I went ’cause I had nothing on

DanceToday I Went ’cause I had n

DanceToday I Went ’cause I had n

It was going to be an unusual weekend from the outset. The plan was to travel from the UK through Europe by car – a nice sporty number with an open roof – and plan the stops according to the tango milongas on the way.

The highlight was to be Sunday, September 1: a party that was a whole different experience for everybody involved. The first of its kind – daring, unique – in which participants bare everything to each other. Yes, we were going to the first ever Naked Tango Milonga.

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To market, to market

Dance Today - To Market, to market

Dance Today – To Market, to market

In times of crisis many of us might wonder: what if I re-invent myself? What do I love doing? Perhaps our love for dancing might make us look in that direction as a possible way to enhance our lives. Maral Kojayan and Mariano Laplume are a pair of young dancers who are living just such a dream, though, as they explain, it is not always easy to find a balance between dance and business.

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Candombe Tango’s African Flavour

Dance Today - Candombe Tango's African FlavourDec09

Dance Today – Candombe Tango’s African FlavourDec09

A testimony to the African roots of Tango, Candombe’s warm and upbeat rhythm gives an earthy feel to this beautiful dance. It has a drum-based musical style based on Bantu African drumming and first appeared in Uruguay, Montevideo in the 18th century. It was brought to the shores of the Río de la Plata (which translates as River Plate) by Africans who arrived in this Hispanic “New World” as slaves and it’s believed that the Candombe rhythm is the basis for all black dances of the time.

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Putting Canchengue on the Map

DanceToday - Putting Canchengue on the map Oct09

DanceToday – Putting Canchengue on the map Oct09

Geny Caloisi explains why canchengue is the essence of the tango now declared by UNESCO as part of the world’s cultural heritage.

UNESCO has declared tango music and dance “part of the world’s cultural heritage”. But there is, perhaps, a secret part of tango that has not been acknowledged. Argentines know that there are different types of tango. Show tango has bigger moves, more kicking and a less predictable use of the floor than you’d expect for exhibitions, salon tango has the subtlety of moves and consideration you’d expect when many people are on the dance floor at the same time and then there’s canchengue – a type of tango it’s quite difficult to appreciate without a bit of a background in Argentine history and culture.

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