2008 September Archive at Milonga

Monthly Archive for September, 2008

Photos: Milonga @ Kiosk #6

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on September 28, 2008

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It was the last edition of this season, and what an edition it was. The one with the best weather, the most dancers, the most smiles and the most surprises for Dirk. He got lots of people showing up in his tango-battle-colours red & black, he got to hand out roses to his partners, he got cake and he got hundreds of kisses from dozens of women.

I also invited some photographer friends to come and take pictures and I am very happy with the beautiful pictures they’ve taken. This is a picture by Legasse Photo, who brought an impressive analog camera and took some great shots with them:

Bart Azare took pictures of more than just faces:

And Barbara Boie clearly has an eye for nice abrazos:

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This Saturday: last Kiosque of the season

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Peter

on September 24, 2008

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You’re all invited to join us in the last, and most special, Milonga @ Kiosque of this season. There will be beautiful people, there will be great music and good wine, there will be nice weather (prediction: 19° and sunny) and there will be a special performance of El Flaco Dany, milonguero from Buenos Aires. It will also be one of the last Belgian milongas of Dirk, before he goes and moves to Buenos Aires for six months. So there’s really no excuse to miss this one!

Tango anecdote: Alberto Castillo

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Peter

on September 16, 2008

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Inspired by a story Lucio told me last weekend: the story of Alberto Castillo, famous tango singer, actor but also a practicing gynaecologist, until eventually he had to stop:

(…) So in the afternoons, doctor Alberto Salvador De Lucca left his “consulting room for ladies” and ran to the radio to turn into the singer Alberto Castillo. There were complications when in the waiting room of his consulting room there was no more space for so many women, mostly, young. There was an explanation: the singer had an incredible appeal on the weaker sex and as news had spread that he was a gynecologist, those who found out where his consulting room was, run to be treated by him. Castillo remembered the story which revealed the never ending flow of ladies into his consulting room: «Are you ready, madam?», he asked to a patient that was undressing behind a folding screen, and she answered not at all embarrassed: «I am, doctor. And you?»
«Those insinuations did not please much», he confessed, and finally he gave up the medical profession to fully devote himself to singing.
(via todotango.com)

Photos: Milonga @ Kiosk #5

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Peter

on September 15, 2008

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Weather wasn’t that bad, but expectation of rain did prevent a bunch of people of coming. The others had a sweater, a scarf and lots of space for dancing. And no, it did not rain once.
Next Kiosque on Sept 27 is the last one for this year, so don’t miss it!

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Photos: Maryline & Vincent @ Hermalle

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Peter

on September 1, 2008

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Maryline & Vincent gave a workshop this weekend in Hermalle-sous-Huy, organized by the Cultural Center of Engis, for the Dance Convention. Afterwards, there was a short afternoon milonga, and they gave a demonstration. Since Vincent will be concentrating on non-tango activities for a while, it was certainly a special occasion. Some impressions: