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Can I get a side of tango with that, please?

By rice.kelly  |  Location: Argentina  |  12/12/07  |  Pics: 1

Don't get into an argument with an Argentine tango dancer. You will be beaten to a pulp, mercilessly, especially if she is a woman. If the subject of the "discussion" is tango dancing, pray.

At first you will think you are just prompting a friendly conversation. You've been happily chatting...

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Un Instrumento sin Reglas

By rice.kelly  |  Location: Argentina  |  11/24/07  |  Pics: 1

Tonight I discovered that the bandoneon has no set rules that one follows in order to learn to play the instrument--each individual brings to it his/her own personality and, through experimentation, imitation and a lot of listening, the musician "breathes" life into a signature style--and I learned this...

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Why do People Dance Tango?

By rice.kelly  |  Location: Argentina  |  11/10/07  |  Pics: 3

For almost three months now I have been living in Buenos Aires meditating on this question. Perhaps, like the dance itself, enlightenment is an endless pursuit.

For the time being, the common denominator, I have calculated, is a search: a search for truth, a search for a connection, a search for...

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En Media Res...

By rice.kelly  |  Location: Argentina  |  11/08/07  |  Pics: 0

Every Thursday night I attend a music class. For an hour I, along with a group of Argentine locals averaging about 40 years my senior, listen to international tango music from the early part of the 20th century and compare the sounds and technicalities to those that exist in jazz during the same...

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