Wednesday (December 3)
We devoted the whole day to our first professional photo session with Roberto Sanz and his daughter. The first part of the session, in the early afternoon, was done in a studio, then after a couple of hours we all got into a cab and went to San Telmo, where we walked around and they took a few shots of us at a various locations.
All in all, it was hard work — being intimate and at the same time making sure the angles and the light worked and our faces could be seen, repeating and adjusting poses and trying to come up with interesting steps that made us look good and which we could hold for several seconds. In San Telmo, we began in a park with Roberto being a bit worried about security: it was a weekday late afternoon, with few people around, and they had very expensive cameras and lenses with them. We all relaxed more towards the end when we went to Plaza Dorrego and took some shots in front of typical Buenos Aires doorways. (There are open-air milongas during the summer there)
At the end of the session, we got all the raw material (several hundred high-res .jpeg files) on a DVD. We chatted for about an hour about Argentine politics and the economy, then parted ways around 8 PM. After arriving home, we looked at the pictures more carefully and agreed that they were indeed extremely well done. For a first try, it was quite good in our opinion. Have a look at this small gallery (click on the minature to see the whole image) :)
Saturday – Sunday (November 29-30)
As usual on Saturday we took a class with Christian Duarte & Carolina Lafata (@DNI) – tango nuevo in close embrace and as usual we enjoyed it a lot :) Afterwards, we headed for San Telmo market and design fair ending up hidding from almost torrential rain in Havanna…
On Sunday we had a great pleasure to visit Caroline Neal (the director of the fantastic “Si sos brujo”) and her husband – Ignacio Varchausky (a great musician, see: El arranque).
Wednesday (November 19)
Milonga con traspie, marcacion para hombres y adornos para mujeres with Gabriela Elias (@Escuela Argentina de Tango)
– very traditional class in a style: watch and repeat. Not too many technical comments, little interaction of the teacher with the students. Nevertheless, it was useful thanks to the steps used during it – useful for practice and for the further teaching purposes.
Tango class with Oscar Casas (@El Beso)
–another good class, even though there were 40 students alltogether! We worked on the concept of sacadas with turns, then we combined this with one enganchada and added a barrida. Very useful, detailed explanations of the technique of the movement, also a lot of attention was paid to the elegance and not compromising the posture while executing movements like barrida.
In the evening we saw a magical movie – The Fall by Tarsem Singh… It left us speechless because of its incredible plasticity, attention to detail, breathtaking pictures and impressive imagination of the director.
misia | other, tango classes milongas in BsAs | Comment (0)Tuesday (November 18)
Conceptos creativos with Santiago Dorkas & Cecilia Garcia (@Tango brujo)
– brainstorming class… attempting to reshape or even rebuild your way of thinking about dancing and movement in general. Energy, emotions, dancing with your whole body – connecting different body part – topic as much interesting as difficult to teach. However, Santiago and Cecilia dealt with it really well. Excellent but difficult class for which you need to come open-minded and be prepared for the challenge!
Tango intermedio & avanzado with Martin Gutierrez & Samantha Di Paolo (@Tango brujo)
– one of our favourite classes so far … this time devoted to soltadas and of course, there must have been a gancho as well (Martin calls himself “ganchofil”)
Before the classes we went for shoe shoping to Comme il faut (Arenales 1239) and later on to Delie shoes (Piedras 843). I wrote about Comme il faut before so only few words about Delie. They seem to specialize more in men’s shoes (we ended up buying two classic pairs for Peter, one at a really low promotional price) than women’s (they were on the kitschy side, with lots of glitter falling and not precise finishing).
After the classes we went to see a movie – even though we planned Practica X. We saw Burn After Reading by Ethan and Joel Cohen with the fantastic cast of George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton and Brad Pitt. We enjoyed it a lot thanks to a huge dose of the black humour and great acting.
misia | other, tango classes milongas in BsAs | Comment (0)Sunday (November 9)
And God created Sunday so that people can rest :) – no classes today, whole day I was lying in bed, letting my feet rest and learning PHP from my favourite O’Reilly series (the book).
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