People doing some things right By Alberto Paz July/August 1997 There is a school of thought that encourages people who are in a position to motivate and encourage others, to make a point of trying to catch others doing something right. I’m reminded of this because there was a time when I needed the reassurance [...]

Good morning America By Alberto Paz September 1997 The exaggerated boasting of some returning travelers and the generous eagerness of foreign visitors have created in the otherwise private environment where thousands of Argentines cultivate the social art of tango dancing in Buenos Aires, the perception that the world out there can’t have enough of Argentine [...]

Reasons to be thankful By Alberto Paz November 1997 November is turning out to be a banner month for Argentine tango in this country. Take for example the successful run of Forever Tango on Broadway which has already been extended until March 1998. Or look at the sensational US Tour of Tango x 2 through [...]

Just Call Me Charlie By Alberto Paz December 1997 A nation that lacks legends, said a poet, is condemned to freeze to death. It is arguably possible. But the populace that lacks myths would be dead already. December is the month anniversary of Carlos Gardel’s birth. Since orchestra leader Julio De Caro also was born [...]

Earning Our Daily Tangos By Alberto Paz September/October 1998 Time flies when you are having fun. Far removed from the stereotypes and clichés that the Argentine tango seems to induce when we first become aware of its existence, learning to retrain our bodies and finding out more about our inner souls, brings about a change [...]

Contradictions and frustrations By Alberto Paz August 1998 Many things about tango and the underlying contradictions of the porteños are paradoxical and they can lead to frustration if we approach them with the bias of not accepting possibly complex codes of a culture that they themselves are still trying to understand. It is the educated [...]

Summertime blues By Alberto Paz July 1998 Growing up in Buenos Aires, one gets used to the onset of winter during the month of July. The days are gray, the wind is unrelenting and the consumption of cold medicine becomes a national pastime. Winter is very cruel on the poor and destitute. As cruel as [...]

A time for recognition By Alberto Paz June 1998 We have become so enthralled with everything that publicizes and promotes the Argentine Tango to the general public that we have failed to pay attention to a very damaging flaw on the spin that is being placed on the description of the dance for the general [...]

Tango Browsing and Dancing Modems By Alberto Paz May 1998 I always find it rewarding when friends show a genuine interest in what is underneath the unexplainable attraction we feel towards the Argentine tango. And I mean not just the dance but the music, the poetry and all the accumulated life experiences of men and [...]

Reflections on love and hate By Alberto Paz April 1998 It is hard to imagine a time when tango did not exist. It has been around all of our life and the lives of our parents and grand parents but not much more before that. From the early 1880′s it was a dance form and [...]