Di Sarli´s music ONLY!!, because he wanted to completely control the woman in A CLOSE EMBRACE ONLY!! He preferred tango music which was totally predictable and regular, with no surprises. I said, "Well, what are you doing here at Villa Malcolm, a nuevo tango place?" He said, "Well, Villa Malcolm is where all the most beautiful women in buenos Aires dance tango". I said, "Maybe the most beautiful women in Buenos Aires do not want to be totally controlled"...lol. He thought about that a minute, and then Florencia showed up. He said that he did not want to ask her to dance, because she was too independent...lol. Life is interesting....lol. PS - This same guy also said that hated Canning and the other close embrace places in Buenoes Aires because the women at these places were not very interesting. I told him that the women at these places were just like him. They also liked di Sarli´s music and wanted to completely control the woman in a close embrace, because a lot of them like women...lol. He agreed. PPS- Actually he was a very nice guy, and I think that he will be thinking more about why women do not want to be controlled. Derik
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Dear All: Prefers diSarli and complete control of the woman in a close embrace... I met an interesting thirty something Argentine guy last night at Villa Malcolm while waiting for Florencia. He was in Buenos Aires visiting from the provences. He said that he liked to dance tango to Di Sarli´s music ONLY!!, because he wanted to completely control the woman in A CLOSE EMBRACE ONLY!! He preferred tango music which was totally predictable and regular, with no surprises. I said, "Well, what are you doing here at Villa Malcolm, a nuevo tango place?" He said, "Well, Villa Malcolm is where all the most beautiful women in buenos Aires dance tango". I said, "Maybe the most beautiful women in Buenos Aires do not want to be totally controlled"...lol. He thought about that a minute, and then Florencia showed up. He said that he did not want to ask her to dance, because she was too independent...lol. Life is interesting....lol. PS - This same guy also said that hated Canning and the other close embrace places in Buenoes Aires because the women at these places were not very interesting. I told him that the women at these places were just like him. They also liked di Sarli´s music and wanted to completely control the woman in a close embrace, because a lot of them like women...lol. He agreed. PPS- Actually he was a very nice guy, and I think that he will be thinking more about why women do not want to be controlled. Derik
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Dear All: Went to a live performance by Tanghetto in downtown Buenos Aires at the Atheno Theater. The dancing was fantastic... nuevo tango.. by about 20 professional dancersm but the music from their new CD was OK but not great. Best music was still from the original CDs. I think Hollywood has packaged them and screwed up their deal...lol. The creativity is gone. Derik
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Dear All: Went to a live performance by Tanghetto in downtown Buenos Aires at the Atheno Theater. The dancing was fantastic... nuevo tango.. by about 20 professional dancersm but the music from their new CD was OK but not great. Best music was still from the original CDs. I think Hollywood has packaged them and screwed up their deal...lol. The creativity is gone. Derik
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Dear All: Wow! Almost four hundred people at Practica X last night. The place was packed full, but no one had any trouble doing all the different embraces, the gaunchos...etc., because they all knew how to dance. They could navigate the floor going in any direction. At a moments notice they could change their steps to fit the available space. At Practicc X everyone dances. There were no teachers guiding the practica or telling anyone what to do. There also were no fence posts to deal with stuck on the dance floor...lol. Dancers darted in and out of spaces going all different directions. Practica X is wild, active, and fun. Choreography is created on the fly, as dancers experiment with new and different steps. Open practicas are now the big deal here in Buneos Aires. No teachers, no traffic cops. Everyone is just having maximum fun...lol. Florencia said it was amazing that people were so creative. Cell phone picture below of everyone sitting on the floor during the performance. Derik
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Dear All: Wow! Almost four hundred people at Practica X last night. The place was packed full, but no one had any trouble doing all the different embraces, the gaunchos...etc., because they all knew how to dance. They could navigate the floor going in any direction. At a moments notice they could change their steps to fit the available space. At Practicc X everyone dances. There were no teachers guiding the practica or telling anyone what to do. There also were no fence posts to deal with stuck on the dance floor...lol. Dancers darted in and out of spaces going all different directions. Practica X is wild, active, and fun. Choreography is created on the fly, as dancers experiment with new and different steps. Open practicas are now the big deal here in Buneos Aires. No teachers, no traffic cops. Everyone is just having maximum fun...lol. Florencia said it was amazing that people were so creative. Cell phone picture below of everyone sitting on the floor during the performance. Derik
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Dear All: Color Tango Orchestra is going on tour to the USA soon to all the important tango cities... Florencia and I danced from midnight to 5am this last Saturday at Italia Unita to the live music of the COLOR TANGO ORCHESTRA. Wow! What an experience. We danced every single dance and had a great time. PS - Color Tango will be in Dallas, and most major cities, but not in Houston of course....lol. Do not miss this orchestra. It is the best in the world. At milongas here in Buenos Aires, the music of Color Tango is played almost all the time and one can see the dancers on the dance floor suddenly transform themselves into magical people. In tango, great music is great dancing....and the very best dancing is to the music of Color Tango. Derik
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Dear All: Color Tango Orchestra is going on tour to the USA soon to all the important tango cities... Florencia and I danced from midnight to 5am this last Saturday at Italia Unita to the live music of the COLOR TANGO ORCHESTRA. Wow! What an experience. We danced every single dance and had a great time. PS - Color Tango will be in Dallas, and most major cities, but not in Houston of course....lol. Do not miss this orchestra. It is the best in the world. At milongas here in Buenos Aires, the music of Color Tango is played almost all the time and one can see the dancers on the dance floor suddenly transform themselves into magical people. In tango, great music is great dancing....and the very best dancing is to the music of Color Tango. Derik
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Dear All: Definition of Salon Tango: Salon is anything danced socially, period. It has zero to do with how one dances tango. It can include open embrace, close embrace, side by side embrace, whatever. There are no rules for salon except to navigate the floor well. Professionals here in Buenos Aires dance exactly the same in salon as they do on stage. They dance circles around all the tango-teacher-tourist "fence posts"...lol even on a crowded floor, and professionals do gaunchos and everything else whenever there is an available space to make a move. Professionals are always looking for places to really dance... like Villa Malcolm and Practica X.... where the dancers are all expert navigators and the fence posts are gone. This is the reality here in Buenos Aires. Tango is tango. One can dance to everything or one cannot. Salon equals stage for great dancers. Here one is considered a qualified professional with a minimum of ten years of tango dancing experience and the ability to speak Argentine-Spanish fluently. Professionals do not have to be Argentines, but they must have real on-the-ground experience in the culture. Forget all this Salon Category stuff. If your tango teacher does not meet the above minimum requirements for a professional then find another one. My opinion. Derik
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Dear All: Definition of Salon Tango: Salon is anything danced socially, period. It has zero to do with how one dances tango. It can include open embrace, close embrace, side by side embrace, whatever. There are no rules for salon except to navigate the floor well. Professionals here in Buenos Aires dance exactly the same in salon as they do on stage. They dance circles around all the tango-teacher-tourist "fence posts"...lol even on a crowded floor, and professionals do gaunchos and everything else whenever there is an available space to make a move. Professionals are always looking for places to really dance... like Villa Malcolm and Practica X.... where the dancers are all expert navigators and the fence posts are gone. This is the reality here in Buenos Aires. Tango is tango. One can dance to everything or one cannot. Salon equals stage for great dancers. Here one is considered a qualified professional with a minimum of ten years of tango dancing experience and the ability to speak Argentine-Spanish fluently. Professionals do not have to be Argentines, but they must have real on-the-ground experience in the culture. Forget all this Salon Category stuff. If your tango teacher does not meet the above minimum requirements for a professional then find another one. My opinion. Derik
