Korea tango - historic and modern

Asia did participitate in the tango boom before the wwII. Here we have a Korean dancer singing a tango.  Seung-Hee Choi - A Garden in Italy 1936

Yuna Kim is not a dancer but a skater and she is sharing the underlying Korean musicality! You may watch the whole performance but if in a hurry check the link to the English speaking commentator who is extatic about her musicality! Starts at 3m10s

https://youtu.be/Vh-850kqJoE?t=3m10s

Here the whole performance - a tango hardly recognized as so . . .

Yuna Kim 2007 World Championships SP El Tango De Roxanne

(British EuroSport Ver. / Kor sub)

And at the end some actual Argentine tango dancing

(Rare!) Seung-Hee Choi - A Garden In Italy (1936)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5x8Ms3s2So

Yuna Kim 2007 World Championships SP El Tango De Roxanne
(British EuroSport Ver. / Kor sub)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh-850kqJoE

Popes birthday dance!

No he is not dancing but the enthusiastic crowd is doing it! Here is the evidence:

Another documentary is quite a lot longer if you are interested!  :)

Even leaders dance at 96

Most of the videos featuring an old tango dancer, a real old one, have been about the followers, about the great grannies!

Here we have a video showing that a leader can be in charge at 96!

96th Birthday Milonga for Alex Turney with Fernanda Ghi, Guillermo Merlo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6GweF98USo

The new layout!

As you see it looks different now! Hopefully it is easier to find the postings you are interested in!

Some of the old functions are hidden in the very right side edge! Just hover around there and they will pop up again like in this picture attached.

This dynamic layout provides us the possibility to explore the blog in different ways - YOU decide!!

Check the alternatives under the blog name  CARAMBA!

My personal favorite is the second alternative from the left, the light grey one - Flipcard!
You get a thump nail for every posting and this gives you a easy overall picture of the total blog content.

Try it!!  Which is your favorite!

Encuentro Notches de Invierno

Just after the New Year I participated in the Encuentro Milonguero Notches de Invierno in Raichenau, Austria. This was my second time and the event was nice and as well organized as ever!

I had my new camera with me producing videos only in H265 format and it seems to be a bigger problem to get good editing option for that . . .

Here anyhow some of the photos taken with the high speed option!  With other words the base for these GIF animations are ordinary photos taken in sequence.

The dancing one of the nights!

. . . and clearing the pista!

Address to the website
http://www.nochesdeinvierno.com/en/

Shoe storage you didn't think

I am reorganizing at home  - a smaaaal one room flat - and run across this!

You can also use it as a feet rest after an arduous milonga night!

The idea is at the end of this video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2xoemzJjmc

The knitting needles in new hands!

According to the stories from the early days of tango the mothers were following their daughters to the milonga! They were sitting there and watching what was going on and taking care of the young family members. I can see the virtual scenery where these mothers are sitting in the back ground, in the shadows of a milonga and some of them are knitting so the time was not waisted.

Yesterday evening I have seen the opposite!

The daughter was sitting in the milonga sofa and knitting! She was knitting and meanwhile her mother took the tandas!

A giant shoe building!

No one mentioned the word tango in the article below about the Church in Taiwan but there  m u s t  be some energetic followers behind this building!

Your find the BBC article via the link below

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35320373

Sundays at 3Esquinas

We have a very popular Sunday late afternoon milonga called 3Esquinas with different DJs.
My exceptional Saturday mood had calmed down but the dancing was still ok. The thing not ok was the loud volume preferred by the DJ and organizer!

I have on my phone a basic type of decibel indicator and the level for this night was constantly over 80db and many times 85db.

I did talk to the dj and he even came to the pista for a check and YES! he turned the volume down for a while but it did creep upwards again quite soon.

The organizer loves chacarera and every now and then there is a workshop and one or two dance options during the following milonga!

If you are interested to have a healthy music volume try to download an app for your mobile. When you can show the actual noise level in the room it is easier to discuss - maybe the only option - and to find a sound level below the harmful one.

(Today the only milonga (among the few I am visiting regularly) where they keep the sound level on a nice level is the RuntRunt milonga! )

The mystery of changed mood

Last weekend I started my Saturday round with very low expectations similar to the grey November weather outside. The first stop was Comme il faut - a monthly milonga with strict traditional setup - where I usually have good tandas. But not this time - I just couldn't get in to right mood, just couldn't get into the music or connect to the followers. Only the most experienced followers could reach to me at the bottom of this evening!

I left the place around 9PM to get to my second stop. It was a walk in the darkness.

At arrival I decided to fulfill my promise to dance some tandas and then go home. I started the tanda with my longtime partner and after a half tanda we nearly fell down when she suddenly went to an unleaded sideways volgada in a direction where I had just a fraction of possibility to support her.

But this was the start signal for an amazing night!

After that our bodies started to cooperate seamlessly in a amazing way. Her movements have never been so relaxed and exact! My body must have moved in a similar way because we got deep into an exalted flow and you can not reach there alone but both need to be in the same mood!

We did all the tandas we could manage before we noticed the first signs of fatigue. I danced just one more tanda and left for home. Such a highly memorable night!

           

 


Milonga RuntRunt








RuntRunt is also the only milonga keeping the ear-friendly volume!
I made some metering in milongas I visited during last 7 days and it is a huge advantage to be able to dance without earplugs!

Eleonora Kalganova Women's Technique 5

When you see her dancing you will remember her!

The footwork is fantastic and I understand why after seeing her exercise. They differ from other videos because the movements are so small that you are actually able to apply this on your dance, and use on the pista!

Enjoy!





Here you have a walz from September this year!

