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January 31, 2007
Taquito Militar
YouTube - Bandoneon - Tango - Taquito Militar (milonga)
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Canaro
YouTube - Bandoneon - Candombe.
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January 27, 2007
A ball at the Anjo House
YouTube - A Ball at the Anjo House Setsuko Hara Kozaburo Yoshimua
The ending of a classic Japanese feature film, including a tango between father and daughter. Beautiful dancing, "ballroom" style.
A ball at the Anjo House (1947/b&W/88mn./16mm)
Dir. Kozaburo Yoshimura ; scr. Kaneto Shindo ; W/ Osamu Tazikawa, Setsuko Hara
A family of noble lineage is stripped of its fortune and titles during the Allied occupation's drive to democratize Japan in the aftermath of its dfeat in WWII. The Anjo family throws one last party the night before vacating their mansion, and family members, guests, and servants all reflect on the changes they see pervading their homeland
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Milonga Pibas
YouTube - Cool girls tango. (Valya&Silvina, Moscow) on 8th October "06
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Tango Television episode 6/8
This is my favorite episode of Ney Melo's "Tango Television", a series of short video episodes about Tango in Buenos Aires.
YouTube - Episode 6 of 8 - Tango Television includes the dancing of (1) Ney Melo y Jennifer Bratt, (2) Federico y Ariadna Naveira, and (3) Gustavo Naveira y Giselle Anne, and the "Love on a Razor's Edge" Music Video, plus scenes from Buenos Aires.
See all of Ney's videos here: Ney Melo Videos.
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Valentino
YouTube - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) Rudolph Valentino
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January 25, 2007
Chichismo 2
Chicho & Eugenia: Plano Sequencia by Narcotango.
Video appears on following page.
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January 24, 2007
Reorg
I'm going to have to reorganize the videos site. Having all the player images on this page is too high of a load. So I will move the images/player into separate pages.
I think I will probably re-index the YouTube and Google Videos so that they are more by topic rather than by date. Chronologicaly sequence lets readers see what's new (to me), but the number of files is starting to be hard to browse through without some tagging and sorting.
Also, people often leave comments asking what song is being played. I will try to give song information if I know it.
These changes will take some time. I'll start the new way of posting videos now, though.
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January 23, 2007
Chichismo
Chicho Frumboli and Eugenia Parilla dancing to Biagi Orchestra's "El Recodo".
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January 19, 2007
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Milonguisimo
Alberto Dassieu and Jan La Salle appear in the show "Milonguísimo" with singer Miguel A. Balbi at Confiteria Ideal in Buenos Aires on October 23, 2006.
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January 15, 2007
Tango Explained Part 2
Q: "Is it as tricky as it looks?"
A: "Yes ... sometimes you end up with bruising"
Q: "How many ganchos is good and how many is bad? Like what if he did 450?"
A: "Yes, that would be too much."
A: "Is it real, or is it just choreography... that's the main part."
I'm just disappointed that they didn't explain about those two guys who were dancing with chairs.
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The tango fight in San Telmo
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The essence of Argentine Tango
"Tango temptress" explains everything about the history and character of the tango. Amazing.
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January 10, 2007
Off Topic Dancing
I can't resist posting a few videos that are totally what dancing is all about for me. But they aren't tango, so I'll just put the links and if people are interested they can go to youtube or google and watch them there.
(1) YouTube - Big Dancing, Small Town Two youths get arrested for dancing in public places. I got thrown out of places or told to stop dancing when I was a kid.
(2) James Brown I Feel Good - Google Video
When Terry Gross interviewed James Brown on her NPR radio program "Fresh Air," she asked him where he picked up his dance moves. He gave the astonishing answer "from baseball." "From baseball?" she replied. James Brown (who had played semi-pro baseball) said, yes, Jackie Robinson would do the splits sliding into base. If a runner scored he did some dancing. He said that baseball's "negro leagues" had a lot of style, and that our culture missed a lot by not giving them wider exposure.
Google Video currently has an amazing number of James Brown videos. You'll see them when you go to this one I have linked.
But check out these:
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January 09, 2007
Flor de Montserrat - Javier & Geraldine
Well, I guess they were pretty good after all! Sheesh.
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January 06, 2007
Alicia Pons
Alicia Pons and Osky Casas. Milonga.
Cincinnati Ohio, Feb 2005
Alicia Pons y Ramu Pyreddi. Vals.
Alicia Pons and Angel Montero, Atlanta Georgia. Vals.
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January 05, 2007
Murga Montevideo
Murga is a set of traditional theater arts from Uruquayan carnival. (See Murga entry in Wikipedia. These videos show murga performances from the New Year's celebration of 2006. Carnival takes place during Feb/Mar.
Murga is also associated with candombe. Some tango dancers and musicians have explored the incorporation of murga and candombe into tango dance performance. Examples are Luis Bruni, Pascale Coquigny and Juan Carlos Caceres (see Tango Noticias (USA) [Luis Bruni y Pascale Coquigny]) and Eduardo Cappussi and Mariana Flores (see Cappussi Flores ::Tango ::).
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Candombe Parade - Montevideo
In this one you hear people clapping a 3-2 mambo clave pattern against the drumming. I don't know if that's part of candombe drumming, or if participants just imposed it. Helped me hear the drum parts in a different way, though.
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