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Dear Tango world Wide: Dear All: Rigged tango competition at La Rural for amateur-teacher-tango-tourists..lol. A good friend of mine just asked me this question about the Tango Competition here in Buenos Aires at La Rural...(Derik - Was there a big difference between the stage and salon categories?) I can answer the question this way...the so-called SALON CATEGORY really is for BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE AMATEURS (a group which is mostly made-up of tango-teacher-tourists, who visit BsAs for a few weeks and then immediately begin to teach PAID tango lessons in their home countries as big tango experts....lol). The so-called STAGE CATEGORY really is for ADVANCED DANCER PROFESSIONALS. True professionals, unlike amteur teachers, can dance tango to any tango music that comes along, Piazzolla, Tanghetto, GoTan whatever....lol. Here in Buenos Aires...tango is tango. One can either dance to everything or one cannot. The categories are JUST created for the amateur tango-teacher-tourists to make them feel good about themselves....lol....and also so they do not have to compete directly with the really great tango dancers here in Buenos Aires, most of whom who have been dancing since they were 6 years old. The reality is that the great dancers would never ever say that any music is undanceable...lol. This statement comes only from amateur tango dancers who are limited in their dancing skills and want to avoid music they cannot handle. I, myself am just a beginner level tango dancer, even though I have been dancing for many years. I would never presume to teach Argentine tango as a professionally paid teacher with my limited dancing skills. I do show my friends some steps to get them interested, but I always give them a list of "real" tango teachers with truly professional experience who can show them how to genuinely dance tango. What we need in this tango world is great organizers, to bring truely professional tango teachers to tango dancers around the world, not a bunch organizers who try to become amateur tango-tourist teachers with fake awards from dance competitions and lists of professional teachers who have taught them one or two lessons...lol. My opinion. Derik
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Dear Tango world Wide: Dear All: Rigged tango competition at La Rural for amateur-teacher-tango-tourists..lol. A good friend of mine just asked me this question about the Tango Competition here in Buenos Aires at La Rural...(Derik - Was there a big difference between the stage and salon categories?) I can answer the question this way...the so-called SALON CATEGORY really is for BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE AMATEURS (a group which is mostly made-up of tango-teacher-tourists, who visit BsAs for a few weeks and then immediately begin to teach PAID tango lessons in their home countries as big tango experts....lol). The so-called STAGE CATEGORY really is for ADVANCED DANCER PROFESSIONALS. True professionals, unlike amteur teachers, can dance tango to any tango music that comes along, Piazzolla, Tanghetto, GoTan whatever....lol. Here in Buenos Aires...tango is tango. One can either dance to everything or one cannot. The categories are JUST created for the amateur tango-teacher-tourists to make them feel good about themselves....lol....and also so they do not have to compete directly with the really great tango dancers here in Buenos Aires, most of whom who have been dancing since they were 6 years old. The reality is that the great dancers would never ever say that any music is undanceable...lol. This statement comes only from amateur tango dancers who are limited in their dancing skills and want to avoid music they cannot handle. I, myself am just a beginner level tango dancer, even though I have been dancing for many years. I would never presume to teach Argentine tango as a professionally paid teacher with my limited dancing skills. I do show my friends some steps to get them interested, but I always give them a list of "real" tango teachers with truly professional experience who can show them how to genuinely dance tango. What we need in this tango world is great organizers, to bring truely professional tango teachers to tango dancers around the world, not a bunch organizers who try to become amateur tango-tourist teachers with fake awards from dance competitions and lists of professional teachers who have taught them one or two lessons...lol. My opinion. Derik
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Dear All: Tango Competition this week at La Rural Exhibition Center in Palermo for tango teacher-tourists from around the world to compete with each other....lol.!!! Since the most advanced dancers in the USA, Europe and Asia are, at best, only intermediate dancers in Buenos Aires, I wonder how interesting this event will be. The last time I was at La Rural dancing tango at the Tango Festival, only 10 percent of the dancers at the milonga could dance to everything. When Sexteto Mayor played Piazzolla, the dance floor suddenly cleared, leaving only the really great dancers to dance. The tango-teacher tourists are all here now, hiding their limited dancing abilities on over-crowded dance floors, which they love....lol. Now the good dancing is really hard to find and is mostly 3am to 5am after the tourists have gone to bed. Never dull.. Derik
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Dear All: Tango Competition this week at La Rural Exhibition Center in Palermo for tango teacher-tourists from around the world to compete with each other....lol.!!! Since the most advanced dancers in the USA, Europe and Asia are, at best, only intermediate dancers in Buenos Aires, I wonder how interesting this event will be. The last time I was at La Rural dancing tango at the Tango Festival, only 10 percent of the dancers at the milonga could dance to everything. When Sexteto Mayor played Piazzolla, the dance floor suddenly cleared, leaving only the really great dancers to dance. The tango-teacher tourists are all here now, hiding their limited dancing abilities on over-crowded dance floors, which they love....lol. Now the good dancing is really hard to find and is mostly 3am to 5am after the tourists have gone to bed. Never dull.. Derik
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Dear All: Florencia and I danced all night last night at Villa Malcolm on Wednesday and had a great time. It was as good as Friday nights. Gabby also invited us to come this coming Saturday night to a special FIESTA event he is having at Villa Malcolm after all the tango tourists finish with the Tango Mundial which is over at 10pm...lol. Should be fun. Derik
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Dear All: Florencia and I danced all night last night at Villa Malcolm on Wednesday and had a great time. It was as good as Friday nights. Gabby also invited us to come this coming Saturday night to a special FIESTA event he is having at Villa Malcolm after all the tango tourists finish with the Tango Mundial which is over at 10pm...lol. Should be fun. Derik
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Dear All: Danced with Amira again, on Saturday night, to the live music of Orquesta Tipica Imperial at Italia Unita otherwise known as La Buen Pulenta. It is an opera house built in 1878 converted to a dance hall for milongas. Orchestra Imperial was the featured attraction that night on big stage. Wonderful time. We all danced until 5am. The entire orchestra sat at our table after the show. Matilde and I danced tangos before and after. Nick and Matilde also danced La Chacateria with us at the end of the evening. Also I got to dance many times with a drop dead gorgious Argentine girl, Raquel, who was a fantastic dancer. Beautiful evening. Great fun. Derik
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Dear All: Danced with Amira again, on Saturday night, to the live music of Orquesta Tipica Imperial at Italia Unita otherwise known as La Buen Pulenta. It is an opera house built in 1878 converted to a dance hall for milongas. Orchestra Imperial was the featured attraction that night on big stage. Wonderful time. We all danced until 5am. The entire orchestra sat at our table after the show. Matilde and I danced tangos before and after. Nick and Matilde also danced La Chacateria with us at the end of the evening. Also I got to dance many times with a drop dead gorgious Argentine girl, Raquel, who was a fantastic dancer. Beautiful evening. Great fun. Derik
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Dear All: Amira, who is a tango teacher at La Viruta, got me up on stage to dance with her at Cafe Perro Andaluz last night, with Orquesta Tipica Imperial playing a great tango. She and her dance partner performed for us all, and then Nick, Matilde and Pablo (the 3 bandondeons) announced, "....and now Derik will dance with Amira". I had no choice...lol Amira is a good friend of the singer who invited her and her partner to perform. Wow! What a surprise and a great experience...lol. PS -Practica X is now at La Viruta during the month of August, so I guess Amira figured that I could dance well enough to survive...lol She is a great dancer of course. Lots of fun. Derik
