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MsHedgehog: April 2015
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Argentine Tango for TV Viewers. Saturday, 25 April 2015. Since about January 2014 I've been taking my leading more seriously. I was curious, and wanted to dance with the women as well. They're great. So that meant I needed to choose an approach to how I was going to do that. Do yourself are very difficult to comprehend visually. It takes a lot of time and repetition. Actions you can already do, intentionally not just physically, are easy to comprehend. As an experienced follower learning to lead, I alrea...
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MsHedgehog: October 2014
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Argentine Tango for TV Viewers. Wednesday, 29 October 2014. Oh, I have so much writing to do. Experience and tips on learning to follow (written with a friend in mind). Interesting experiences of taking my leading more seriously - methods and results. A bunch of videos that I have found helpful or inspiring for leading (given very limited time and patchy motivation), and what is interesting about them. An market-based analysis of why something I consider bloody rude, is so very annoying. IBAN, the very l...
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MsHedgehog: On Following
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Argentine Tango for TV Viewers. Sunday, 24 May 2015. Ok, this started in a facebook thread about a video. But it's too long. To summarise, a lot of people are very anxious to spell out that " following. Does not mean the woman is submissive in tango". I can see why. I can see lots of causes for people feeling bothered about the possibility that people might think that. People saying silly things on Strictly Come Dancing. For me the terms are fine, and following is obviously and by definition the beginnin...
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MsHedgehog: May 2015
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Argentine Tango for TV Viewers. Sunday, 24 May 2015. Here's a bit of fun. The Campeonato de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (City Championship) is different from the Mundial (World Championship) and in my opinion a bit more watchable. Here are the tango, vals, and milonga finals. The same couple won all three, which apparently isn't what usually happens. Why not watch them and see if you can guess which one it was? All the videos are courtesy of Aires de Milonga. 04:43 for first place) and the milonga here.
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MsHedgehog: Leading FAQ
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Argentine Tango for TV Viewers. Friday, 31 July 2015. As these actually are, unlike most "FAQs", somewhat FA, I thought I might as well write down my current answers. Why do you lead? I like good dancing, I enjoy working on my dance, and I want to dance with the women as well. They're great. I was also really curious to find out what it felt like. Do you find you keep trying to go the wrong way and do everything the wrong way round? Do you have a hard time remembering to keep your eyes open? I curl up wi...
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MsHedgehog: July 2015
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Argentine Tango for TV Viewers. Friday, 31 July 2015. As these actually are, unlike most "FAQs", somewhat FA, I thought I might as well write down my current answers. Why do you lead? I like good dancing, I enjoy working on my dance, and I want to dance with the women as well. They're great. I was also really curious to find out what it felt like. Do you find you keep trying to go the wrong way and do everything the wrong way round? Do you have a hard time remembering to keep your eyes open? When we live...
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MsHedgehog: 58, crore, and 27
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Argentine Tango for TV Viewers. Monday, 22 June 2015. 58, crore, and 27. And I think that's one of the best things about linguistics, about being human, about all of this, someone on the other side of the world, something that they will consider absolutely normal, will completely blow your mind". Thank you for posting. This is fascinating! 29 June 2015 at 03:12. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Mshedgehog1 at gmail dot com. Go outside and look now. 58, crore, and 27. Two wome...
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MsHedgehog: The Travels of Tuneage - Dark Eyes
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Argentine Tango for TV Viewers. Sunday, 7 June 2015. The Travels of Tuneage - Dark Eyes. It appears that the words. Of the song known as "Dark Eyes" were written by a Ukranian poet called Yevhen Pavlovych Hrebinka, who published a Russian version in 1843, possibly as a compliment to the woman he later married. It was then set - it doesn't seem clear by whom or when - to a waltz written, probably in Russia, perhaps as early as the 1810s, by a German (or possibly French. The result - perhaps with a minor r...
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MsHedgehog: March 2015
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Argentine Tango for TV Viewers. Thursday, 19 March 2015. Strictly Come Dancing and the Tango World Championship. This post is here to clear up some mysteries about Argentine Tango on Strictly Come Dancing. It's going to be pretty long and it is VERY old news, that is, several years. [ Update - I've just been forwarded a press release for " The Last Tango. Dated 24th April 2015 repeating the claim "Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace - World Champions", so maybe not such old news after all. 3 What exactly we...
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MsHedgehog: Argentine Tango for TV Viewers
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Argentine Tango for TV Viewers. Argentine Tango for TV Viewers. TV viewers curious about tango, this is for you. Tango people know this already, but might have someone they want to share it with. Is great TV and inspires a lot of people to go out and get some partner dancing in their lives. But what is presented as "Argentine tango" is an imitation, designed to score well and please the public. It's nothing like the real thing. I'd like to give you a really quick video introduction. Which is what tango r...
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