Comments for Milonga - Tango in Belgium

Comment on Most popular milonga.be photo of 2011 by Tadas

Tadas — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:20:01 +0000

In my humble personal opnion cabeceo is one of the most attractive aspects of tango. If you’re able to capture that moment of extreeme intensity when its seems as you can cut the air with a knife you should, without a doubt, do it.

Comment on Video: marathon del chocolate by Luigi Rossi

Luigi Rossi — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:10:46 +0000

Formidable. Vraiment beau. Je suis en vacance à la mer mais en regardant le video j’ai regretté de ne pas etre à Bruxelles. Félicitations

Luigi

Comment on Video: marathon del chocolate by Gallez Odette

Gallez Odette — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:25:55 +0000

Magnifique vidéo…
trop court !

Comment on Tangauchos in Belgium by Markus

Markus — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:39:30 +0000

How do we get the tickets; do we have to fetch them somewhere?

Comment on Tangauchos in Belgium by Sam

Sam — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:51:04 +0000

oups… this one is the good one!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pforret/3411123643/in/set-72157616341242902

Comment on Tangauchos in Belgium by Peter

Peter — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:49:01 +0000

Markus: yes
Patricia: yes
Florentina: yes
Sam: that is a Mariano-look-a-like, it’s not him. Try again!

Comment on Tangauchos in Belgium by Patricia

Patricia — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:46:43 +0000

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pforret/3411485148/in/set-72157616341242902

Comment on Tangauchos in Belgium by Florentina

Florentina — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:32:18 +0000

j’ai trouvé!!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pforret/3411931908/in/set-72157616341242902

Florentina

Comment on Tangauchos in Belgium by Sam

Sam — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:27:11 +0000

here you are sir ))

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pforret/3407723795/in/set-72157616341242902

Comment on Tangauchos in Belgium by Markus

Markus — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:23:30 +0000

OK, here comes the link to a picture of Mariano Galeano:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pforret/3408535446/in/set-72157616341242902/

Recognise him?

Comment on Buying tango shoes by Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:48:38 +0000

Lol, what you wrote is so true. Having so many pairs of shoes goes beyond just a simple “need” as far as dancing. Accessorizing is something that women are loved for . My particular favorite brand out of all of the shoes on this page would be the Neo-Tango, they are just lovely!

Comment on Belgian couple in the Mundial de Tango by Janis Kenyon

Janis Kenyon — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:43:10 +0000

It’s common knowledge in Buenos Aires that the World Cup of tango (formerly Campeonato Mundial de Tango) is arranged every year. Those couples who have “paid their dues” by studying, teaching, and performing with the members of the Asociacion de Maestros, Bailarines y Coreografos de Tango Argentino are acknowledged. It’s impossible for a foreign couple to arrive in BsAs without being seen by the judges and win the competition. The winners are “selected” by the judges to launch the careers of promising performers who want to present themselves as salon dancers. They don’t have the skills to improvise tango on a social dance floor, so they continue to teach choreography around the world. Tango is a business for them. The world tango competition winners have been arranged since the first year. The city competition is the same. The prize money has increased substantially, but the number of participants has dropped.

I hope that foreigners have realized they don’t have a chance at winning unless they host the festival director at a local festival like Japan did in 2009 when a Japanese couple won the world salon competition. Judges must agree on who will be chosen to win the title. Tallying the points has no relevance. It’s all about who you know, not how you dance.

It is unfortunate that couples come to Buenos Aires to represent their countries with the hopes of bringing home a title. The judges know who will win before the competition begins. It’s not an unbiased competition at all. It’s the same in most international dance competitions. It’s about how well the judges know you.

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Comment on Announcing: Marathon del Chocolate in August by Sidar Ok

Sidar Ok — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:18:17 +0000

Looking forward to it !

Comment on Photos: Pianofabriek, Feb 2009 by Carolien Jongbloed

Carolien Jongbloed — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 18:43:23 +0000

Beste mensen,

Deze avond op 6 maart ben ik met Dirk Wouters komen dansen.
Tot mijn grote spijt heb ik mijn dansschoenen vergeten mee te nemen. Het is een blauwe stoffen bloemenzak met zwarte gesloten schoenen. Dirk wouters volgt bij u les. Is het mogelijk deze zak indien gevonden aan hem te bezorgen?
Met vriendelijke dank.
Carolien Jongbloed, info@carolienjongbloed.be

Comment on Buying tango shoes by Argentina Baila

Argentina Baila — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:30:26 +0000

We are an Argentine Tango shoes company with more of ten years in the local market, in this opportunity we would like to introduce our Catalogue 2011.
All our products are made by hand and using leather of first quality, please ask for our catalogue by our website or by mail at ventas@argentinabaila.com

Comment on Announced: Alejandro Ziegler Quartet – free tickets to win! by Peter

Peter — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:58:14 +0000

And the winners for tonight’s milonga are:

Kamila Xenie, Sebastián, Philippe & Bea!

Thanks for the anecdotes!

Comment on Announced: Alejandro Ziegler Quartet – free tickets to win! by bea

bea — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:23:08 +0000

maybe it’s too late but anyway…
an echo to the first story – this one is about the leader who never remembers the follower, even after 4 times dancing together. Yes, some months passed by in between but still…
and then suddenly, at the 5th time dancing together, a “declic” in his mind? Because, after this one, the memory became better. Thanks to the new shoes maybe? Who knows what’s on a man’s mind …

Comment on Announced: Alejandro Ziegler Quartet – free tickets to win! by Philippe

Philippe — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:11:39 +0000

Some years ago in Buenos-Aires, i was taking a private class with Javier when he told me a funny anecdote about a russian guy who was asking him to explain a lot of technical details about the right way to do a giro and which leg he had to use first when beginning the turn.
Javier was astonished and tought it was a really strange question…so this is what he answered to him :
“When you are badly sick and you need to go urgently to the toilet, do you first ask yourself which leg you have to use first to go to the toilet door in your back or do you simply go there as fast as you can ? So, it is the same with tango: be natural, don’t think and go where you have decided to go”
This is one of Javier’s funniest ways of teaching tango… but it is so true…

Comment on Announced: Alejandro Ziegler Quartet – free tickets to win! by Sebastian Gonzalez

Sebastian Gonzalez — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:47:54 +0000

Years before I even knew I would dance tango one day, I went to the Cellule by invitation of a friend who used to dance there. She danced the whole night through, and I shared the evening with her during her pauses, and with another friend who came along and didn’t dance either. We talked and watched the dancing over a few beers. It was my very first time at a milonga, and I was amazed to see this kind of hidden place, in which incredibly good dancers got carried away at the pace of this beautiful music from other times, yet they were all quite young.

At one moment I went to fetch a couple more beers for me and my friend. On my way back to our table, I saw a girl looking at me intently in the eye. Her gaze was fixed, without hesitation. And she was beautiful… very much so. It lasted for just a couple seconds, as I went by with with the drinks in my hands. I never had this kind of gaze before from such a woman. I wondered what it was that provoked this unexpected interest. I wasn’t wearing anything special, nor did I behave in a particular conspicuous way. As I was not used to it, this brief instant got imprinted in my memory. Only years after I understood, when I started to learn tango lessons. When my teacher from Buenos Aires told me about the milonga codes, I understood then that she simply wanted to dance. What a lost opportunity! Never again have I seen a woman using this code in a milonga, at least not so clearly as she did.