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Dear All: Amira, who is a tango teacher at La Viruta, got me up on stage to dance with her at Cafe Perro Andaluz last night, with Orquesta Tipica Imperial playing a great tango. She and her dance partner performed for us all, and then Nick, Matilde and Pablo (the 3 bandondeons) announced, "....and now Derik will dance with Amira". I had no choice...lol Amira is a good friend of the singer who invited her and her partner to perform. Wow! What a surprise and a great experience...lol. PS -Practica X is now at La Viruta during the month of August, so I guess Amira figured that I could dance well enough to survive...lol She is a great dancer of course. Lots of fun. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 12-Aug-07 08:49 AM USA Central Time Message Number: 1188
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Dear All: Here is the URL link to Jazmine´s video on YOU TUBE singing her jazz song that she wrote. You can hear me in the club in the front row jumping up and down yelling and Jazmine's Argentine girlfriends laughing and talking on the video...lol. What a great performance. As you can see the rating for her video is four stars on YOU TUBE. The lyrics she wrote are...I´ve got an itch and I need a lover to help me...lol. The video´s title is Jazmine sings the blues PS- Jazmine is a great tango dancer of course. We first danced at Villa Malcolm. She comes to Practica X all the time as well. She is a really nice person and a great girl. Derik
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Dear All: Here is the URL link to Jazmine´s video on YOU TUBE singing her jazz song that she wrote. You can hear me in the club in the front row jumping up and down yelling and Jazmine's Argentine girlfriends laughing and talking on the video...lol. What a great performance. As you can see the rating for her video is four stars on YOU TUBE. The lyrics she wrote are...I´ve got an itch and I need a lover to help me...lol. The video´s title is Jazmine sings the blues PS- Jazmine is a great tango dancer of course. We first danced at Villa Malcolm. She comes to Practica X all the time as well. She is a really nice person and a great girl. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 11-Aug-07 02:00 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1187
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Dear All: Marine biologist, Skye Blue from New Zealand went to Villa Malcolm with me last night to dance nuevo tango, and we danced all night long. She is a wonderful person, a really smart girl and a great dancer. We also danced at Practica X this week as well. Now she going off on a trek across South America to a warmer climate in Bolivia for 6 weeks to work there for awhile...and when summer arrives here in Buenos Aires, she will be coming back to work and live in Buenos Aires and dance tango of course...lol.Life is good. Derik
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Dear All: Marine biologist, Skye Blue from New Zealand went to Villa Malcolm with me last night to dance nuevo tango, and we danced all night long. She is a wonderful person, a really smart girl and a great dancer. We also danced at Practica X this week as well. Now she going off on a trek across South America to a warmer climate in Bolivia for 6 weeks to work there for awhile...and when summer arrives here in Buenos Aires, she will be coming back to work and live in Buenos Aires and dance tango of course...lol.Life is good. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 10-Aug-07 07:42 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1186
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Dear All: Hot chocolate after Cafe Perro Andaluz at Cafe Iberia with Lorenzo from the French Island of Guadalupe in the Caribbean and two Argentine girls who came to the milonga. Derik
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Dear All: Hot chocolate after Cafe Perro Andaluz at Cafe Iberia with Lorenzo from the French Island of Guadalupe in the Caribbean and two Argentine girls who came to the milonga. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 10-Aug-07 07:37 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1185
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Dear All: Wow! Wonderful milonga at Cafe Perro Andaluz last night. A virtuoso French violinist who is a friend of French classical pianist Teresa, who dates Pablo who plays the big bandondeon, played an elegant, surprise concert for us all, of Astor Piazzolla´s music...incredibly beautiful stuff...Then he and I both danced tangos with Teresa while Orquesta Typica Imperial played more tangos with the full orchestra. What an evening... Life is good. PS - After the full orchestra finished playing, then Pablo put on a tango CD He danced with Teresa and I danced with Matilde and the French guy danced with an Argentine girl. Great fun all evening long until 1am....lol. Derik
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Dear All: Wow! Wonderful milonga at Cafe Perro Andaluz last night. A virtuoso French violinist who is a friend of French classical pianist Teresa, who dates Pablo who plays the big bandondeon, played an elegant, surprise concert for us all, of Astor Piazzolla´s music...incredibly beautiful stuff...Then he and I both danced tangos with Teresa while Orquesta Typica Imperial played more tangos with the full orchestra. What an evening... Life is good. PS - After the full orchestra finished playing, then Pablo put on a tango CD He danced with Teresa and I danced with Matilde and the French guy danced with an Argentine girl. Great fun all evening long until 1am....lol. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 08-Aug-07 08:31 AM USA Central Time Message Number: 1184
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Dear All: Great time at Practica X last night followed by dancing at La Catedral until 3am. Wonderful nuevo tango dancers at both and a live tango orquesta at La Catedral. Cell phone picture below. Derik
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Dear All: Great time at Practica X last night followed by dancing at La Catedral until 3am. Wonderful nuevo tango dancers at both and a live tango orquesta at La Catedral. Cell phone picture below. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 04-Aug-07 09:03 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1183
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Dear All: I´ve got an itch.. Oh My God! I died and went to heaven hearing Jazmine singing with Diego´s jazz band last night...lol. She is a STAR!!! Florencia videotaped it and I cannot wait to see it again. As Lucas (who is the leader of Oquestra Typica Contramarca) said,"---she was possessed." ...lol. Jazmine was impossibly HOT!! The lyrics were...I´ve got an itch and I need a lover to help me...lol. Derik
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Dear All: I´ve got an itch.. Oh My God! I died and went to heaven hearing Jazmine singing with Diego´s jazz band last night...lol. She is a STAR!!! Florencia videotaped it and I cannot wait to see it again. As Lucas (who is the leader of Oquestra Typica Contramarca) said,"---she was possessed." ...lol. Jazmine was impossibly HOT!! The lyrics were...I´ve got an itch and I need a lover to help me...lol. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 03-Aug-07 08:49 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1182
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Dear All: Last night on Thursday, Marc, my friend here in BsAs a native of Sweden-Portugal, (who dances tango at Villa Malcolm)and I went to a great little cafe in Palermo at Paraguay 5150. I was invited by Lucas, who is a friend of Diego, who has the Jazz band where Jazmine sings jazz. The tango orchestra is called CONTRAMARCA. This is the same tango group which played in the no-name bar last month when Florencia got me to dance on stage with the singer...lol....but this time. ... I danced with a wonderful Japanese girl who was there with the Japanese bandondeon player. The singer I danced with last month is now on tour in Europe..lol. Anyway, Marc and I had a great time. The music was incredible and the singer who was there this time was equally wonderful, but she did not dance milonga and the Japanese girl did...lol. Never dull. Cell phone picture below. Lucas is the guitar player on the right. Derik
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Dear All: Last night on Thursday, Marc, my friend here in BsAs a native of Sweden-Portugal, (who dances tango at Villa Malcolm)and I went to a great little cafe in Palermo at Paraguay 5150. I was invited by Lucas, who is a friend of Diego, who has the Jazz band where Jazmine sings jazz. The tango orchestra is called CONTRAMARCA. This is the same tango group which played in the no-name bar last month when Florencia got me to dance on stage with the singer...lol....but this time. ... I danced with a wonderful Japanese girl who was there with the Japanese bandondeon player. The singer I danced with last month is now on tour in Europe..lol. Anyway, Marc and I had a great time. The music was incredible and the singer who was there this time was equally wonderful, but she did not dance milonga and the Japanese girl did...lol. Never dull. Cell phone picture below. Lucas is the guitar player on the right. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 28-Jul-07 08:08 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1181
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Dear All: Believe it or not, I have just discovered a really great Mexican restaurant called DF, in BsAs, in the Puerto Madero area near downtown. Four Norwegian friends of mine who had just arrived here from Mexico City took me there for dinner. Great food done right!!! Tacos, marguaritas...the works! Fun. PS Went back to DF again today with Manuela from Columbia, Anit from New York and Anina from Finland and we sat in the sun drinking marquaritas again...lol. All of us dance tango of course at Practica X, La Catedral and El Tasso. The week before, our table at El Tasso on Sunday evening had 15 people...lol. Florencia was there too, of course. Fun fun. Derik
