Terra Tango opened last weekend in the Capitole in Ghent. The tango show was created by Vincent Morelle and featured 8 dancers and the excellent Cuarteto SolTango. We saw a lot of excellent dancing, inspired by Vincent & Maryline’s theatrical style, with interesting elements like back screen projection and acrobatics. I took some pictures from […]
Read MoreNext week Thursday starts Wallonia’s first tango festival: Tango Addiction festival in Mons. Organized by Nicolas Surra and his team, the festival features a lot of big names like Diego “El Pajaro” Riemer and Maria Belen Giachello, Yanick Wyler and Eugenia Parrilla, Dario Da Silva & Claire Vivo, Solo Tango Orchestra, Kay Sleking, and a […]
Read MoreLast year a lot of Belgian dancers went to Poland to participate in a movie shoot. That movie, Tango Libre by Belgian director Frédéric Fonteyne, will be released in the cinema later this year, but is now doing the tour of the film festivals and has just won the SPECIAL ORIZZONTI JURY PRIZE in Venice.
Read MoreWe ended the summer Kiosque milongas in style: the weather was excellent, the tunes were delicious and we concluded with abundant fireworks above the trees. Technically we didn’t actually do the fireworks ourselves, but you have to admit the timing was excellent.
Read MoreFor the last two years I have been building a comprehensive list of tango courses available in Belgium. The updates for the new season 2012/2013 have been processed and will allow you to find a course that fits your needs. In total: more than 250 tango courses in over 60 schools all over the country. […]
Read MoreThis Saturday is the last of the Kiosque milongas of this summer. To celebrate this privilege of dancing between the trees and under the sun, let’s be inspired by Nature when we dress up. Flower dresses, animal prints, green, brown, camouflage, leaves and trees, whatever you fancy.
Read MoreWith a suitcase of misery at their feet, an immigrant from the mainland dreamt of a new departure, a new start. Through a century of tango music, the Soltango quartet paints its own universes. Torn between the extremes of sorrow and longing, of resignation and rage, of passion and love, the dream reveals itself; it […]
Read MoreLast Saturday was by far the sunniest Kiosque of the last couple of years. A nice crowd of dancers came to enjoy it, resulting in lots of sunglasses, flip-flops and excessive thirst. Belgium got some summer after all.
Read MoreThis weekend announces itself to be spectacular, so come and dance in the sun at the Kiosque! The dress code (if you feel like playing a bit) is: * tongs/flip-flops (for arriving, maybe for dancing) * white t-shirt (crazy slogans allowed) * sunglasses (for dancing italian style) Around 8pm we will give a bottle to […]
Read MoreSweet Tango Family! We are very happy to invite you to chocolate Brussels/Belgium where we are starting our Marathon del Chocolate 2nd edition. The series of sweet events starts with the Premarathon Milonga on Thursday, and ends with the afterparty on Sunday. Everybody is welcome at both milongas, no registration is needed, just come and […]
Read Morewww.facebook.com/events/419119928140267/ On Saturday 28 July, there is an extra Milonga @ Kiosque. Same place (Warandepark/Parc de Bruxelles), same time (6pm-11pm), almost same people (fully organized by Jens-Ingo & Benedicte). Enjoy!
Read MoreThere are a lot of people from abroad coming for the Marathon del Chocolate in August, and some of those are still looking for a place to stay with another tanguero/tanguera. For this purpose, there is now a special FB group: Tango Couches! https://www.facebook.com/groups/housing.chocolate2012/ Here people from outside Brussels can post their request for a […]
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