The bearded lady is the only one missing “Elephants, clowns and dancers, tamers, camels and polar seals, but have no doubt that the bearded lady is the one who sweats to see the circus succeed.” The bearded lady, at least until early in the twentieth century, earned her daily bread in traveling circuses that went [...]

Lessons your mother never taught you When it comes to social activities such as tango dancing it’s unusual to share a binding shame. As local tango scenes are what they are, advanced adults should be grateful that others dedicate a lot of their time to offer opportunities for them to dance. If you’re lucky to [...]

At the height of the summer season, the Attorney General of the resort city of Mar del Plata, 250 miles south of Buenos Aires, has received complains about sexual exploitation and forced servitude of women and adolescents in ten brothels of that city. Testimonies and the evidences were filmed by hidden cameras. Three brothels working [...]

space MUTUAL FEELINGS Tango conservativo Sanford and Sin Productions Religious Hypocrite Label Music by Maria Belen Chapur Lyrics by Mark Sanford You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that’s so fitting with your beauty. You have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, I love your [...]

It was supposed to be just another day at the tango class. He was practicing the shopping cart lead with a new follower, her hands on his shoulders, her gaze on his hairy chest. He was wearing his unbuttoned to the belly regulation black tango shirt. As he pushed and pulled, he repeated what he [...]

A Manifesto by Nena Pezonchico (Agitator, troublemaker and a mistress of exaggeration in the rarest of thin air) Tango is in trouble. Living in our own world of music and dance, we are failing to see it. The milongas in Buenos Aires are full. And when they are not, the practicas are (100-300 people). But [...]

by Andy Doubt Raiser London, November 2008 The claims that the population of African origin in Argentina was exterminated in an act of genocide are absurd and they deserve a place next to extraterrestrial kidnappings and the staging of the moon landing in an Arizona undisclosed location, under the heading of looney tunes hoaxes. Currently [...]

It all had come down to a cultural war. A struggle for social positioning, and another exercise on the politics of exclusion. It was latte versus mate, rock and roll versus country. At first no one saw any harm in bringing a popular milonga to a halt to allow the espadrille wearing boys from the [...]

A table at a coffee shop seems the ideal place to solve the problems of the world, to catch up with the latest gossip and to passionately chat about The Tango Lesson; after all who better than those who have had their share of tango lessons to Siskel-and Ebert Sally Potter’s dream come through. Dick [...]