Per adesso si sa solo la data che è dal 26 al 29 Luglio.
info su http://www.siracusatangofestival.com
venerdì, dicembre 15, 2006
Sognando l'estate
Ho appena scoperto che quest'estate oltre al "Catania Tango festival" avremo anche il "Siracusa Tango Festival"
Per adesso si sa solo la data che è dal 26 al 29 Luglio.
info su http://www.siracusatangofestival.com
Per adesso si sa solo la data che è dal 26 al 29 Luglio.
info su http://www.siracusatangofestival.com
Tanti dicono che mi son fissato col tango...
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... in realtà mi accorgo che mi sto affezionando a tante persone e le serate sono anche una scusa per fare due chiacchere con tutti questi nuovi amici...
TANGO VIAGGIANDO Capodanno 06/07
L'Associazione "ARGENTINOtango" presenta il:.....TANGO VIAGGIANDO............
A Nizza dal 30 dicembre 2006 al 2 gennaio 2007
Con:
Victoria Arenillas & Leonardo Elias
http://www.amartango.it/index.htm
Con il patrocinio dell'Ufficio Culturale dell'Ambasciata Argentina
In:
Hotel Nice Riviera ****
http://www.hotel-nice-riviera.com/
Costo totale :425,00 euro ,
Include:
3 giorni mezza pensione dalla cena del 30 dicembre alla 1° colazione del 2 gennaio
Stage di tango, presso la sala dell'Hotel Nice Riviera
E...........
Notte di milonga del 31 dicembre al locale
Danalys
Con l'associazione:
"Very Nice Tango"
In treno ci sono buone tariffe
Da Milano 15,00 euro!!!!
Da Roma e Firenze da 35,00 euro!!!
Con l'Euronight Riviera. Vedi sito:
www.trenitalia.com
Promozioni e offerta Europa SmartPrice
Programma:
Sabato 30 dicembre
16:00 - 17:00 Principianti Base
17,00-18,30 principianti 2°livello - intermedi 1°livello medio giro con plano
18,30 - 20,00 intermedi 2°livello - avanzati milonga
Domenica 31 dicembre
11,00-12,30 intermedi 2°livello - avanzati boleos
12,30 - 14,00 principianti 2°livello - intermedi 1°livello giro con sacadas
14:00 - 15:00 Principianti Base
Lunedì 1 gennaio
16:00 - 17:00 Principianti Base
17,00-18,30 intermedi 2°livello - avanzati volcadas e sequenza con gli elementi studiati nel work-shop
18,30 - 20,00 principianti 2°livello - intermedi 1°livello barridas e sequenza con gli elementi studiati nel work-shop
Vedi sito:
http://www.argentinotango.com/
Per informazioni:
Alessandro e Francesca Argentino
333.9449790; 349.3716672
mercoledì, dicembre 13, 2006
Speciale Vacanze Natalizie 2006
Sarebbe bello riuscire a reperire tutte le serate presenti tra il 23/12 e il 7/01
Fornire un calendario completo.
Chiunque conosca un evento in tale arco di tempo è pregato di inserirlo commentando questo post.
LUNEDI 25 Dicembre 2006
Organizza Caminitotango
dalle 21:30 - Grand Hotel Excelsior - Piazza Verga, Catania
Milonga de Navidad
Martedì 26 Dicembre 2006
Oraganizza Neotango
Esibizione dei maestri Fernando Lores e Geraldine Glutzman
la coppia più giovane di maestri e ballerini dell'accademia di tango di Susana Miller e Maria Plazaola con sede al Beso di Buenos Aires.
Bevande, buffet, spuntini salati e dolci
via Bonajuto 5/13 angolo via Vittorio Emanuele 97 - Catania
Mercoledì 27 Dicembre 2006
Organizza CaminitoTango
Serata Danzante all'Empire
Empire, via Zolfatai n. 12 (ultima traversa a sx di v.le Libertà)
Giovedì 28 Dicembre 2006
Venerdì 29 Dicembre 2006
Tango&Swing
Milonga h. 21:00
La nottola - Siracusa
Sabato 30 Dicembre 2006
Organizza CaminitoTangoDomenica 31 Dicembre 2006
Serata Danzante al CUS
CUS, cittadella Universitaria.
