Joaquin Amenabars Spring tour in Europe 2018!

Tour 2018

• Cologne DE 13/14 January 2018 Tango 8
• Kassel DE 20/21 January 2018 Tango Querido
• Osnabruck DE 23/24/25 January 2018 Tango Fuego
• Konstanz DE 3/4 February 2018 Peter Wenger
• Dresden DE 6/7/8 February 2018 Tom Schr�der
• Hamburg DE 10/11 February 2018 El Abrazo
• Reutlingen DE 14/15 February 2018 Martina Belharz
• Freibrug DE 17/18 February 2018 Tangoclub El Corazon
• Aosta IT 21/22 February 2017 Walter Abrigo
• Bari IT 23/24/25 February 2018 Mara Mansur
• Montauban FR 3/4 March 2018 Montauban Couleur Tango
• Dusseldorf DE 6/7/8 March 2018 Nezih Bourokba
• Marseille FR 10/11 March 2018 Diego Amado
• Paris FR 20/21/22 March 2018 Esta noche de luna
• Perpignan FR 25/26 March 2018 Tangueros Perpignan
• Valencia ES 7/8 April 2018 Aperotango Peraballar

A link to his site if you want to contact him or by the book!

http://www.joaquinamenabar.com/index.php?p=tour2018&l=en

Followers: 5 Worse Argentine Tango Habits

The video starts with presentation of what an active follower can destroy during a tanda!

At the end Yulia Maluta shows shows the opposite; some beautiful harmonious movements to put your own flavor on following!

What a valse: Quien Sera, Edgardo Donato

It goes some slow and always in flow!     

                                               My favorites for these days!

Maria Filali et Ozgur Karahan à Lille Première improvisation valse: Quien Sera, Edgardo Donato

Bellydancing in Malmö!

Here we have Fernando and Adriana dancing together with their second child!

Bellydancing!

https://youtu.be/N1bi9kclkSI

Triangular dancing!

Here you have an old milonga summary of Jorge Torres workshop. I think he is one of the teachers who often had his baby around the workshop floor and on the videos. I wonder how the baby thinks about the dance today?




Here a more recent video and at earlier stages but still a sweet family picture. I wonder if Michelle and Joachim are going to have a new baby?

https://youtu.be/6cKD-KgB33A

A Chicho interview

I came across this Chicho interview again and refreshed some information lost during the years! I remember that he has been working together with Naveira and Salas but in this interview he strongly states how important impact Naveira has had on him. He talks also about the base for his dance as well as the changing opinions about him!

Take a look! It is beautifull too

Here you have the Vimeo link! 

                             

       https://vimeo.com/108000178

Kalganova and Nadtochi to waltz - a beaaaauty!

There is today only a few couples who master waltz and clearly fewer who will do it with this skill!

Kalganova Eleonora and Michael Nadtochi are performing at a milonga in Denver, Colorado: Juan D'arienzo "Corazon De Artista.



Here you can read more about this couple, the stars on the Tango Salong sky!
http://www.theartoftango.club/

Francesca and Giorgio at 3Esquinas in Stockholm

This time Giorgio has come together with Francesca for a workshop weekend in town. This video is from the Sunday milonga called 3Esquinas. The workshop starts usually at 3.30 PM and the milonga at 5PM. Then we have four hours to spend on the floor!

This performance was not the only specialty for this Sunday but the event was visited by Los Rivarolas - Carlos y Maria - appreciated traditional tango dancers! Can you find them in the crowd?

        

I usually don't like this type of music which reminds me about concert but this video made something with me. The combination of movements and the music has had impact on me and I am geting curious. What steps could I find from this music landscape?

I liked the very most the roughly done sandwiches following the roughness in music beautifully! Click here if you want to get there directly https://youtu.be/8OrBB3MVgJU?t=2m31s


I filmed the milonga too but the rest of the songs I just enjoyed! You find them on FB.

If you want to know some more about Los Rivarolas!
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Rivarola

My dancing and training in end September

This autumn I will be training on Wednesday practica hosted by TangoNorte, the oldest tango community in Stockholm. Yes it looks empty but I was so busy all the evening so the fotos were taken when it was closed down . . . . 

