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!

Encuentros are more safe

First time on an ordinary milonga this term and I fell to my knees in front of the follower!  (No living thing was harmed in the prosess!)

On the other hand I have managed 3 encuentro milongas in same pants without any problem. I think my feet are working differently in these two types of milongas! At an encuentro I never have had two feet in same leg . . . hmmm

(they are very wide  - 95 cm O )

At Philippines even children dance better than me

How old could they be?  Ten or twelve years?

But what a waltz these kids are showing us!

The choreography is fantastic too!
I will definitely pick some moves from it for private use! :)

They are working really hard for a good dance in the Asia! Check this choreography drill for Kyle!

Kyle Philippe & Zoe at Resorts World Manila - Argentine Tango Vals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnHtADbBsA0

Kyle Philippe - Argentine Tango - Milongahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_dLRYBZ36I

Tango from the skies!

This is a tango event organized by my home community!  One tango dancer was flying over on warm-air-baloon filming this video. It seems to be in the beginning of the evening so there is still only few dancers but the number of white chairs shows the expectations for this summer evening!

This is a facebook video so I cannot embed it here but if you click the link below you can get the whole thing with sound too! (It was posted 27th of July 2016)

HERE please!

Shanghai Festival

During last weekend they have been dancing in Shanghai! This is the 6th festival and the first time I *participated* - I did it virtually via a live link provided by my Korean Facebook friend. With other words I was sitting on my soffa at home watching the live link showing me the performances and later on the dancing!  All that without any delay!! The time difference is working for me because the performances were some time after the midnight but it was 6 or 7 PM here in Nordic so I could watch them simultaneously with my friends in Shanghai.

The live fb window looks like this with a red eye sybol and a number for the onlookers.

I cannot link any fb videos directly here you get just some links in public mode. 

Thanks 정연도 for the videos!

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009788375964
(I didn't find any method to link individual videos but with this link you come to his fb profile and can find several performances and beautiful dance crowd videos there around the weekend 24.07.2016)

The organizers have exposed the female dancers most! In the program you can find Guillermina Quiroga, Stella Missé and Alejandra Gutty highlighted and their partners are presented further in to the site.

Here some lines about the organizers presented on the page:

TangoBang, started 2008, has been known the best Tango School and Organizers in Shanghai. Matias Sotto (Argentina) and Vivian Yeh (Taiwan) the two Tango Fanatics that have more than 10 years teaching and dancing experience met in Buenos Aires and are giving Tango lessons and organizing milongas together in regular basic, 5 days a week in Shanghai.

TangoBang has been working closly with Argentina Counsulate to introduce the Tango Culture to Shanghai. World Known Tango Masters have been brought from Buenos Aires for Tango Workshop and shows included: Geraldin Rojas y Ezequiel Paludi, Damian Essell y Nancy Louzan, Pablo Giorgini y Noelia Coletti, Fabian Peralta y Virginia Pandolfi, Analia Carreño y Luis Ramirez, Martin Maldonado y Maurizio Ghella. During 2010 Shanghai EXPO, the two parties hosted several successful Tango events in Argentina Pavilion, including the first ever milonga in EXPO, that brought Argentina Tango to Shanghai, China, and the visitors from all over the world.

In 2011, TangoBang successfully hosted the 1st Shanghai International Tango Festival. Tangueros around the world joined the festival was impressed by the passion and the standard of dance in Shanghai.

I have found no videos from the Festival 2016 so I post one from last year but I promise to update as soon as I get to know a new one!

Below you will find the organizers, Mattias and Vivian, performing!

If you want to check the site please follow the link below!
http://www.tangobang.cn/shanghai-tango-festival/?view=6#/en/11402

SketchUp your dream shoes!

Here you have a tool to sketch up your dream shoes!







The free Google Sketchup tool can help you to visualize even your other dreams!

Alejandra y Aoniken the most touching

They are thr most touching couple for me thesee days!
Often times I am near the tears through the video and I watch it again and again. Not happening with any other couple!

Her body moves like a floating whiplash to music and he seems to offer the adventurous enough interpretation of the music for her!

Vibrating music!

These nobs were vibrating to music! 

 It was a strange experience and I returned every now and then to feel 

how a specific song or cortina feels to my hands.

Try it!  I am sure you will find different physical objects vibrating to your favorite music!

At a shoe shop in Lillehammer

A shoe shop needs a proper piece of furniture!! Don't you agree?!

Encuentro in Lillehammer!

The Saturday afternoon milonga in Lillehammer, Norway was the most crowded one! 

I enjoyed it deeply!!    I really felt I was dancing

In the same night we lost a significant number of dancers to TV  

an important football game was more interesting for many participants!  

(this goes totally beyond my understanding . . . .)

The afternoon situation!

(what is going on with this photo???  we seems to be streched vertically??)

                                                     . . . . and the dizzy feeling of dancing in a crowd!

Some were enjoying the cortias too!!

Argentine Tango Documentary 1993-94

They still post some old videos you don't have seen yet!

Foxtrot suitable as a milonga?

The following discussion was if this was a foxtrot or quick step and if it could be danced as a milonga

What do you think? Could this be a good break during a loooooong  tangonight?

Tango ads with local flavour

Here two tango advertisement from the Finnish tango community!

The first one has it's connection to sauna - a very central concept in the Finnish everyday life - here it gets it's place on a  marathon ad. I think it is quite natural  this marathon will be warm, very warm!

The second one is about the REAL men in Finland!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1533288880324937/
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208944079897053&set=a.2326296554678.2134386.1167596991&type=3&theater

If you think high heels are complicated; Try this!

If you think high heels do complicate your dancing!  What about this?!

Revealing your dancing level?

According to this news clip the body temperature pattern can reveale if you are in love. The consequensies for a couple could be devastating if a free test will be available in future. There could be terrifying options for bodies which are functioning significantly different and test results will segregate them to a lonely life.

On the other hand there could be different use for this kind of checks! For example there maybe is a difference in temperature when you are in a PRACTICA mode and your brain is monitoring your movements and planning the coming steps compared to when your are actually dancing. I think that in the DANCING mode your brain is in a different state and the emotions are more active, you feel your dance. This could produce a different thermographic pattern, noticable in an external device. It could reveal at what level your dancing shifts back to practica level, when you need to think how to dance. This shift is different for different dancers and it goes together with the skil level. The more skilled couple the later the shift comes!

So in the future the organicer asks you to dance, points her mobile phone at you and places you to level x on the workshop weekend!

Here you have the link to the love version of the body thermography test:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/thermographic-cameras-can-tell-if-youre-in-love/vi-BBtunXP?ocid=spartandhp