The Dance We Don’t Talk About: power dynamics...

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

Kindness cuts both ways in tango.

A controversial episode.

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The Curious Tanguero

Tangofulness: Exploring connection, awareness, and meaning in tango. 

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

Musicality turns a normal dance into magic.

Let's dive into this.

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Tangofulness: Exploring connection, awareness, and m ...

Part 1, interview with Oa Metzner: In this part of the interview we discussed what the term ‘social tango’ actually means for social dancers like me and you, what helps tango dancers improve, and then we dived into biomechanics. Finally, and this was a wonderful eye-opening pa ...