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LATEST ARTICLES ( 40 )

• Feminism and Tango

  Republished from The Saccharine Mountain, by request.I am a feminist tanguera. And that means, among other things, that1. No, I don’t think leading is this... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2015 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Magnum in Parvo

  The rest of the world is blurry in my peripheral vision. For a moment, I catch sight of a flash of white shirt which I know belongs to a boy so handsome I... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Warning on International Men’s Day

  I feel I should warn you, my women friends. Don’t dance tango if you love men. If you’ve always had a soft spot the size of Jupiter for our heterozygote... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Proofreaders and Poets

  – Who are you? — Don’t puzzle me. (Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy)I’ve been musing on some differences between training and dancing, for followers. Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• This Story

  Guest post by Deborah BowmanWhen we’re dancing, you and me, you in the man’s role and me in the woman’s, we’re telling a story. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Lolito

  A fiction. He stands a little awkwardly, chest puffed out just a tiny bit, like a pigeon half-hearted about its courtship. I can feel his weight shifting around... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Meaner Beauties of the Night

  We’ve been sitting here for a while now, in a long sad row. My legs are crossed tightly, awkwardly, like a Hebrew letter written in a narrow sans serif font. Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dancing with Your Whole Self

  Republished from Sugar Mountain Land.Some people take a while to find their tango, to move with ease and confidence, to lose their awkwardness, their tension, t... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Salon Soldiers

  For many of my dancer friends, steps aren’t just random movements which happen to be part of the conventional vocabulary of our dance. Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dancing with My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend

  This post first appeared on the Sugar Mountain. I’m republishing it here for those who eschew the saccharine slopes, preferring their words crisply ironed. Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Some Versions of Musicality

  Since people are always asking me what I mean by dancing “musically”, here are some of the things I understand by it. I try to think about these in my own... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Cabeceo: A User’s Guide

  Since so many people still seem confused about how cabeceo works, here is a brief guide to what I understand by effective cabeceo.1. Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Land of the Long-Term Beginner

  There are two kinds of tango scenes, two kinds of approaches to tango. The first, I’ll call The Tango-Lovers’ Country — a place where people go because they lov... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Legwrap Land: Musings

  Note: I’ve decided to switch my shorter musings, grumbles, diary entries and general superfluous opinionated rants about tango from Facebook to here (I’ll be... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dancing with the Queen

  Guest Entry by Derrick Del PilarIt’s past 2:30am and I am tired. I am tired and a few of my joints ache, even though I am one of the younger people here, still... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2014 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Paper Moon

  A fiction“Lomuto with Omar”, I ordered. “Orchestra Francisco Lomuto; singer Jorge Omar”, the silky voice parroted. “Lossy, as usual?” “Oh yes — what the hell,... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2013 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Travels with the Puppydog

  The sky is velvety thick, clotted with clouds, heavy with the rain that is to come. Above and behind us, the villa’s tall French doors are open to the warm... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Spaghetti Per Tutti

  The searing heat of earlier in the day has subsided into a delicious evening coolness, as we fold back the front seats of our tiny car in the automotive... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2013 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Leglines

  I climb the stairs, past the beautiful bird cage lift. I wait awkwardly in the queue, burdened with a bulky jacket and sweater, tango shoes dangling off me... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION

• Four Legs

  As I walk carefully around the familiar small upstairs room, shutters closed against the street, the heavy bags we all carry (with tango heels, leading shoes,... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 CULTURE, EXPAT, SELF EXPRESSION