Photos: Au cafe du Port

The musicians of the Bruxelles Aires Tango Orchestra, together with a number of tango dancers and actors, created the performance ‘Au cafe du port’ that they just showed 6 times in a row, and every evening was sold out. Live music, live dancing and a delightful little story, all set in an imaginary Buenos Aires […]

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Start rehearsing: Tango Libre flash mob

(Via Le Soir) The movie Tango Libre is opening on the Belgian screens and to celebrate the premiere, there is a tango flash mob and you’re all invited to participate but you have to rehearse the steps! Rachid, what are the steps? The flash mob event takes place just before the avant-premiere in BOZAR: Wednesday […]

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Dance in the sea: Milonga Del Mar

Milonga del Mar, for the first time ever on 7 Oct, will be unique in several ways: first of all, it’s on the pier of Blankenberge, surrounded by the North Sea; secondly, it’s with the maestros Bruno & Mariangeles, and finally: it’s a role-balanced milonga: you always need to register with 1 leader and 1 […]

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Photos: Tango Addiction Festival @ Mons

Last weekend was the first edition of the Tango Addiction Festival in Mons, Belgium. Nicolas set it up very ambitiously with 3 invited couples and 5 days of workshops, afternoon, evening and after-milongas. Some of those events were hard to fill, since Mons is quite far away from the bigger tango cities, and the festival […]

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This weekend: Tango Folies

This weekend there will be a series of workshops, presentations and a milonga under the flag of “Tango Folies”, to celebrate the retirement of Fedor Villafane. If you have been dancing for less than 10 years, this name might not ring a bell, but Fedor has played an important role in the development of tango […]

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Photos: Terra Tango @ Gent

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 […]

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Next week: Tango Addiction Festival in Mons!

Next 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 […]

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Tango Libre wins in Venice

Last 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.

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Photos: Milonga Kiosque “NATURE”

We 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.

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Updated: the list of tango courses in Belgium

For 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. […]

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This Saturday: Milonga @ Kiosque “NATURE”

This 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.

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Announced: Terra Tango, Sept 2012

With 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 […]

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