
A republishing of my annual Thanksgiving post. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, even if this coming Thursday isn't your traditional day. We all have much to be grateful for.Each autumn when the harvest is brought in, the people of the world throw a party. Here in Argentina the grape harvest is ce...
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Because it's been several years now since ExpatWomen.com made me Mentor of the Month, and because I'm asked these same excellent questions over and over in my daily life meeting "foreigners" here in Buenos Aires, I'm posting this interview here. ExpatWomen: Cherie, your biography illustrates sni...
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A new tango show opened on Corrientes this past weekend, and your tangocherie was there to scope it out for you.Tramatango is the new vehicle of Milena Plebs, formally of Tango x2; this time out she is the director, choreographer, general chief and star.Here's what the program says:The show: Thre...
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Last Saturday Club Espanol had its first milonga in years! That's the good news.El Club Espanol (Bernardo Yrigoyen 172) is one of the most beautiful buildings in Buenos Aires, and, unlike so many others, is perfectly preserved. Like my secret correspondent related to me after attending the milong...
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Ruben y Cherie Tango Milonguero Buenos Aires Como saber si los bailarines en La Ideal son amantes o no?

Background reading for this post is The Dark Side, and Of Milongueros y Milongueras on The Tango Jungle.Tango pastel by Vera BervWhen dancers contact us about planning their tango time in Buenos Aires, I often ask them about their goals for this particular trip. Is it to improve their tango, wor...
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Here are some more examples of how we can learn by looking at photos, in our goal to become self-correcting.The guy above has got that right leg far outside the "couple," making him vulnerable to losing his balance and/or tripping someone beside him on the floor. But just look at how he's torquei...
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One of the goals of Ruben's and my classes is to help students become self-correcting. Once they have a basic technique and a knowledge of what to do and how to do it, then they will know when they make a mistake and can work on it. For this reason we usually video the class for them for personal...
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Play your cards right and dance well this weekend! Or else...El Guazon will give you a Tarjeta Roja--Expulsion!!--from la pista!(Are you scared yet?)
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I've always been a fan of the surreal. My earliest art memories (late 1950's) are of surreal paintings in the halls of the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles; my mother and I would always go there for lunch after a concert at the Philharmonic Auditorium across the street, and soon I became qu...
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You never know what ghoul may be watching you dance!
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I finally got to see this lovely little 2005 French film (I'm Not Here to be Loved) about the need for connection in one's life--and the power of tango.
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Which person would you invite to dance?Girl in Red Dress painting by Roderic O'ConorSeated man photo, Emily Spencer Hayden collectionThe Tango Tourist High Season is now upon us. I'd like to remind those who are recent arrivals in Buenos Aires or those who will soon be here, the answer to the ev...
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Henry of KnowTango Blog asked me to write about what makes a good tango venue.I’ve been dancing tango for a long time, and in many venues around the world, and in Buenos Aires since 1997, where I now live and teach. Looking back, it seems I’ve danced everywhere—from outdoor plazas and bandstands ...
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A head's up to those folks in Buenos Aires who love flamenco, dance, or just a night of passionate and firey music-- the world-famous Soledad Barrio and her Noche Flamenca are returning to Teatro Avenida next week for 5 performances only of her fantastic show, La Dama del Mar, recently premiered ...
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I'm a big folklore fan, and a Chaqueño Palavecino groupie. Ruben and I always watch Argentinisima on TV and plan to one day attend the big festival in Cosquin.Meanwhile, we were lucky enough to go to his concert at the Teatro Broadway last week. He was incredible! He sang all his popular repertoi...
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Tanguera, the "tango Broadway show," finally opens tonight in New York--one week only!I'm not a big fan of tango shows, even though, like most of us drawn to tango, my introduction to Argentine tango was the appearance of Tango Argentino in Los Angeles in the '80s. Since moving to Buenos Aires in...
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There's still time to be a Tango Champion in 2009!On the heels (as it were) of the Mundial and the InterMilonga, here's a week-long tango championship that anyone may enter if they are over 15 years of age. Whatever your nationality and tango status--professional or amateur--you are eligible to c...
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Here's tangocherie's first guest post, this from Best Travel Deals. Read on to the end for a couple of suggestions of my own. One of the stresses of travel is souvenir shopping. The fastest way to lose friends and alienate people is to cut them out of the perfunctory gift giving that has become...
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Ruben y Cherie Tango Milonguero Buenos Aires Ruben and I are going to "Argentinisima 40 Anos" at Teatro Broadway! Chaqueno is performing tonight, hooray! Esta noche--"Argentinisima!!"

Two awesome tango documentaries came out recently that celebrate the old guard, la guardia vieja, of tango. More than a trend following the huge success of The Buena Vista Social Club, these movies also attempt to preserve the magic of music made by artists who will not be around for too much lon...
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The festivities for tonight, Sunday, to celebrate Tango as recognized by UNICEF to be a cultural world heritage were canceled because of the official day of mourning for Mercedes Sosa.Here's a video of last night's performance of Juan Carlos Godoy, taken by Guillermo Thorpe for Diostango.What a s...
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Mercedes Sosa 1935-2009More infoLa Negra is singing with the angels now.Gracias, Mercedes, for your life, art, music, presence on this earth.
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Mercedes Sosa 1935-2009More infoLa Negra is singing with the angels now.Gracias, Mercedes, for your life, art, music, presence on this earth.

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La Reina de Primavera and her Princesses, with Sylvia and the organizer Myriam Rosich.Spring is huge here, as I wrote last week. I know some might say, enough already, but we take our fun where we find it!And the Milonga de los Consagrados, even though a few days late, wanted to do it up big time...
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Often when dancers return to their home country they lose some of what they've learned in Buenos Aires and regress into old bad habits. Sometimes the influence of the tangueros who surround them in their home milongas is just too strong for them to maintain the plateau they recently reached here ...
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Argentina is far, far from home for most expats who live here and the tango tourists who visit. Some of us are able to travel a bit and experience more of Argentina than Buenos Aires. And some folks come this far south because they have a passion for Antarctica. (The closest I will probably ever ...
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