resources

regional tango

• Brattleboro Tango (Tues Open Practice Session) : Tuesday nights 8:30pm - 11pm-ish practica at the Stone Church (corner of Grove and Main) in Brattleboro. This may be used as class makeup for up to 3 missed classes. Jim M can sometimes drive interested folks. Typically there's also a milonga on the 2nd Fri of the month there. See http://brattleborotango.org for details.
• Jackie Wong and her cohort run a weekly Sun night practica and 3rd Sat monthly milonga in Northampton in Thorne's Market - see her site http://tangopulse.net for details.
• The best local tango event calender is the tangopulse regional calendar .
• Facebook is a good place to find tango groups and events.
  • Brattleboro Tango
  • TangoPulse
  • Tango in western mass and beyond
  • Amherst Argentine Tango Club
  • Dartmouth Argentine Tango Society
• Other nearby tango venues include
  • http://www.vktango.com/ (Holyoke Mass)
  • http://www.monadnocktango.org/ (Keene NH and thereabouts)

this and that

• shoes
• vocabulary notes : dance vocabulary, styles, and steps
• tango dancers of Marlboro College on facebook
• Jim's Fundamentals of Tango (with balloons) at the Stone Church, Fall 2010

music links

• /media/tango_mix (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)

general information

• wikipedia: Argentine Tango

vocabulary

• http://www.easytango.com/dance/Category:Glossary