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Dear All: Believe it or not, I have just discovered a really great Mexican restaurant called DF, in BsAs, in the Puerto Madero area near downtown. Four Norwegian friends of mine who had just arrived here from Mexico City took me there for dinner. Great food done right!!! Tacos, marguaritas...the works! Fun. PS Went back to DF again today with Manuela from Columbia, Anit from New York and Anina from Finland and we sat in the sun drinking marquaritas again...lol. All of us dance tango of course at Practica X, La Catedral and El Tasso. The week before, our table at El Tasso on Sunday evening had 15 people...lol. Florencia was there too, of course. Fun fun. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 25-Jul-07 08:33 AM USA Central Time Message Number: 1180
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Dear All: Florencia is finally on a mid-term vacation from night classes at the university, so she is able to more come regualrly to Practica X, Cafe Perro Andaluz, and Villa Malcolm again for awhile. We are having a great time. Derik
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Dear All: Florencia is finally on a mid-term vacation from night classes at the university, so she is able to more come regualrly to Practica X, Cafe Perro Andaluz, and Villa Malcolm again for awhile. We are having a great time. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 21-Jul-07 01:32 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1179
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Dear All: Milongero style is a problem...lol I had an interesting conversation with Gabriella, an Argentine girl, who came to Villa Malcolm last night to learn how to dance tango. She said that she had only danced milongero style at Gricel and other crowded clubs all the time and that she discovered that she did not know how to follow a man when he was not pushing her around...lol. Derik
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Dear All: Milongero style is a problem...lol I had an interesting conversation with Gabriella, an Argentine girl, who came to Villa Malcolm last night to learn how to dance tango. She said that she had only danced milongero style at Gricel and other crowded clubs all the time and that she discovered that she did not know how to follow a man when he was not pushing her around...lol. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 15-Jul-07 01:25 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1178
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Dear All: We all danced tangos and sang French songs last night on Bastille Day to live music at Brassiere Petanque in San Telmo. Wonderful food and champagne of course. Below is a cell phone picture of Leticia and Pascal. The entire staff was dressed up in costumes of the period and the menu was the exact same as served that day in the 1700´s. Great time...lots of fun. Derik
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Dear All: We all danced tangos and sang French songs last night on Bastille Day to live music at Brassiere Petanque in San Telmo. Wonderful food and champagne of course. Below is a cell phone picture of Leticia and Pascal. The entire staff was dressed up in costumes of the period and the menu was the exact same as served that day in the 1700´s. Great time...lots of fun. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 12-Jul-07 01:15 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1177
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Dear All: Florencia and I danced tango to the live music of Orquesta Imperial at Cafe Perro Andaluz and had a wonderful time. She loves dancing to live music because it is unpredictable and much more interesting. The music was so beautiful. What a great evening...just like the little cafes in Paris.. Derik
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Dear All: Florencia and I danced tango to the live music of Orquesta Imperial at Cafe Perro Andaluz and had a wonderful time. She loves dancing to live music because it is unpredictable and much more interesting. The music was so beautiful. What a great evening...just like the little cafes in Paris.. Derik
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Buenos Aires- Danced tango tonight at Brasserie Petanque with Sinead Canning from Ireland, who lives and works in London and worked for the BBC. Pascal, the owner of Petanque really liked her, so he and le chef kept giving us all free champagne on the house to keep us going even after the restaurant was closed..lol. PS- Sinead's ancestors were in Argentina at the same time as mine in the 1860´s..lol, so Doctor Guillermo Rawson, who was the Minister of the Interior in 1863 and Mr. Canning knew each other. They both served in the Argentine goverment. Salon Canning, where the tango tourists now dance tango, was originally on Canning Avenue in Palermo, before Juan Peron changed the name of the avenue to Scalabrini-Ortiz. It is really amazing that Sinead and I both came here to dance tango many years later. Guess it is in our blood...lol. By the way Sinead and I also danced at Villa Malcolm and Practica X and those were her two favorite places to dance tango. She loves nuevo tango of course...lol. William (Derik) Rawson (me)
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Buenos Aires- Danced tango tonight at Brasserie Petanque with Sinead Canning from Ireland, who lives and works in London and worked for the BBC. Pascal, the owner of Petanque really liked her, so he and le chef kept giving us all free champagne on the house to keep us going even after the restaurant was closed..lol. PS- Sinead's ancestors were in Argentina at the same time as mine in the 1860´s..lol, so Doctor Guillermo Rawson, who was the Minister of the Interior in 1863 and Mr. Canning knew each other. They both served in the Argentine goverment. Salon Canning, where the tango tourists now dance tango, was originally on Canning Avenue in Palermo, before Juan Peron changed the name of the avenue to Scalabrini-Ortiz. It is really amazing that Sinead and I both came here to dance tango many years later. Guess it is in our blood...lol. By the way Sinead and I also danced at Villa Malcolm and Practica X and those were her two favorite places to dance tango. She loves nuevo tango of course...lol. William (Derik) Rawson (me)
Click Here to see larger Image 06-Jul-07 04:23 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1175
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Dear All: Big fight at Nino Bien last night. An Argentine guy accused the dancers of not moving well on the dance floor and being in his way...lol. The management threw him out because it did not want to upset the so-called perfect dancers...lol, who were the object of his complaints. Interesting...lol. Derik
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Dear All: Big fight at Nino Bien last night. An Argentine guy accused the dancers of not moving well on the dance floor and being in his way...lol. The management threw him out because it did not want to upset the so-called perfect dancers...lol, who were the object of his complaints. Interesting...lol. Derik
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Dear All: Danced with Teresa from France to the live music of Orqestra Tipica Imperial at the beautiful little Cafe Perreo Andaluz at Bolivar 852 in San Telmo. Just like the little cafes in Paris, France. Small, intimate and charming. One of the very best tango experiences one can have here in Buenos Aires....the real thing. Derik
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Dear All: Danced with Teresa from France to the live music of Orqestra Tipica Imperial at the beautiful little Cafe Perreo Andaluz at Bolivar 852 in San Telmo. Just like the little cafes in Paris, France. Small, intimate and charming. One of the very best tango experiences one can have here in Buenos Aires....the real thing. Derik
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Dear All: Practica X was fantastic again with more than 200 people dancing to really beautiful music, and a spectacular performance of course...lol. Derik
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Dear All: Practica X was fantastic again with more than 200 people dancing to really beautiful music, and a spectacular performance of course...lol. Derik
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Dear All: Florencia showed up at Villa Malcolm tonight and we danced wome great tangos. After that we went to La Viruta to hear Color Tango Orchestra, which she loves. Great evening. Derik
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Dear All: Florencia showed up at Villa Malcolm tonight and we danced wome great tangos. After that we went to La Viruta to hear Color Tango Orchestra, which she loves. Great evening. Derik
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Dear All; As I was dancing with Romina, I kept thinking to myself...oh my God, if I make a wrong step, we are going to fall right off the stage. Fortunately, we survived...lol. What a great experience. Fun. Derik
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Dear All; As I was dancing with Romina, I kept thinking to myself...oh my God, if I make a wrong step, we are going to fall right off the stage. Fortunately, we survived...lol. What a great experience. Fun. Derik
