Category: News

Los Romanticos has been closed down

The restaurant/club ‘Los Romanticos’ in the center of Brussels is shutting down! The manager blames the brewery/owner, the brewery blames the manager, but in any case: no more practicas in Los Romanticos for the months to come!

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The milonga.be 2010 calendar is ready!

Some of you might have heard about it already, but the last weeks we’ve been preparing a special project: the milonga.be 2010 calendar. It is the first time we do this and we’re really excited. UPDATE: Now with a custom photo for December that you choose! Each month of 2010 features a beautiful picture that […]

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This weekend: Geraldine & Ezequiel in Antwerp & Liege

Geraldine Rojas and Ezequiel Paludi are in Belgium this weekend and they’re doing a little tour: Friday and Saturday they’re in Antwerp with Tango De Carmen, giving several workshops and performing at the Friday ‘Grand Milonga’ (Casa 32) and the Saturday salon in the Roma. Sunday takes them to Liège, where they’re teaching and performing […]

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Notice: Nosotros milonga @ Cité Culture is cancelled

Short message: the Nosotros milonga at Cité Culture this evening (Sat 21 Nov) is cancelled, due to a double booking at the venue! If you want to dance tonight, there’s Pasos de Brujas in Brugge and La Luna in Antwerp!

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Warning: there will be no (more) milonga at Dieweg

I just had some unpleasant news from Theresa: there was supposed to be a ‘Salon @ Dieweg’ on Sunday 29/11, but unfortunately it’s not going to happen. First the owners had tripled their price without prior notice and now they have just cancelled it. So not only will there not be a Dieweg on the […]

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When you get invited, you can say no

Pablo Veron, known from the movie ‘The Tango Lesson’ and a maestro who regularly visits Brussels, had a very unpleasant encounter recently with a Russian woman who wouldn’t take no for an answer. It was a Saturday night, I finished a whole day of workshops and I was exhausted because I took a plane at […]

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The ‘behave yourself’ dance floor

I came across an interesting concept in the London tango scene via Facebook: One of the most interesting developments has been the introduction of the ‘Tango de Salon room’ at 33 Portland Place (London). Apparently, it was started up a few weeks ago and the first two sessions were overseen by Adrian Costa. The aim […]

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Tango is part of the “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity”

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation aims to preserve a list of legacies under threat from global change. Argentina and Uruguay, where the dance originated, jointly submitted it. UNESCO said heritages seeking approval, transmit from “generation to generation” and give “communities and groups a feeling of identity”. It added that the dance “embodies […]

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More classes listed!

This is about the moment all the tango classes start again, and there are now over 150 classes to choose from in the courses overview. Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia, beginners or experts, in the week, in the weekend, check it out!

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Requested: tango dancers to play in a movie

The director Stéphane Giusti is shooting a movie with some tango scenes (in Cellule133a) and needs some dancers as extras and (stunt) doubles. What he needs is: Pour le téléfilm “Après toi” de Stéphane Giusti avec Aure Atika, Malik Zidi et Karina Testa et dont le tournage des scènes tango se passera à la Cellule133a […]

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NEW: Overview of tango courses in Belgium

I’ve put some time in the creation of a better database for tango courses in Belgium, just in time for the start of the new academic year. The list I had before was incomplete and outdated, and I started from scratch a week ago. I received already a lot of data from different teachers all […]

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Belgian couple in the Mundial de Tango

There was a Belgian couple from Gent in the Mundial de Tango 2009 in Buenos Aires. I hadn’t heard from the Belgian qualifications (two years ago it was called the Tango Marathon) and to be honest, I have never seen the dancers, Yannick Vanhove & Lieske De Vuyst, before either. Seems there must be an […]

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