#tango dancing

bat dance by the light of the silvery moon

Los Angeles Milongas: Best of the Best by Laura Tate first appeared on Coffee and Tango

Polling has been reopened to give a fair chance to other milongas that were not listed earlier and to spread the message about the poll to those milongas further south. Re Milonga Corazon, which is moving to The Tango Room, please vote for all aspects possible when it was at Sophie’s. Polling will end Jan. […]

The post Los Angeles Milongas: Best of the Best appeared first on Coffee and Tango.

Los Angeles Milongas: Best of the Best by Laura Tate first appeared on Coffee and Tango

When I first started dancing tango more than ten years ago, there were only two places to go: Saturday nights at El Encuentro when it was located at an Arthur Murray studio, and Thursdays and Sundays at the Argentine Association in Burbank. Now, there is somewhere to dance tango almost every night in Los Angeles […]

The post Los Angeles Milongas: Best of the Best appeared first on Coffee and Tango.

The Tango Lesson — Amanda – 5/26/2016

The Tango Lesson

May 26, 2016

I took up tango dancing almost twenty years ago. Around the time I began, Sally Potter released The Tango Lesson, an autobiographical film about the tension between artists and their art. In the film, Sally plays a filmmaker with writer’s block whose procrastinations include tearing up a floor in her house and traveling to Paris, where she discovers Argentine tango.…