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Dear All: We had a huge group at our table, which was right next to the stage, so of course, right after I danced with Carolina, Romina came over and got me to go up on stage with her and dance several tangos. Wow! What a trip !! Derik
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Dear All: We had a huge group at our table, which was right next to the stage, so of course, right after I danced with Carolina, Romina came over and got me to go up on stage with her and dance several tangos. Wow! What a trip !! Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 20-Jun-07 12:23 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1169
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Dear All: Clowning around with Carolina from Vienna, Austria at 36 Billardes last night. She just bought some new tango shoes, so we danced of course...lol. Derik
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Dear All: Clowning around with Carolina from Vienna, Austria at 36 Billardes last night. She just bought some new tango shoes, so we danced of course...lol. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 17-Jun-07 08:50 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1168
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Dear All: Florencia did not make it to Villa Malcolm this Friday because she has a class at the university until 11pm and she was dead tired with a cold all week, but we met at La Viruta the next night on Saturday night and danced rock n roll and tangos. That same night I also got to dance at La Viruta with Matilda, who plays the bandeon with Orquesta Imperial. She and the orchestra just got back from a 2 month European Tour. Matilda is a beautiful girl, a great bandondeonista and a great dancer... and she loves to dance nuevo tango. She told me that she had been dancing with a lot of guys that night who were not following the music, and that she liked dancing with me because I follow the music...lol. Wow! What a compliment coming from a tango musician. Life is good...lol. Derik
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Dear All: Florencia did not make it to Villa Malcolm this Friday because she has a class at the university until 11pm and she was dead tired with a cold all week, but we met at La Viruta the next night on Saturday night and danced rock n roll and tangos. That same night I also got to dance at La Viruta with Matilda, who plays the bandeon with Orquesta Imperial. She and the orchestra just got back from a 2 month European Tour. Matilda is a beautiful girl, a great bandondeonista and a great dancer... and she loves to dance nuevo tango. She told me that she had been dancing with a lot of guys that night who were not following the music, and that she liked dancing with me because I follow the music...lol. Wow! What a compliment coming from a tango musician. Life is good...lol. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 16-Jun-07 08:29 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1167
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Dear All: A friend of mine, John Poindester, flew in from Houston, Texas. John worked on Wall Street, has his own companies, and he also speaks Spanish fluently. He was making business presentations here in Spanish for Argetine business people. Anyway John and I had drinks at Hotel Alverar where he was staying, and then we went to the tango show at Cafe Tortoni. After the show we walked over to La Confitieria Ideal to hear a live orchestra play for dancers. After John saw me dance with a beautiful girl from Uraguay, who I just met that night on the tango dance floor, he suddenly decided that he wanted to come back to BsAs and learn to dance tango. Life is good lol. Derik PS - John is a good friend of Ted Pinson who came to BsAs to visit a few weeks ago while here on a hunting expedition in Cordoba. Ted, who knowa how to dance tango, got taken over by Swdish girls at La Confiteria Ideal while he was here...lol.
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Dear All: A friend of mine, John Poindester, flew in from Houston, Texas. John worked on Wall Street, has his own companies, and he also speaks Spanish fluently. He was making business presentations here in Spanish for Argetine business people. Anyway John and I had drinks at Hotel Alverar where he was staying, and then we went to the tango show at Cafe Tortoni. After the show we walked over to La Confitieria Ideal to hear a live orchestra play for dancers. After John saw me dance with a beautiful girl from Uraguay, who I just met that night on the tango dance floor, he suddenly decided that he wanted to come back to BsAs and learn to dance tango. Life is good lol. Derik PS - John is a good friend of Ted Pinson who came to BsAs to visit a few weeks ago while here on a hunting expedition in Cordoba. Ted, who knowa how to dance tango, got taken over by Swdish girls at La Confiteria Ideal while he was here...lol.
Click Here to see larger Image 13-Jun-07 08:16 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1166
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Dear All: Last night went to 36 Billardes to welcome back Carlos and Romina from their European Tour to Italy and France. The cell phone photo is some friends of theirs dancing. We all danced and had a blast. Derik
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Dear All: Last night went to 36 Billardes to welcome back Carlos and Romina from their European Tour to Italy and France. The cell phone photo is some friends of theirs dancing. We all danced and had a blast. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 10-Jun-07 11:55 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1165
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Dear All: Today, Sunday, is my birthday. Florencia bought me a box of chocaltes...lol...and we danced tangos at Dorrego Plaza all night. The weather was perfect for dancing and everyone was there. Beautiful dancing all night. Florencia even told the the guy running the event that it was my birthday and he announced it on the sound system toward the end of the dance, so everybody started hugging me. What a fun night...lol. We had a great time. Derik
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Dear All: Today, Sunday, is my birthday. Florencia bought me a box of chocaltes...lol...and we danced tangos at Dorrego Plaza all night. The weather was perfect for dancing and everyone was there. Beautiful dancing all night. Florencia even told the the guy running the event that it was my birthday and he announced it on the sound system toward the end of the dance, so everybody started hugging me. What a fun night...lol. We had a great time. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 09-Jun-07 02:59 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1164
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Dear All: Florencia and I danced again tonight all night at Villa Malcolm and had great time as usual. Believe it or not, I also got to dance with yet another singer, this time JAZZ, who is a great tango dancer. Jazmine is gorgeous of course...lol. We danced a lot of tangos. She is from Santa Barbara, California where my cousins all grew up. I told Jazmine that I was in the Fiesta Parade in Santa Barbara when I was 5 years old, and she seemed to like that...lol. Anyway, Jazmine now lives in BsAs. She says the Argentines are pretty wild jazz musicians and singing jazz with them playing is a real trip. Never a dull moment in Buenos Aires..lol. Derik
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Dear All: Florencia and I danced again tonight all night at Villa Malcolm and had great time as usual. Believe it or not, I also got to dance with yet another singer, this time JAZZ, who is a great tango dancer. Jazmine is gorgeous of course...lol. We danced a lot of tangos. She is from Santa Barbara, California where my cousins all grew up. I told Jazmine that I was in the Fiesta Parade in Santa Barbara when I was 5 years old, and she seemed to like that...lol. Anyway, Jazmine now lives in BsAs. She says the Argentines are pretty wild jazz musicians and singing jazz with them playing is a real trip. Never a dull moment in Buenos Aires..lol. Derik
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Dear ALL: ...and when the singer at the No Name Club announced to the audience that she wanted to dance a tango and no one volunteered, Florencia said, "Go dance with her". I jumped up on the stage of course and danced several tangos. Not only was the singer one of the best singers I have ever heard, but she was a really wonderful nuevo tango dancer...lol We had some fun and her husband or boyfriend sitting right next to us. smiled. What a beautiful evening in the No Name club in BsAs. Life is good. Derik
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Dear ALL: ...and when the singer at the No Name Club announced to the audience that she wanted to dance a tango and no one volunteered, Florencia said, "Go dance with her". I jumped up on the stage of course and danced several tangos. Not only was the singer one of the best singers I have ever heard, but she was a really wonderful nuevo tango dancer...lol We had some fun and her husband or boyfriend sitting right next to us. smiled. What a beautiful evening in the No Name club in BsAs. Life is good. Derik
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Dear All: Club with No Name tango musicians cell phone picture below
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Dear All: Club with No Name tango musicians cell phone picture below
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Dear All: This is the inside of the club with no name...lol.
