At some point in the last couple of months my main email listing through Mozilla has had a hiccup – I must have entered an email address incorrectly so it won’t send to the group, but I cannot find the dodgy email address. So, I have just been using the smaller email group list in the meantime while we figure out the issue.

There hasn’t been any major news sent by email recently, but if you haven’t received any of late and would like to be added to the more frequent small list, please email us and in the meantime I’ll keep trying to find that culprit address..it will be fixed soon.

Our recent guests, Pedro and Sophia were in NZ as guest teachers at the NZ TangoFestival in Wellington which included a stint performing and being interviewed live on national TV (Good Morning NZ). Check them out here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OHrfZlQHHI

For those who’ve been doing tango for a while (more than 2 years) will probably remember a tango show troupe from Buenos Aires performing at Thebarton Theatre (click here for old news). We even had a milonga at The Banque attended by some of the performers.

Well they’re back in 2008, this time at the Adelaide Festival Centre. The 2008 Festival Centre Program has the details on page 25.

As usual, Coriole has been another fabulous event for Siempre Tango and the Adelaide tango scene.

Ben has uploaded a few photos courtesy of Inés (aka Rafa’s sous chef). You can see them here

Andrew has also uploaded a selection of photos from Coriole and the workshops.

Enjoy!

Thank you to everyone who assisted to create a great weekend of tango:

• Particularly Pedro and Sophia Alvarez of Patio de Tango for their workshops and performances. Make sure you visit them if you are in Sydney!

• Mark Lloyd and Libby Raupach for again offering their home for another Coriole event.

• Rafael for his fabulous asado cooking…including building the bbq!

• DJ’s Mark & Ben (& Mark for finding the RSL hall that we used Friday night at late notice).

• Andrew for the flyers and tickets..even though he and Kellie had a mad week with house purchasing and were unable to join us very much.

Thanks everyone, hope you had a great weekend.

Megan

Buenos Aires is a big, beautiful city. With wide boulevards, green parks and amazing architecture. But like all large cities there is often so much more to it than that.

I have discovered the photoblog Buenos Aires Daily which documents – through photography – a side of Buenos Aires (and other parts of Argentina) that isn’t always apparent from the usual commentary.

The shots are honest and shed a different light on this amazing place. Buenos Aires comes alive in these candid photos of people, buildings and events. Don’t forget to look through their archives.

While we have heard of the benefits of dancing tango to help ward off health concerns such as dementia here and help to improve cardiac fitness here, studies are being undertaken by New England University Honors student Rosa Pinniger to find the positive effects of dance – specifically the tango – upon people suffering from depression. The trial looks at how concentration on your dancing can help fight off negative thoughts and depression.

Pinniger also suggests that the state reached while dancing tango is much like meditation

“While you’re doing tango you can only be in the present – you really have to focus, concentrate, and it doesn’t allow your thoughts to drive into your mind,” she said.

“And this is one of the things of meditation, the other thing is that for example in meditation people usually use their breathing, and this is something that people have done all their lives – they know how to breathe but they need to be aware of their breathing and they use it.

“The same with the tango – everyone walks and as long as you can walk you can tango, and this is the truth.

“The only thing is that usually we are not aware of how we walk and in tango you have to.”

Article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/28/2288549.htm

Link to original UNE call for volunteers:
http://blog.une.edu.au/news/2008/04/16/tango-trial-aims-to-dance-depression-away/

The 1935 tango, Por Una Cabeza (By a Head) which recounts the story of the unsuccessful passion of a man for a woman and horse racing, has been used in at least three films – Scent of a woman, 1992; Schindler’s List, 1993; and True Lies, 1994. In these films tango is used as themes of healing and heroic action.

The music and lyrics of Por Una Cabeza, were created by Carlos Gardel (1887/90, Dec – 1935, June) and Alfredo Le Pera (1900, June – 1935, June). Both Gardel and Le Pera, along with other musicians, died in a plane crash in Medellin, Colombia in 1935.

The song, Por Una Cabeza, has been translated by Albero Paz and the lyrics can be found on the web.

Information source:

http://www.planet-tango.com/lyrics/porunaca.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Le_Pera

and

Thompson, Robert Farris. 2005. Tango: the art history of love. United States: Vintage Books. P20.