resources

regional tango

• Brattleboro TOPS (Tues Open Practice Session) : Tuesday nights 9pm - 11pm practica at the stone church on Main st, between the post office and the library. This may be used as class makeup for up to 3 missed classes. Jim M usually drives down and can usually drive interested folks.
• Second Friday Crosstown Swing Milonga: second friday of the month, 9:30pm-midnight, at The Church in Brattleboro. This is a fun tango social event.
• Dartmouth DATS : Monday nights classes and practica (an hour and a half north)
• Northampton Tango : Wed nights classes and practica (an hour south); "Neotango Zone" milonga first Saturday of each month.
• Estudio Tango Hadley : Thu nights classes and practica (an hour south); milonga the last Friday of each month.
• tangopulse regional calendar

this and that

• shoes
• last year's notes : dance vocabulary, styles, and steps
• tango dancers of Marlboro College on facebook
• photos of a local tango practica and photos of past milongas in the area

video links

• social milonga with Color Tango orchestra (Stow, VT, 2006)
• Natalie Hills and Francisco Forquera (Dartmouth tango demo, June 2007)
• Natacha Poberaj and Jesús Velazquez in the "Una Noche de Tango" show (1996)
• Geraldine Rojas and Javier Rodrigues
  • la poema
  • milonga performance (2004)
  • milonga demo
• Homer and Cristina Ladas
  • "musical phrasing" demo
  • Jan 2008 in Northampton
• trailer from Sally Potter's "The Tango Lesson" with Yo-you Ma playing Piazolla's "Libertango", starring Pablo Veron
• "assination tango" closing credit with Pablo Veron and Geraldine Rojas
• youtube/user/tangostudent - various teaching demos
• Dario's Tango Guide - 17 tango lessons
• tango waltz with Jaimes Friedgen and Rebecca Rorick
• Norberto "el Pulpo" Esbrez and Luiza Paes : steppinout and youtube

music links

• tango mix practice mp3's (To see these you'll need to log in at the top right with your Marlboro email user/passwd.)
• "best of the best" essential orchestras
• Ástor Piazzolla
  • http://www.piazzolla.org/
  • 200 versions of Adio Nonino
  • libertango played by Astorpia Tango Quintet
• neotango
  • Sharna's list of Neotangos
  • Gotan Project | Narcotango | Tanghetto | Bajofondo Tango Club | Otros Aires

articles

• Beginner's Guide by Susan August Brown
• feeling the metaphor
• "New Tango ..." from the Wall Street Journal
• "The Tango Junkies"
• you know you're a tango junkie when ...
• totango - Keith Elshaw's tango weblog (Montreal)
• wikipedia: Argentine Tango
• wikipedia: tango music

in the college library

• "Tango: the art history of Love" by Robert Thompson
• "!Tango!" by Collier, Cooper, Azzi & Martin
• "Paper Tangos" by Julie Taylor
• "Assination Tango" (movie)
• "The Tango Lesson" (movie)
• "Tango Bar" (movie)