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Dear All: This is the inside of the club with no name...lol.
Click Here to see larger Image 03-Jun-07 08:54 AM USA Central Time Message Number: 1160
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Dear All: Wild last two weeks...lol. A week ago Wednesday, Ted Pinson, a good friend of mine, who dances at Bistro Latin in Paris and lives in Houston, showed up in BsAs for one night with a party of 5 men just back from a fishing and hunting trip to Cordoba, Argentina. We all had drinks in the very plush lobby of the Hotel Alvear in Recoletta and then I took them over to La Confiteria Ideal to dance tango. Some Swedish girls got a hold of Ted and got him dancing, and now his life will never be the same again. He loves La Confiteria Ideal and cannot wait to come back to BsAs...lol. The day after the above adventure, I went back to La Ideal again to hear the live orchestra Los Reyes del Tango, and the place was jam packed with people. More fun. Then on Friday I went to Villa Malcolm and I danced nuevo tango with drop dead gorgeous Marissa from New York City, who just materialized out of nowhere, wearing a beautiful backless evening dress....wow!. She was a fantastic dancer. Went we on after that to dance at La Viruta until early. I took it easy on Saturday, Sunday and Monday and then on Tuesday, I went to Practica X and danced more nuevo tango with Marissa again before she had to be on a 4am flight back to New York...lol. What a woman!! She works on Wall Street of course, trading derivatives and when she is not doing that she dances tango, West Coast Swing and the Hustle. Finally on Thursday, Florencia re-surfaced after getting her cell phone fixed and recovering from too much work at IBM during the day plus going to university every night for college courses in architecture. She found a wonderful tango orchestra that plays on Thursday nights in a bar with no name and no door, just a buzzer with a light shining on it. A man opens up the wall, when you ring the buzzer and the password is tango...lol. Very cool. Derik
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Dear All: Wild last two weeks...lol. A week ago Wednesday, Ted Pinson, a good friend of mine, who dances at Bistro Latin in Paris and lives in Houston, showed up in BsAs for one night with a party of 5 men just back from a fishing and hunting trip to Cordoba, Argentina. We all had drinks in the very plush lobby of the Hotel Alvear in Recoletta and then I took them over to La Confiteria Ideal to dance tango. Some Swedish girls got a hold of Ted and got him dancing, and now his life will never be the same again. He loves La Confiteria Ideal and cannot wait to come back to BsAs...lol. The day after the above adventure, I went back to La Ideal again to hear the live orchestra Los Reyes del Tango, and the place was jam packed with people. More fun. Then on Friday I went to Villa Malcolm and I danced nuevo tango with drop dead gorgeous Marissa from New York City, who just materialized out of nowhere, wearing a beautiful backless evening dress....wow!. She was a fantastic dancer. Went we on after that to dance at La Viruta until early. I took it easy on Saturday, Sunday and Monday and then on Tuesday, I went to Practica X and danced more nuevo tango with Marissa again before she had to be on a 4am flight back to New York...lol. What a woman!! She works on Wall Street of course, trading derivatives and when she is not doing that she dances tango, West Coast Swing and the Hustle. Finally on Thursday, Florencia re-surfaced after getting her cell phone fixed and recovering from too much work at IBM during the day plus going to university every night for college courses in architecture. She found a wonderful tango orchestra that plays on Thursday nights in a bar with no name and no door, just a buzzer with a light shining on it. A man opens up the wall, when you ring the buzzer and the password is tango...lol. Very cool. Derik
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Dear all: saw this on my way to practica x derik
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Dear All: Lunch today at Brasserie Petanque. Chicken cordon blue with mushrooms. Life is good in San Telmo. Voila! PS - I shot this photo with my cell phone camera and Emailed it to Tango World Wide Then I made this post entirely by my cell phone web browser. Derik
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Dear All: Lunch today at Brasserie Petanque. Chicken cordon blue with mushrooms. Life is good in San Telmo. Voila! PS - I shot this photo with my cell phone camera and Emailed it to Tango World Wide Then I made this post entirely by my cell phone web browser. Derik
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Dear All: Wild week again...lol. Monday Florencia, her mom and I went to a private party at Sangria Restaurant to celebrate the second anniversary of the French restaurant in San Telmo called Petanque at: http://www.brasseriepetanque.com/ The partners, the French owner, Pascal and the Argentine owner. Leticia also own the Spanish restaurant. Wow! Great food and a great time. Best Sangria wine drink that I have had in years and of course wonderful tapas. We all had a blast. Derik
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Dear All: Wild week again...lol. Monday Florencia, her mom and I went to a private party at Sangria Restaurant to celebrate the second anniversary of the French restaurant in San Telmo called Petanque at: http://www.brasseriepetanque.com/ The partners, the French owner, Pascal and the Argentine owner. Leticia also own the Spanish restaurant. Wow! Great food and a great time. Best Sangria wine drink that I have had in years and of course wonderful tapas. We all had a blast. Derik
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Dear All: In San Telmo almost everyone who can really dance tango for real, dances tango in the street on cobblestones with no problems. Today I saw grandparents dancing to Orquesta El Afronte which is composed of all twenty year old grandkids. The parents of the kids are watching instead of dancing. Interesting... Derik
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Dear All: In San Telmo almost everyone who can really dance tango for real, dances tango in the street on cobblestones with no problems. Today I saw grandparents dancing to Orquesta El Afronte which is composed of all twenty year old grandkids. The parents of the kids are watching instead of dancing. Interesting... Derik
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Dear All: Last night on Friday, was Florencia´s birthday. We celebrated at Villa Malcolm and La Viruta until about 6am. Gaby let her in to Villa Malcolm for free, but I had to pay...lol. Florencia´s cousins and her mom also came with us. Everyone danced tango and we had fun. Derik
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Dear All: Last night on Friday, was Florencia´s birthday. We celebrated at Villa Malcolm and La Viruta until about 6am. Gaby let her in to Villa Malcolm for free, but I had to pay...lol. Florencia´s cousins and her mom also came with us. Everyone danced tango and we had fun. Derik
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Dear All: Dancing tango at Independencia 574. Cell phone photo below. Derik
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Dear All: Dancing tango at Independencia 574. Cell phone photo below. Derik
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Dear All: Went to concert for 5 pesos for the 10-piece tango Orquesta Baigon on Thursday at a really cool place to dance tango in San Telmo. It is located at Independencia 574 and Peru Streets, and is upstairs. The concert was great and there were hundreds of people there, and we danced tango. Cell phone photo below. Derik
