News about tango in Australia and around the world.
It is with great sadness that TangoAustralia reports on the sudden death of tanguera Andrea Misse, in a car accident in La Pampa, Argentina, on 2nd January at the age of 34. A young mother and wife as well as a tanguera, her loss will be felt very deeply.
In 2010 and 2011, Andrea Misse came to Australia with Javier Rodriguez as the star performers at the Sydney Tango Salon Festival. Many Australians met and learnt from Andrea, who saw teaching as her mission.
Otherwise known as BASH, Buenos Aires in the Southern Highlands, is an annual Tango event organised by Tango Synergy, Sydney's Tango Club and TangoCanberra, both not-for-profit organisations of tango dancers. The 2011 event is scheduled for 28 to 30 October and promises to be a wonderful weekend getaway in the NSW countryside that will suit every budget. This is a report from the organisers first published for the 2010 event.
Osvaldo Zotto, the younger brother of Miguel, died in Buenos Aires on Wednesday 8th January of a suspected heart attack. Reports are that he was found in his apartment and an autopsy was to be performed the next day, with the funeral on the 10th.
"They [Osvaldo Zotto and Lorena Ermocida] embody all the physical beauty, the emotional maturity, the artistic sensibilities of Tango's potential in motion" Totango website.
Osvaldo Zotto was respected and loved throughout the tango world. He had danced and taught in many parts of the world, including in Australia, where he was the guest of Tangueros.
Milonga Para Los Ninos...
around Australia
Established in 2001, after the Argentine financial crisis, Milonga Para Los Niños (Dance for the
Children) is a fundraising milonga. Money raised goes to Sociedad Para Los Niños, a credible government audited organisation, which was established under Australian law, to manage the social work aimed at helping the children of Argentina. 
In 2002 the committee began work with Civil Los Honeros, a struggling foster home which had no indoor kitchen or bathroom, no gas and no hot water. Caring for 7 children on the premises and feeding another 80 was done in primitive conditions.
Over the next four years the Sociedad greatly improved the living conditions, adding a bathroom, kitchen and some walls! and in 2006 education became the focus.
Now, with the help of a government subsidy, this year's plans include building a new house. Says John Lowry, who is part of the driving force behind this charity, "The major project this year, in conjunction with the Oasis Foundation and architect Sr. Karpo, (Buenos Aires) is the rebuilding of Civil Los Honeros foster home and commodore (Moreno) to include a school for
vocational education."
Find out more at www.paralosninos.net
These pictures are of Honeros as it was - and the new kitchen.
Pictures: John Lowry
