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Tangoforeningen i Køge har en månedlig milonga “Tangonoche” og en månedlig practica.
Rammen om foreningens arrangementer er Musikcaféen på Teaterbygningen i Køge, kun 3 minutters gang fra Køge station.
Tangonoche er åben for alle tangointeresserede.
Se vidoer fra den 20/08/2010 med show fra Annette og [...]

Today I found this interesting clip in the internet:
“BBC news | Tango recordings go digital”.
The musical history of Tango is being preserved as part of a project in Argentina.
There are plans to safeguard all recordings ever made in a digital archive, so that the music will eventually be available online.
Candace Piette reports from Buenos Aires.
Source: [...]

El Bandoneón
The bandoneón is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. It plays an essential role in the orquesta tipica, the tango orchestra. The bandoneón, called bandonion by its German inventor, Heinrich Band (1821–1860), was originally intended as an instrument for religious music and the popular music of the day, in contrast [...]

Don’t let’s this happen to you:

Source: www.tango88.com
Dance on your feet, not on your partner!
Let’s work on it.

Balance classes with Bärbel Rücker | Tanzbar
Monday Balance Class [August]
Monday 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th
18:00-19:30
Monday Balance Class [September]
Monday 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th
18:00-19:30
Tuesday Balance Class [August]
Tuesday 17th, 24th, 31st
13:00-14:30
Tuesday Balance Class [September]
Tuesday 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th
13:00-14:30
more about the Balance Classes & [...]

Have a look at this nice reportage about Buenos Aires.
The german TV Station ZDF has sent a 44 minute reportage (august 12th 2010) about tango, the city life, polo and more.

Buenos Aires – Die Leidenschaftliche
Traumstadt Südamerikas
Buenos Aires – eine Stadt, in der Menschen versuchen, ihren Traum zu verwirklichen, es bereits geschafft haben oder auch beklagen, [...]

Bärbel Rücker & Andrés Sarasúa dancing to Di Sarli during the 1. Homestead Tango Event.
Thanks to Birthe Havmøller for filming.
video 01 – Bärbel & Andrés

During my second stay in Buenos Aires (6 month in 2007) I was taking classes at Tango Brujo. In March 2007 Matthias Morin asked me to perform with him at the Tango Brujo Semester Party. We danced to Juan D’Arienzo with Héctor Maure “Si La Llegaran a Ver”.

The international Tango Festival Berlin 2010 opened the 20th May 2010.
All the teachers of the festival presented themselves during one dance to D’Arienzo’s Amarras.
The teachers of the festival:

Adrian y Alejandra
Esteban y Claudia
Javier y Andrea
Pablo y Noelia
Carlos y Rosa
Mariano y Paula
Maximiliano y Claudia

The video was taken on the Sunday Cool Down milonga during the Tango Festival Copenhagen 2010.
The teachers performed a “teachers surprise” and made the dance couples dance with an apple in between. The started up with around 24 couples and tried to find a winner couple. Every couple which lost the apple was sent out.
I [...]

Saturday night around 21.30 p.m. it’s time to warm up for taba tango.

Thanks to Brian Paw Damsgaard for the photos & Arion Ericsson for the dances.