Carnarvon Gorge Tango - Damian Thompson and Julianne Martens. Carnarvon Gorge is hidden in Queensland's central highlands - it features magnificent sandstone cliffs, vibrant side gorges, and Aboriginal rock art. Visit Damian's website: Jedi Tango
Port Macquarie Tango Festival - 6-8 February 2015
Port Macquarie Tango Festival - click here
Painting by Iris Toren - Iris Toren - Weblink
Venue at Bonny Hills
February 6th, 2015 from 5pm - February 8th, 2015 to 4pm
Contact: Wendy - tango.wendy@gmail.com
All events take place at:
Bonny Hills Life Saving Club, Beach St, Bonny Hills, NSW
Program:
Friday February 6 - Welcome Milonga from 5pm - 11pm
DJ Peter Davies from Adelaide - Live music Tángalo
Supper provided - Full Bar facilities
Saturday February 7 - Daytime Milonga from 10am - 4pm
DJ Emil Sydney 10am-1pm - DJ Peter Davies Adelaide 1pm-4pm
Fresh fruit, tea and coffee provided
Saturday February 7 - Evening Milonga from 7pm - 11pm
International DJ
Supper provided - Full Bar facilities
Sunday February 8 - Daytime Milonga from 10am - 4pm
DJ Mo from Sydney 10am-1pm
DJ John Lowry from Queensland 1pm-4pm
Fresh fruit, coffee and tea provided
Free seminars will be offered - TBA
Jheart Tango clothing will be attending our event with her beautiful collection of tango clothes for purchase.
Sally Velvet will be bringing her lovely range of Moonlight Velvet clothing.
Comme Il Faut Tango Shoes will be represented and available for purchase at the festival by Austere Tango Shoes.
Tango Cruise
I've just been reading through the Tango Cruise.com program for next year - oh my, so many beautiful places to travel and to Tango. Fancy a tango cruise around South America, The Baltic Sea, The Norweigan Fjords or Istanbul to Rome? Just to name a few of the places that they will be travelling to next year. Come along with me and have a little dream for next year... a few little snippets to whet your tango travel appetite...
TANGO:
There will be the opportunity on board to build on your Tango skills by attending the tango classes in small groups with Adriana Duré and Felipe Martinez. Private lessons can also be arranged. Of course, nightly Milongas compliment this extraordinary cruise. In some ports, we also organise Milongs in "special ambience" and where ever possible, together with the local tango communities.
Tango Cruise Baltic Sea and Saint Petersburg - preview
July 19th - 26th, 2015
Tango Cruise South America
Feb 26th - Mar 15th, 2015:
Enjoy the inherent natural beauty of South America
Itinerary of your "once in a lifetime" cruise:
Buenos Aires - Montevideo -
Punta del Este - Puerto Madryn -
Cape Horn - Ushuaia -
Straight of Magellan - Punta Arenas -
Chilenean Fjords - Puerto Montt -
Valparaiso
TANGO:
There will be the opportunity on board to build on your Tango skills by attending the tango classes in small groups with Adriana Duré and Felipe Martinez. Private lessons can also be arranged. Of course, nightly Milongas compliment this extraordinary cruise. In some ports, we also organise Milongs in "special ambience" and where ever possible, together with the local tango communities.
Preview: Tango Cruise from Istanbul to Rome
June 20th - 27th, 2015
The cruise starts in Istanbul and ends in Rome..
Itinerary: Istanbul - Mykonos - Athens La Valletta/Malta - Catania - Amalfi/Salerno - Civitavecchia/Rome
Dancing Tango in Mykonos, Athens, La Valletta and in Sicily
Tango Workshop with Adriana Duré and Felipe Martinez: "Estilo Milonguero à la Buenos Aires“
Tango Cruise Baltic Sea and Saint Petersburg - preview
July 19th - 26th, 2015
Highlight: Overnight stay with Milonga in Saint Petersburg
Dancing Tango in Stockholm, Tallinn, Helsinki and Riga
Tango Workshops on board
Visit www.tango-cruise.com
Program for 2015
Find them on facebook under: Bailando Tango Cruise
Luna Tango - Alli Sinclair
I was delighted to be asked to share Alli Sinclair's latest work Luna Tango...
About Luna Tango...
Desperate to understand the reason her mother abandoned her twenty years ago to become a world-class tango dancer, journalist Dani McKenna delves into the world of tango in the hope of exposing decades of lies and deception that have threatened three generations of her family.
When Dani meets the enigmatic Carlos Escudero—a revered tango dancer and man of intense passion—they work together to help her understand why her grandmother lives in fear of all things tango, and how the brutal murder of a tango music legend in Buenos Aires now affects her family.
Luna Tango is now available in print and ebook! click here to visit Alli Sinclair and find out more about Luna Tango
Alli Sinclair is Australian born but considers herself a citizen of the world. She spent her early adult years traveling the globe, intent on becoming an Indiana Jones in heels. She scaled mountains in Nepal, Argentina, and Peru, rafted the Ganges, and rode a camel in the Sahara. Argentina and Peru became her home for a few years and when she wasn’t working as a mountain or tour guide, Alli could be found in the dance halls dancing the tango, salsa, merengue, and samba.
All of these adventures made for fun storytelling and this is when she discovered her love of writing. Alli’s stories combine her passion for exotic destinations, the quirks of human nature, and the belief that everyone can dance, even if it’s to their own beat.
Alli currently serves on the committee of Romance Writers of Australia as Events Liaison.
Information from allisinclairauthor.wordpress.com
Tango DJ... Creating Cortinas
'Sprinkle in the cortinas and stir gently'... says Patrick Laderman. What is a cortina? In Argentine Tango, a cortina is the piece of music played between tandas (3-4 pieces of music) at a milonga (a tango dance). When the DJ plays the cortina, it lets the dancers know that the tanda has has ended, and that it is time to leave the floor.
How long is the cortina music? Milonga 101 link here
What is your preferred cortina at a dance? A danceable or non danceable piece?
The Organic Tango School has an article Tango DJ 101 a Long Dark Night at Dabney Hall by Homer Ladas the link can be found here
"As a DJ, the greatest compliment is not what people say.
The greatest compliment is after you check volume levels and look for a dance
partner to discover that nobody is available to dance because everyone dancing." Argentine Tango DJ Basic Outline PDF click here
Tanda of the week"
If you would like to create your own unique cortina and have been wondering how to go about it...
Links to DJ articles:
In Spanish cortina means curtain.
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