Sebastian Arce Mariana Montes interview subtitled

My top favorite, elegant artists in tango!

In this video Mariana is talking a lot also :) You will hear about the background for moving to Europe and their experiences while here.

TangoTalks - your traveling companion

Sometimes I feel that just listening the music and dancing is not enough. I have allways loved to study and my brain is often hungry wanting to know some theoretical explanations or stories about deeper personal experiences in tango.

Now I put my hope on TangoTalks. This website presents one hour long interviews with tango personalities.

I found this site for not a long time ago so I do not know how it will be working for me but I am traveling some days in the future and have a plan to listen to these episodes on the go.

Click this line to land the site!

http://reportango.net/RT/TangoTalks.html

a Milonga practica

I was asked to lead a milonga practica at Practica Humilde last Thursday and I did!

It was a long time since last practica - I was teaching mostly during the years 2005-2010 - so there was a wide gap of pure dancing until today. During these dancing years I have changed my perspective quite a lot and got some more understanding for mechanisms in movements.

The main issue was how slowly I answered to questions which were not on the theme of the day. I needed to recall my earlier ideas, check what I had learned during the last five years and then put together my answer: nothing ready from the shelves!

You can activate the Facebook video by clicking this very line!

Facebook posting
https://www.facebook.com/irina.gebuhr/videos/o.929095373830325/10201257705120984/?type=2&theater

Alejandra Mantiñan & Gabriel Missè

She has the fastest feet I have seen on the youtube pistas!  . . . . and as you see he is not running behind!

This must be filmed for some years ago because the song Pavadita has been blocked out from the tango world for too long!  It was so fun when it started to pop up on playlists here and there. That was the music I learned to dance to! One of the early musicality lessons was about to respect the 3 (?) stops build in here - Gabriel and Alejandra did it well!  :) Don't you agree?

Blanquita 90 years is performing!

This is an open posting at Facebook so I suppose you are able to see it even without an account!

In the text they call the lady for Blanquita and state her to be 90 years and still dancing well.

WONDERFUL!

Click this line to get a free ride to facebook and the experience!

I think the same lady is dancing socially at Sueño Porteño

FB link
https://www.facebook.com/100004031064184/videos/vb.100004031064184/578430015634695/?type=2&theater

Youtube link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-saU4a85whI

Chicho & Juana and Ruben & Sabrina are experimenting

I can think these talented dancers did discus prior the performance what moves could be possible and maybe they tested some. But I definitely think that these performances are mainly improvised and show their ability to adapt to the others participating to a specific scene.

This is the first time ever I see Chicho to follow!

Tango Rap "Follow Through" and the dancers

THIS was something different!  The first time I hear rap and see people dancing to it!

What do you think?  Can the spoken rhythms be as addictive as the instrumental ones?

Dispari workshop weekend 2015

It was September and time for a Dispari workshop!

To live at the edge of Europe restricts your possibilities to keep up continuous contact with your teachers. That is the case here. I meet Disparis once a year and I need to be prepared for these hours so I can catch the skill and information as well as possible! The follower who was able to take the workshops with me had not met Disparis earlier so we decided to come together and rehearse prior the weekend. Three times we made it with intense work during some hours, rehearsing all the material I knew! I met also one of the followers on an earlier workshop to rehearse all the stuff once again.

During the weekend we mostly worked on our caminata and added some rhythmic variations on top of it.

The most interesting new detail was the instruction to pause until the next couple is advancing. This is the only occasion I can recall where the teachers are training us to activate habits promoting the synchronization of an entire pista.

This is the traditional group photo and it includes nearly all of us but the two couples who were in a hurry after the long hours in the workshops!

I have also collected some moments to a video collage you can enjoy at youtube! Two days in 2 minutes!

How do we make it as intuitive dancers?

Speech at Stallet in Stockholm
The main thema was the fact that the educated and intuitive dancers have different methods to learn and solve difficulties for example in their step/music connection. In a milonga the dancing mode is the same for both groups. (the interwiew was in Swedish and not in the list.)

Musicality In Dance: What Is It? Can It Be Taught?
http://www.danceadvantage.net/musicality-in-dance/

Educated vs intuitive knowledge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge

Vals: How does it look like when the dancers and music loose the connection sometimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2caLFBid0pg

The development of an intuitive dancer

http://leadingladyl.blogspot.se/2012/08/my-odd-musicality.html
http://leadingladyl.blogspot.se/2014/04/feeling-of-musical-timing.html

Training
http://leadingladyl.blogspot.se/2014/04/musicality-via-feelings-and-emotions.html
(more options in the end of link list)

Checking the changes
http://leadingladyl.blogspot.se/2014/04/my-need-to-fit-steps-and-sounds.html

Musicality by others

http://leadingladyl.blogspot.se/2014/05/according-to-my-unscientific-opinion.html

The Pista becomes musical - it starts to dance

Kehl  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXBmuh3De24

Performers 

Today they have a strong contact with music          
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB9yuW6jZP4

Sometimes they release a tornado of ganchos as here around 3.20 - is it ok?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbsBg-Ek57o

About Training

http://offpistaaction.blogspot.se/2012/09/hearing-and-moving.html

http://offpistaaction.blogspot.se/2012/08/august-training.html


Murat Erdemsels Indio Manso animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A6X49jA7M0



Joaquin Amenabar - TANGO Let's dance to the music! 
/http://joaquinamenabar.com/

. . . . .and afterwards we were dancing!

Links in Swedish


Barnets tidig musikalisk utveckling, s 11
https://dspace.mah.se/bitstream/handle/2043/7607/Examensarb09.pdf?sequence=1

Må bättre med MUSIK
Eva Bojner Horwitz & Gunilla Bojner