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Incisive interviews with musician/composer Daniel Rojas and dancers Jacqueline Gutierrez Simpson and Anthony Miller explore how tango is essential to their world in ‘Beats of Colours’.This short Australian documentary by Pablo Castrillón focuses firstly on Daniel Rojas and his lifelong passion for music and being a musician. Daniel is known to many in Sydney for …
To be a good tango dancer you need to understand floorcraft. In many milongas today this appears to be a lost art. When tango floorcraft is ignored accidents can happen – and I witnessed such an accident this weekend at a crowded milonga. Tango is a social dance and it is important to remember that …
For more than 20 years there has been a school for tango musicians in Buenos Aires, which bears the name of Emilio Balcarce. Born in 1918 in Buenos Aires, Balcarce, whose birth name was Sitano, was first a violinist. Later he became known as a baneonist, conductor, composer and arranger. In his early twenties he …
We’ve been busy. You will now find a Special Events calendar on this site. Here we will list visiting maestros, festivals local and in our region. This is not in competition with Tango Events, a Directory and Calendar of Tango Events in Australia. We felt there was a need for a place where you could …
As we wind back up to a life resembling that Before Covid we find that things are not as they were – and are unlikely to be. Returning venues to profit and staffing issues mean that some dance floors in clubs used BC are not available. They have either been turned into something more profitable …
Have you missed the workshops with visiting tango maestros – we have not had any visitors for about 3 years? You are in for a ride! 2023 promises to be a year when you can catch up with what you have missed and then some. Here are the maestros on their way to Australia in …
2023 is looking good. Tango is gradually returning to something like it was two years ago and although organisers are finding new problems, they are devoted to making it work. In the second half of 2022 we were treated to the return of BASH (Buenos Aires in the Southern Highlands) in Bundanoon and Tango in …
The Brisbane Tango Orchestra, which was founded in 2021 by Chloe Ann Williamson, is embarking on a project with Owen Salomé, which promises to be awesome. Owen was one of the founding members of Sydney tango ensemble, Tángalo, which schmoozed Australian tango dancers from 2013 to 2018 when the members set off on their own …
At last there is a national calendar of tango events for Australian dancers and tango schools. Sponsored and supported by Morena Dancewear tangoevents.au provides tango dancers with information on classes, milongas, practicas, workshops and more across the country. Tango schools are invited to submit their events and ensure that their activities’ information is up to …
There’s plenty happening in the second half of 2022. I have managed to track down these tango festivals, it includes favourites and a couple of exciting new events. I have also found a couple of musical events featuring some of Australia’s outstanding tango musicians. Check them out – but if you fancy going to any of …