It’s clearly a sign. I just found a video of Ozhan and Serkan dancing…LA BRUJA!!! So here is my tanda, the one that I’m really sad not to dance. La Bruja, Humillacion, En Flete, Mandria por l’orquestra de Juan D’Arienzo..
So, this is my tanda, I would have put Pensalo Bien instead of Mandria, but I couldn’t find a suitable video. And now I want to dance!! sigh, tipical, I’ve tortured myself..and I’m going to bed, now..
Last week-end at Milonga Brava, in Genoa, two wonderful dancers offered us great tango and milonga classes and four beautiful dances. They not only are really good dancers, but also nice persons, pleasant and interesting. Ozhan y Serkan, the dancers in question, really are a peculiar tango couple, for a start they are two guys. Unlike Los Hermanos Macana they improvise in their performance, thus interpreting the more profound spirit of tango. Finally, they’re from Turkey. Not that this is particularly strange lately, really good couples from all over the world are now (or, in some cases, have been for some time) invited to festivals and events, Stefano Giudice and Marcela Guevara , Alberto Colombo and Alessandra Rizzotti, Ney Melo and Jennifer Bratt to name a few. Tango is no longer the sole reign of Argentinean couples and Ozhan and Serkan are an excellent example of this tendency.
The occasion also calls for a celebration because, finally!!!, I was able to record something worth viewing with this (now not so new) camera of mine,that till now was only able to film Sebastian and Mariana’s performance near Firenze, but it was so dark that you almost couldn’t discern what they were doing. Although, admittedly, even if the illumination had been better, it would have been difficult to understand HOW they were moving the way they did, but that’s just because they’re clearly extraterrestrial dancers, something like tango encounters of the third kind..
I’m now trying with all my might to upload Ozhan and Serkan’s dances on youtube, but it seems clear that whoever designs and projects YouTube has gone out of his way to complicate things if the file you want to upload it’s bigger than 100 MB, which my file, it goes without saying, is. No fear, anyway, perseverance is my second, well, third name, so I’ll do it somehow.
Going back to the supposed topic of this post…concentrate Veronica! concentrate! Ozhan and Serkan and oh! of course…the musicalizador!!! ’cause you see, Francesca had this stroke of inspiration in Firenze and invited an Argentinean dj, Ariel Yuryevic. To him go my most heartfelt compliments since I both appreciated his music and his dance..yep, this was the other definite up of the evening, a dancing musicalizador (not that our ‘usual’ musicalizadores don’t dance, on the contrary, they do it and very well, but this was really an added bonus, Saturday being Internationa Women’s Day and all)
Between the performances, many dances and drawings (with a dance with Ozhan, Serkan or Ariel as a prize…I didn’t win, but I danced with two out of three of them nevertheless, and it really was great ) the evening passed as a flash, but videos and photos remains. I really want to thank Giovanni, who put all his photos on Flickr and linked them on our local tango list, so that really everyone could see them.
p.s. for more videos of Ozhan and Serkan I already posted one a few days ago here. Since youtube won, for the moment, here there’s only the video of the milonga they danced, but I’m planning on waging war and succeed..
Non ci posso credere, il mio liceo è su wikipedia…e anche su facebook.. . Non contando il sito, ma quello lo sapevo già.
Ed allora, per concludere, questa è la foto dell’ultimo, ma proprio ultimo giorno di scuola. 3A del D’Oria, gavettoni in macchina, farina nello zaino, pronti per un po’ di sana deturpazione delle Caravelle..
I added ‘Palomita Blanca’ to the section ‘Tangos de mi corazon’, but since the audio file from todotango must be the worst version I ever listened to I’m adding this video, that was recorded in Fivizzano Tango Festival 2007, with Luis Stazo performing solo at the end of a lesson he gave during the festival.
He is playing ‘Palomita Blanca’, it’s only bandoneon and guitar and the result is incredible.
..and since this vals is also a signature dance of Naveira’s I’ll throw him in for good measure :). This was taken during TangoMagia in Amsterdam last December. The lyrics and music and video dedicated to…Lineacurva…since it will most likely be ages till we can dance, even if Torino is approaching.