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Dear All: Went to concert for 5 pesos for the 10-piece tango Orquesta Baigon on Thursday at a really cool place to dance tango in San Telmo. It is located at Independencia 574 and Peru Streets, and is upstairs. The concert was great and there were hundreds of people there, and we danced tango. Cell phone photo below. Derik
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Dear All: This is Rubin Guerra singing with the Orchesta of Leopoldo Melo at 36 Billardes at 1265 Avenida de Mayo between Congresso and Avenida 9 Julio. Derik
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Dear All: This is Rubin Guerra singing with the Orchesta of Leopoldo Melo at 36 Billardes at 1265 Avenida de Mayo between Congresso and Avenida 9 Julio. Derik
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Dear All: This is the private club established in 1880, where Florencia and I danced. Derik
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Dear All: This is the private club established in 1880, where Florencia and I danced. Derik
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Dear All: Well, I missed Practica X because... I went to Carlos and Romina'S bon voyage party for their European tour beinning in May. There was a special tango show milonga last night on Tuesday, at 1265 Avenida de Mayo at a place called 36 Billardes. It has been having tango shows and milongas since 1894 for all the Argentines who live in the San Telmo and Plaza de Mayo neighborhoods. This night there were two different orchestas, and as you can see in the cell phone picture below, Carlos is wearing a tuxedo with tails and Romina is in a dressy black outfit. Rubin Guerera, the singer, is singing ¨Mi Buenos Aires¨ to them while they are dancing. The girl looking on and the one behind her with the red hair are both Argentines who danced that night. I danced with four or five different girls and Romina off course. Romina sang the words to the songs while we danced and the girl with the red hair in the picture from Salta, Argentina was a great dancer. We all had a wonderful evening with the neighborhood people. Derik
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Dear All: Well, I missed Practica X because... I went to Carlos and Romina'S bon voyage party for their European tour beinning in May. There was a special tango show milonga last night on Tuesday, at 1265 Avenida de Mayo at a place called 36 Billardes. It has been having tango shows and milongas since 1894 for all the Argentines who live in the San Telmo and Plaza de Mayo neighborhoods. This night there were two different orchestas, and as you can see in the cell phone picture below, Carlos is wearing a tuxedo with tails and Romina is in a dressy black outfit. Rubin Guerera, the singer, is singing ¨Mi Buenos Aires¨ to them while they are dancing. The girl looking on and the one behind her with the red hair are both Argentines who danced that night. I danced with four or five different girls and Romina off course. Romina sang the words to the songs while we danced and the girl with the red hair in the picture from Salta, Argentina was a great dancer. We all had a wonderful evening with the neighborhood people. Derik
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Dear All: SALENTO, on Wednesday nights in Houston, Texas, a very successful milonga, which I started along with Jackie Arita, the owner-manager and Oscar Gamundi, a great tango DJ, was the first practica-milonga in Houston and everyone told me that I was totally wrong to allow people to practice steps at a milonga.....Well, now here in Buenos Aires, it seems to be THE THING TO ..lol. Practica X is tonight and last Tuesday there were almost three hundred people dancing tango there and practicing new steps. Interesting....lol. Derik
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Dear All: SALENTO, on Wednesday nights in Houston, Texas, a very successful milonga, which I started along with Jackie Arita, the owner-manager and Oscar Gamundi, a great tango DJ, was the first practica-milonga in Houston and everyone told me that I was totally wrong to allow people to practice steps at a milonga.....Well, now here in Buenos Aires, it seems to be THE THING TO ..lol. Practica X is tonight and last Tuesday there were almost three hundred people dancing tango there and practicing new steps. Interesting....lol. Derik
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Argentine women are the most beautiful women in the world because they are smart....lol. How does a woman ask a man to dance tango in Argentina... Florencia and I went to a milonga Friday night on a roof top at an Argentine private club downtown which was established in 1880, when tango first began, and for the first time that I can remember, there were zero tourists at the milonga...lol. While I was waiting for Florencia to arrive from Belgrano, an Argentine woman asked me to dance.... and this is how it is actually done here in Buenos Aires. A man comes over to your table with a woman on his arm and he presents her to you. He tells you that she would like to dance a tango. There is almost no way a man can refuse the request without being rude, so a man always says yes. There is no eye contact stuff (cabecio) at all. The public presentation of the woman is very straight forward, simple, direct, and it really works!!!....lol. This is the perfect example of why Argentine women are the most beautiful women in the world. US American and some Northern European women could learn a lot about being beautiful from their Argentine women friends down here, by trying to love men, instead of compete with them...lol. I danced with Barbara many times that night, because she had style. Florencia enjoyed hearing my story about being asked to dance by Barbara, and smiled. Florencia is smart and beautiful too, so she knows...lol. Life is good. Derik PS - Argentine women are strong minded as they are smart. The tough minded cowgirl spirit is still in them for sure, but they know how to handle men. Florencia takes martial arts classes. She asked me the other day if it was making her too tough, and I said no. ..lol.
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Argentine women are the most beautiful women in the world because they are smart....lol. How does a woman ask a man to dance tango in Argentina... Florencia and I went to a milonga Friday night on a roof top at an Argentine private club downtown which was established in 1880, when tango first began, and for the first time that I can remember, there were zero tourists at the milonga...lol. While I was waiting for Florencia to arrive from Belgrano, an Argentine woman asked me to dance.... and this is how it is actually done here in Buenos Aires. A man comes over to your table with a woman on his arm and he presents her to you. He tells you that she would like to dance a tango. There is almost no way a man can refuse the request without being rude, so a man always says yes. There is no eye contact stuff (cabecio) at all. The public presentation of the woman is very straight forward, simple, direct, and it really works!!!....lol. This is the perfect example of why Argentine women are the most beautiful women in the world. US American and some Northern European women could learn a lot about being beautiful from their Argentine women friends down here, by trying to love men, instead of compete with them...lol. I danced with Barbara many times that night, because she had style. Florencia enjoyed hearing my story about being asked to dance by Barbara, and smiled. Florencia is smart and beautiful too, so she knows...lol. Life is good. Derik PS - Argentine women are strong minded as they are smart. The tough minded cowgirl spirit is still in them for sure, but they know how to handle men. Florencia takes martial arts classes. She asked me the other day if it was making her too tough, and I said no. ..lol.
