I just finished reading The Church of Tango: A Memoir. It was perfect. I am familiar with the author, Cherie Magnus, from her blog Tango Cherie. I have always enjoyed reading about her experiences as an expat living, dancing, and teaching tango in Buenos Aires. I heard about her book when it came out, but I … Continue reading Recommended Reading: The Church of Tango
A couple of weeks ago, a friend was visiting Köln and invited me to join him for a tango workshop and milonga there. He also promised pizza beforehand. It was a Friday night, I was alone for the weekend, and he told me exactly what bus and tram to take to get there. I said … Continue reading Public Transit & Tango Just Don’t Mix
Even though I learned tango in southern California, we never had a regular outdoor milonga there. There was a milonga held a few times on the San Diego Bay, but it didn’t last. There’s something lovely about dancing outdoors with the sun and the ocean breeze: So I find it kind of entertaining that here … Continue reading Outdoor Tango
As a tango dancer in the U.S., I mainly experienced three styles: nuevo/open embrace, salon/V embrace, milonguera/close embrace. There is a lot of fluidity between these styles (and contention about how they are named and stereotyped), but that is the rough classification I would use. I consider myself mainly a close embrace dancer. This is … Continue reading The In-Between Tango Embrace
Between studying German and making arrangements for the move, I have been daydreaming about life in Aachen. For the past 4.5 years, Argentine tango has been a big part of my life. (At one point I was dancing 5 days a week!) So, of course, tango has been on my mind. Thankfully, there is a … Continue reading Argentine Tango in Germany
