Archive for the ‘Tango’ Category
Friday, August 12th, 2011
Tango is taken seriously in Buenos Aires.
Over 350,000 people will come out to watch about 400 couples compete in this year's World Tango Championships beginning next week in Argentina's capital, organizers said Wednesday.
More than 500 artists from all over the world will also participate in the festival that starts Tuesday ...
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Award-winning adventure travel company, Adventure Life, has unveiled a flexible 8 day/7 night Buenos Aires Tango Festival itinerary that is being offered anytime during the August 12-30, 2011 festival. An estimated 400,000 festival-goers from Argentina and abroad are expected to attend the festival, during which time melancholic lyrics and rhythms ...
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Friday, June 24th, 2011
Where would you take a loved one for an anniversary or other special occasion?
Tomo 1, a Buenos Aires classic, where food is the main focus -- far from the artifice of fashion and modernity. A comfortable environment, it's serious and without fanfare and it has become a special place for ...
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
A be-suited middle-aged gentleman, his hair glistening in a helmet of lacquer, is glued sweaty cheek-to-cheek with a girl years younger, wearing glamorous heels and a floaty dress.
She twirls away. He yanks her back, then clasps her ever more tightly. A doomed relationship. But the crowd loves it. The wailing ...
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
The origin of the Tango, probably one of the most famous dances in the world, is not clear. Musical historians argue that it could come from the relentless rhythms that the African slaves beat on their drums (known as tan-go), or possibly the popular music of the pampas (flatlands) that ...
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
During these financially-challenging times a trip to Argentina may not be in your budget, but this week you are in luck. The music, dance and culture of Buenos Aires are coming to Tucson. From March 2-7, 2011 Tucsonans can get their fill of the sensuous dance and romantic music at ...
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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
It is known as the three-minute love affair. You dance it with your heart pressed to your partner's. It is spontaneous and unchoreographed. A process of resisting and yielding. A sensual meander of feet around feet. Human dressage.
Depending, of course, on who is doing it. My husband believes that real ...
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Considered Argentina's gift to the world, tango is one of the most alluring and exciting dance forms, evoking sensuality and intrigue, lust, raw energy and knife-edge precision. The Pittsburgh Dance Council presents the Tango Fire dance company from Buenos Aires, Argentina in the Pittsburgh premiere of Tango Inferno, on Saturday, ...
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Thursday, January 6th, 2011
El Paso, TX
A dance with origins on the estuary separating Argentina and Uruguay makes its way to El Paso on Sunday. The dance is tango, of course, and “Tango Buenos Aires,” a show that’s 10 Argentinean dancers strong, comes courtesy Juanita Vasquez of El Paso’s Lola Productions.
“Tango is a union, ...
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Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Book before 31 march 2011 and save $200
Have you ever dreamt of learning the Argentine tango from the country’s premier tango masters? Unique Group Travel has released a special It Takes Two To Tango program priced at AUD $2,299.00 for lovers or tangueros of the dance who yearn to embrace ...
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