This is the Welcome Message from 2015- 🙂 DT 2022 Lately my life has been taken up with my move to Western Massachusetts. I bought a large home in Florence in 2008, and moved my aging parents here with me. Ed, my father passed in hospice care in 2011, and my Mom,...
Daniel w Rebecca Shulman performing in Amsterdam in 1995. (click on the itangocafe link at left to buy the video) This is the opening performance of V103, from the most popular series that we ever sold at The Tango Catalogue, which was North America’s first,...
If you have taken class with me in any of the last ten years or so, I have probably told my analogy of the Magician and the Magician’s lady. Just the title itself is enough to clue in the most fearsome blockhead to the inequity of gender roles, and the...
Juan Bruno was “El Pibe de Ciudadela” (The Kid from Ciudadela). He died in 2004 at the age of 79 . (dates are approx.) He was my closest friend among the dancers of the older generation. I bonded with him because he was such a gentleman, having real respect for the...
It has been a pleasure getting going this morning. A lengthy pleasure. My morning ritual, when I can get to it all, includes enjoying waking up, stretching, meditating, showering in our new glass shower (you should really consider glass alternatives btw), and then a...
In the 1980s when social tango was re-emerging in Buenos Aires among the returning milongueros, young people only came to the tango because they were interested in performing it. They came from one of two worlds, folkloric dancing (tango for schools or big folk...