Organizza MuyLindoTango
Capodanno Tanguero con i MuyLindoTango
Lunedì 1 Gennaio 2007
Organizza Caminito tango
dalle 21:30 - Grand Hotel Excelsior - Piazza Verga, Catania
Gran Galà di Capodanno
Martedì 2 Gennaio 2007
Mercoledì 3 Gennaio 2007
Organizza CaminitoTango
Serata Danzante all'Empire
Empire, via Zolfatai n. 12 (ultima traversa a sx di v.le Libertà)
Giovedì 4 Gennaio 2007
Venerdì 5 Gennaio 2007
Tango&Swing
Milonga h. 21:00
La nottola - Siracusa
Sabato 6 Gennaio 2007
Organizza CaminitoTango (da verificare)
Serata Danzante al CUS
CUS, cittadella Universitaria.
Domenica 7 Gennaio 2007
Organizza Sabor de tango
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PROIEZIONE DEI VIDEO DEL VIAGGIO A BUENOS AIRES
AGOSTO 2006 DI TUTTI I PARTECIPANTI AL VIAGGIO
DEL PALADANZE
ore 20
MILONGA
Serata Danzante con la formula Tandas y Cortinas
Ingresso Euro 5,00 con consumazione
Pizza a taglio dalle 20,30
Musicalizador: Claudio F.
Organizza CaminitoTango
TangoHappyHourAcquaSanta
dalle 18.00 alle 21:30
AcquaSanta, via Raffineria n. 42A (traversa di v.le Libertà, pressi Ciminiere)
martedì, dicembre 12, 2006
Tango, Termini e Etimologia
Ieri sentivo un nuovo "tanghero" chiedere ad Angelo un libro dover poter leggere tutti i nomi dei vari passi che si sentono a lezione,questo non sarà di certo l'elenco completo ma può sempre essere un inizio.
Milonga
Milonga, according to Jose Gobelo (founder of Academia del lunfardo, considered to be an authority when it comes to Tango subjects), states that it is a word of the African Language "Quimbunda", plural of 'Mulonga'. Mulonga in that language means, "word"; Milonga means words, the words of the Payadores. In 1872 when Jose Hernandez published his most famous book "Martin Fierro" (describes in verse the life of a gaucho); the word Milonga had already acquired the meaning of gathering where one can dance. A decade later, 1883, Ventura Lynch wrote: "In the periphery of the city the Milonga is so generalized that is danced in all the gatherings, it can be heard played by guitars, accordions, comb and paper, or played by street musicians with flute, harp and violin". It is also danced in the low-class casinos around the markets of 11 de Septiembre and Constitución, other dances and funerals".
Today, Milonga has several meanings: a music, a dance, the place or gathering where one dances and also the original meaning (many words, or long story), such as in "no me vengas ahora con esa milonga", (do not start now with all that jazz).
Tango
There is no agreement as to the etymology of this word. When it comes to the pre-history of tango everything is shrouded in a dense fog.
The word tango appeared much earlier than the dance. It first appeared outside Argentina, in one of the Canary Islands (Isla de Hierro) and in other parts of America with the meaning of "gathering of blacks to dance to drum music; also the name the Africans gave the drum itself". The dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy of Letters, 1899 edition, defines Tango as "Fiesta and dance of Negroes or "gente del pueblo" (those that belong to lower socio-economical class) in America"; also a second meaning: "Music for that dance". Here one has to remember that to the Spanish world, America is the whole continent - not just the USA; in this case it refers to the Spanish part of America, excluding USA and Canada.
Here the dictionary gives the doubtful etymology of Latin 'tangir' (to play instruments). Latin ergo tango = I play. It is only natural to try to find a Latin origin to the word, although this etymological line obviously is not related to the Argentinean meaning. The 1914 edition gives the etymology tangir or tangere "to play or to touch". Later editions removed that etymological reference.