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Dear All: San Telmo was great again today. Everyone was dancing in the street...lol. There were at least four full tango orchestras playing live music all day long and couples were dancing everywhere. I even ran into Carlos and Romina who live in San Telmo. They are getting ready to go to Europe soon. Below is a cell phone picture of a couple dancing on cobblestone and doing a nuevo tango volcada to the live music of Orquesta El Afronte which was performing with singer. Life here is good.. Derik
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Dear All: San Telmo was great again today. Everyone was dancing in the street...lol. There were at least four full tango orchestras playing live music all day long and couples were dancing everywhere. I even ran into Carlos and Romina who live in San Telmo. They are getting ready to go to Europe soon. Below is a cell phone picture of a couple dancing on cobblestone and doing a nuevo tango volcada to the live music of Orquesta El Afronte which was performing with singer. Life here is good.. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 09-May-07 07:46 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1143
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Dear All: Nuevo Tango and the fast tango dance called The Milonga... Many tango dancers do not like to dance the fast tango dance called the milonga, basically because they do not know how, so they avoid it, but once they learn to dance the milonga, then suddenly they love to dance the milonga. The same is now true for nuevo tango. If you can dance nuevo tango well and learn the dance system behind it, then you will be able to dance to all the classics easily and you will be able to create your own tango steps and embraces impromptu as you go. You will have your own tango. The nuevo tango dance system includes all the various styles and multiple embraces of tango, so it is virtually unlimited. The other styles of tango exclude instead of include, so they are limiting instead of expanding tango. If are you can only dance one classic style, then you are missing out on the real fun of tango, and just like the people who avoid dancing the milonga, you are limiting yourself. The really good dancers here in Buenos Aires are beginning to figure this out and that is why the nuevo tango milongas are growing so rapidly in popularity. People here want to dance ALL THE TIME!! and dance to everything, not sit and watch other people dance, so they are now beginning to learn the nuevo tango system of dance, so they can dance to anything that comes up. My opinion. Derik
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Dear All: Nuevo Tango and the fast tango dance called The Milonga... Many tango dancers do not like to dance the fast tango dance called the milonga, basically because they do not know how, so they avoid it, but once they learn to dance the milonga, then suddenly they love to dance the milonga. The same is now true for nuevo tango. If you can dance nuevo tango well and learn the dance system behind it, then you will be able to dance to all the classics easily and you will be able to create your own tango steps and embraces impromptu as you go. You will have your own tango. The nuevo tango dance system includes all the various styles and multiple embraces of tango, so it is virtually unlimited. The other styles of tango exclude instead of include, so they are limiting instead of expanding tango. If are you can only dance one classic style, then you are missing out on the real fun of tango, and just like the people who avoid dancing the milonga, you are limiting yourself. The really good dancers here in Buenos Aires are beginning to figure this out and that is why the nuevo tango milongas are growing so rapidly in popularity. People here want to dance ALL THE TIME!! and dance to everything, not sit and watch other people dance, so they are now beginning to learn the nuevo tango system of dance, so they can dance to anything that comes up. My opinion. Derik
Click Here to see larger Image 09-May-07 07:33 PM USA Central Time Message Number: 1142
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Dear All: Well last night I went to Practica X, a big, huge nuevo tango milonga, in a brand new building, from 9pm to 1am with almost 300 people, every Tuesday night before La Catedral from 12am to 3am. The dance floor is large and everyone knew how to really dance all tango styles really well using multiple embraces... and they danced to everything...classics to nuevo. What a blast. Cell phone picture below. Derik PS Now the largest and most popular milongas in Buenos Aires are becoming the nuevo tango practica-milongas like Villa Malcolm and Practica X. Even La Viruta has basically gone to a nuevo tango practica-milonga format on Wednesdays. Time to learn how to dance...lol.
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Dear All: Well last night I went to Practica X, a big, huge nuevo tango milonga, in a brand new building, from 9pm to 1am with almost 300 people, every Tuesday night before La Catedral from 12am to 3am. The dance floor is large and everyone knew how to really dance all tango styles really well using multiple embraces... and they danced to everything...classics to nuevo. What a blast. Cell phone picture below. Derik PS Now the largest and most popular milongas in Buenos Aires are becoming the nuevo tango practica-milongas like Villa Malcolm and Practica X. Even La Viruta has basically gone to a nuevo tango practica-milonga format on Wednesdays. Time to learn how to dance...lol.
Click Here to see larger Image 07-May-07 11:11 AM USA Central Time Message Number: 1141
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Dear All: I went to El Tasso at 11pm last night in San Telmo at 1575 Defensa and Brazil across from the park, after Dorrego Plaza from 7pm-11pm. El Tasso cultural center is a beautiful place to dance and most of the people there were at Dorrego before. Of course at 12pm nuevo tango music was played and yet again about 90 percent of the dancers had to sit down and watch the other 10 percent dance. The nuevo tango dancers just kept on dancing of course...lol. Never Dull. Cell phone photo below. Derik
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Dear All: I went to El Tasso at 11pm last night in San Telmo at 1575 Defensa and Brazil across from the park, after Dorrego Plaza from 7pm-11pm. El Tasso cultural center is a beautiful place to dance and most of the people there were at Dorrego before. Of course at 12pm nuevo tango music was played and yet again about 90 percent of the dancers had to sit down and watch the other 10 percent dance. The nuevo tango dancers just kept on dancing of course...lol. Never Dull. Cell phone photo below. Derik
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Dear All: We were all at Dorrego Plaza again this last Sunday night and had a blast. Florencia brought her mom, Carmen, who comes to Villa Malcolm and Dorrego with us every once in a while. Last week even Luciana brought her mom to Villa Malcolm. Both mom´s love tango, and they even dance sometimes. I danced with Florencia of course and then also with Katherine from Montreal, Quebec who came to visit for awhile with a guy from Italy. After Katherine left, Martin Vittone showed up, so he and I both danced with Florencia. She was a happy girl....lol. We had a great group of people at our table. Cell phone picture of dancers doing folklorico at Dorrego Plaza at night in San Telmo. Derik
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Dear All: We were all at Dorrego Plaza again this last Sunday night and had a blast. Florencia brought her mom, Carmen, who comes to Villa Malcolm and Dorrego with us every once in a while. Last week even Luciana brought her mom to Villa Malcolm. Both mom´s love tango, and they even dance sometimes. I danced with Florencia of course and then also with Katherine from Montreal, Quebec who came to visit for awhile with a guy from Italy. After Katherine left, Martin Vittone showed up, so he and I both danced with Florencia. She was a happy girl....lol. We had a great group of people at our table. Cell phone picture of dancers doing folklorico at Dorrego Plaza at night in San Telmo. Derik
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Dear All: Cell phone photo of the orquesta on stage. PS - A black and white cat walked across the stage in the middle of the performance. Cool cat. Derik
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Dear All: Cell phone photo of the orquesta on stage. PS - A black and white cat walked across the stage in the middle of the performance. Cool cat. Derik
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Dear All: LIVE MUSIC OF Orquesta Fevor de Buenos Aires !!! was fantastic. It was the last milonga before it began a tour of Europe!!! Cell photo of the crowd below. It which was huge...lol. Derik
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Dear All: LIVE MUSIC OF Orquesta Fevor de Buenos Aires !!! was fantastic. It was the last milonga before it began a tour of Europe!!! Cell photo of the crowd below. It which was huge...lol. Derik
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Dear All: Florencia and I danced hours and hours again at Villa Malcolm until 3:00am and La Virtuta afterwards from 3:30am until early morning today, and as usual Villa Malcolm had something really interesting going on.,,really great dancers dancing a beautiful tango waltz in black tie and tuxedos. Cell phone picture below. Life is good. PS - The guys in the doorway in the background are shooting a documentary film about tango for Italian television, so we were in it...lol. Derik
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Dear All: Florencia and I danced hours and hours again at Villa Malcolm until 3:00am and La Virtuta afterwards from 3:30am until early morning today, and as usual Villa Malcolm had something really interesting going on.,,really great dancers dancing a beautiful tango waltz in black tie and tuxedos. Cell phone picture below. Life is good. PS - The guys in the doorway in the background are shooting a documentary film about tango for Italian television, so we were in it...lol. Derik
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Dear All: Last Thursday Florencia and I went to Nino Bien to dance tango. It is getting better. The Argentines are slowly returning to dance as the tango tourists leave for home. Below is a cell phone photo I took at 2am. Also Martin Vittone and his mom and dad came and sat at our table. I danced with his mom and she was great fun. We all had a blast. Life is good. Derik
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Dear All: Last Thursday Florencia and I went to Nino Bien to dance tango. It is getting better. The Argentines are slowly returning to dance as the tango tourists leave for home. Below is a cell phone photo I took at 2am. Also Martin Vittone and his mom and dad came and sat at our table. I danced with his mom and she was great fun. We all had a blast. Life is good. Derik
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