On some Saturdays there is a Milonga Piccola for three hours dance (18-21). It is the most formal milonga here with role based seating (I am placed among the leaders). When you arrived one of the hosts will welcome you and suggest a seat available. (The Pictures: here we have the same situation - I was dancing all the time and the picture was taken in the very end of the event)

Sundays we have a matine milonga called 3Esquinas; usually 17-21PM. Maximo who is running the milonga organizes orchestra visits as well as teachers.

These and the restaurant Grammofon are the places I visit most often when at home!

Tuesdays at old Pele/ new Grammofon

The music starts at 7 PM on Tuesdays but it is not very crowded at the beginning so it is comfortable to test new figures before you throw them in to a steamy dance later in the evening! This is a restaurang so you can start the evening one hour earlier with a dinner for energy to get through the night!




This is how it looked som moments later!

Greetings from Stockholm, Sweden!

Asian winners of Tango de Pista

The winners are Geff and Elly for Tango de Pista!

Vimeo link! Click this line

(vimeolinks can not be displayed directly. please click the line above the picture)

Competitions were in Seoul,  South Korea


You find the results here for semifinals, finals and the winners in two categories.
http://koreatango.co.kr/2017ktc-english/2017-result/


https://vimeo.com/216547188

Contemporary Tango Festival 2016

The well known tango DJ  - Tanda of the week - Antti has other skills too!
It is nice to find out that tango is including so much more activities than ordinary dance festivals!







We maybe meet some where else this year!  Who knows?

Roxana Suares and her playfulness!

Lucky me to hit this video from Brussels Tango Festival again and I was moved near to tears by the  Edith Piaf vals she and Fernando Sanchez were dancing that year! Nearly painfully enjoyable!

Her excellent technique is always visible but the playfulness and musicality came to glow this time!

The year after, 2016,  she danced with Chicho and proved the same!

Enjoy you too!

https://youtu.be/VdtqoOVo5Kk
https://youtu.be/bzLouDyOnnc

A group performed milonga!

What a fantastic group perfomance of Sebastian Archaval & Roxana Suares and Neri Piliu & Yanina Quinones

So clearly  and well timed steps!

Gender role test

Is there a leader behind your traditional follower look?  Or would you do a wonderfull follower but you are dancin as a leader today?

Or are the leader/follower qualities following the male/female pattern?

Anyhow you can test yourself here!

  To the TEST!      

       

Are you smelling bad?

Every now and then there is a campaign for more showers to the dancers! I agree it is nice to dance with someone who smells good or just neutral but it seems that the shower maybe is not enough for some of us.

According to this article there is two types of sweat glands; one for the heat control and the other to remove some substances from the body. So it is not always a missing shower causing problem but the ingredients in your meal can attract a partner or make him/her to break a tanda. It seems that there are several ingredients to be blamed - onions, cauliflower, curry, meat and so on . . .

Here you have a link to the article! Click this line

Personally I have noticed that fenugreek made me smell different, clearly different!


http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/blogs/8-foods-that-make-you-smell-funky

Is tango cliquish?

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A question among others!

or should the question be like

 Is tango a more intimate dance than all the other dances?
you can be that intimate only with your near friends and therefor it is exclusionary


Other questions you can find via this link -  http://tangoclay.us/poll/

Korea Tango & Argentine group

There are benefits to train together with your peers! You learn about the musicality - more so with a good choreographer! How to relax in the moves so the the performance looks like improvised and still stay synchronized with your peers!

There were several groups in the competition but tis one I like a lot!




Tango Formation 2nd Round 2  2015 Korea Tango Championship


Chachirulo tango formation

Korean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBGMle69oE
Argentine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPY8O-c8LPI

Noelia and Carlitos — Their way into Tango...

They may tell themselves!





Here a really rough videofilm about their dancing!

The story: Leo and Eugenia in Stockholm!

Without a serious survey I still think that Leo and Eugenia are the couple who has done most performaces with a whole story placed into one song! Here you have one of them!

The newspaper game!