For a taste of a different kind of tango.I found the video with Ariadna Naveira this evening on youtube and I thought that it was fitting to post it together with a dance from the two, very good, Turkish dancers Ozhan and Serkan.The first video was recorded in La Marshall, a milonga in BsAs . The second during the Tango Queer Festival, also in BsAs, who took place in November/December 2007 and here Naveira’s daughter Ariadna and her dancing partner Paola seem to have won some kind of competition (I couldn’t find any specific info on the website), I’m reporting you what I read on TangOblivion
Las ganadoras, Paola y Ariadna Naveira. El segundo puesto fué para Cristian y Jessica y el tercero para Federico (novio de Ariadna) y Fernando Naveira (su hermano).
So that’s all folks and enjoy the strange, but nonetheless very good, tango
Energy conservation is a sensitive issue in our society or, at least, it should be. Therefore the more aware people are the better..the relatively small tango community can, sometimes, do its best to sensitize and spread the news that, if we don’t behave carefully, we could very well be in serious trouble in a few years.
For this reason I want to re-post an article appeared on Tanguear, an Italian blog by two tango dancers from Turin.
Il 15 febbraio 2008 presso il TeatroSporting in Corso Umbria 83 a Torino si terrà una maratona di tango che durerà fino al mattino seguente, con 3 dj ad alternarsi: Tango tradizionale Giuppi da Milano, Tango nuevo Don Nikò da Torino, Tango-jazz Luca Trupiano da Pisa.
Il tutto corredato da buffet, pasta dopo mezzanotte e colazione in mattinata; con le esibizioni di tango tradizionale di Marcelo Ballonzo & Elena Garis (Torino) e di tango jazz di Angelo Orazio & Anna Bi (Milano)… ma soprattutto, e questo mi piace ancora di più, a lume di candela (mi raccomando, ci tengo!). Il tutto a 13 eurozzi… complimenti agli organizzatori!
The event is an evening milonga with two couples dancing, ’spaghetti a mezzanotte’ and later breakfast, everything by candlelight. It is only symbolical, it may be an isolated case, but it’s good nonetheless to know that tango organizers do give a look around our poor Hearth.
I’ve been looking for this video for a long time, I used to have it on my old computer but it got lost in the process of having the internal modem repaired, the miracle of technology
I found it again today and it made up for the abysmal programs which are currently being aired on Italian TV, for currently I mean in the last couple of decades, although I must say I’d save ‘Mila&Shiro‘ and ‘Quark‘ if they gave me the possibility.
For everything else there’s Ebay. and Emule. and …
It seems that I’ve become the official tango pusher ( metaphorically of course )of Annalisa, one of my friends. She asks for letras de tango and I dutifully comply as soon as possible
Last night she confessed yet another obsession with a specific tango, last time was Pasional, now it’s Fumando Espero. I must say that the girl really has taste when it comes to tangos.
Anyway, she asked and, as I said, I complied posting just a minute ago the lyrics of Fumando Espero and the link to the musical file. Unfortunately the version stored in the todotango archive is not the best one, but you can’t have everything in life.
The 11th of January in Genoa, at the Milonga Brava, Otros Aires performed wonderfully. So that’s the firm point and I don’t want to say that only to cause the envy of those, at least three out there that I know personally, who couldn’t be there and missed the show (and the fun)..so, sorry!
The video and the photo are all the medias I could gather from the event, because it seems that everybody was too taken by the performance to take pictures or film something and this, I think, is another proof of the energy that Otros Aires transmitted to the crowd assembled in S.Ilario that evening.
They did all their most famous songs and many encores, people danced all the time except there was not much space, because everyone who wasn’t dancing stood beside the stage like teenagers at a concert (no offence there, I was often one of them ) singing and cheering when the new song began.
The evening passed very quickly (as all good things do) and soon we were eating focaccia with the band at 4.30 a.m. and then saying our goodbyes and going home or else leaving for another city.
It’s not the best quality because the lights were really low and so on, but at least it’s a new video and trust me, that was a really amazing milonga. Anyway I’m trying to find a way to improve it, MovieMaker or SonyStage will help me, I hope, otherwise I’ll use Premiere.
) the evening passed as a flash, but videos and photos remains. I really want to thank 
La Bruja
