Tango on the Silver Screen: “Scent of a Woman...

Sometimes tango music feels old because it is old.And sometimes it feels old because we’re not actually hearing what’s inside the recording.In this episode, I visit Christian from TangoTunes in their Buenos Aires space - literally below street level - to talk about shellac record ...  Show more

Sometimes tango gives you a tanda… and sometimes it gives you a book that feels like a milonga: funny, tender, a little awkward, and quietly brutal in the most human way.In this episode, I sit down with Juan Venegas, author of The Infinite Walk — a tango novel that made me laugh ...  Show more

Tango is Argentina’s most iconic cultural tradition. But for a hundred years, tangos have only been written from the perspective of men. The conductor of “La empoderada” or “The Empowered,” Argentina’s first all-female tango orchestra, is trying to change that. A transcript of th ...  Show more

How did a German woman fall in love with an Argentinian/Uruguayan dance? Listen to Nicole talk to Areen, one of our Arabic teachers, about how she got into tango and started practicing it. This dance was once forbidden for its intimacy and the close personal contact required betw ...  Show more

The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan celebrate 250 movies on The Rewatchables by dancing the tango and driving a Ferrari better than anyone has ever seen, as they revisit Al Pacino’s Oscar-winning role in ‘Scent of a Woman’, which also stars Chris O’Donnell and Philip Seymour ...  Show more

Opening and closing the tango embrace with grace.

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