The music historian Carlos Vega explains that in Mexico, a dance called tango existed in the 18th century. This dance was done individually or apart, not as a couple. Archives of the Holy Inquisition in Mexico make reference to the "ancient tango" - a mexican song - in 1803.
The Dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy, edition 1925 defines Tango as before, but without the latin etymology and added: "Dance of high society imported from America at the beginning of this century". Once more Tango traveled all the way from "low-class" to "high-class." It includes two more meaning: "music for this dance" and also "Drum of Honduras". It is only in the 1984 edition that tango is defined as an Argentinean dance.
*It seems that the African origin of the word Tango is accepted by they largest number of erudite investigators. Ricardo Rodriguez reviewed the languages spoken by the slaves brought to Argentina ... tribes from the Congo, the Gulf of Guinea and Southern Sudan. Tango means "closed space," "circle," "any private space to which one must ask permission to enter". The slave traders called Tango the places where black slaves where kept, in Africa as well as in America. The place where slaves where sold also received that name. We could discuss this in more detail but ... I am afraid to bore you with so much detail.
In summary, the most probable origin of the word tango is: closed space where negroes gather to dance; later on the dance itself.
Lunfardo
The same way as lawyers, doctors, physicists, chemists, etc. have their peculiar language and terminology, thieves needed a language that was cryptic, secretive enough to speak among themselves and at the same time was unintelligible for the police or the possible victim of their actions. A language to be used in prison that could not be understood by the guards.
This originated terms and expressions that formed a new language, that of thieves and jail inmates. The secret tongue of "lunfardos", term used by thieves to refer to themselves. In this way watch became "bobo" (dumb-stupid) due to two characteristics, it is very easy to steal and it works all day long non-stop. Lunfardo is rich in Italian dialectal terms and also French words.
The first manifestations of this language appeared in Buenos Aires around 1880 ( police and newspapers archives).
This new terminology invaded the familiar language of the conventillos dwellers and very slowly the language of men (it was not used at home or by women), finally became something characteristic of being Porteño and Argentine. It was spread by theater in its "Sainetes", a peculiar genre that depicts life in conventillos; it was used by poets; but the greatest means of diffusion was not literature but its use in Tango Lyrics.
Mi scuso se è in inglese ma cercherò di tradurre tutto al più presto, ovviamente ogni aiuto è ben accetto.
- abrazo: embrace (as in dance hold).
- amague: from amagar. To make a threatening motions. An amague is used as an embellishment either led or done on one's own and may be used before taking a step. An example of an amague may be a beat (frappe) before taking a step.
- barrida: sweep. A sweeping motion. One partner's foot sweeps the other's foot. Also called llevada.
- barrio: a district, neighborhood.
- boleo: from bolear. To throw. A boleo may be executed either high or low. Keeping knees together, with one leg in back, swivel on the supporting leg.
- caminar: to walk. The walk is similar to a natural walking step but the ball of the foot touches before the heel. The body and leg must move as a unit so that the body is in balance. Walks should be practiced for balance and fluidity.
- corte: cut. In tango corte means cutting the music either by syncopating or holding several beats.
- cruzada: cross. A cruzada occurs anytime a foot is crossed in front or in back of the other.
- desplazamiento: displacement. Displacing the partner's foot or leg using one's leg or foot.
- dibujo: drawing, sketch. A dibujo is done by drawing circles or other small movements on the floor with one's toe.
- enganche: hooking, coupling. Occurs when partner wraps leg around the other's leg.
- enrosque: from enroscar. To coil, twist. While woman executes a molinete, man spins on one foot, hooking other foot behind the spinning foot.
- giro: turn. While woman does molinete, man turns on one foot placing the toe of the foot in front and executing a sharp turn.
- llevada: from llevar. To transport (see barrida).
- media vuelta: half turn. Usually done when man's right foot and woman's left foot are free. Man steps forward with his right leading woman to take a back step with her left and then leads he to take two steps while turning a half turn.
- milonga: may refer to music or the dance which preceded the tango, written in 2/4 time; or may refer to the dance salon or event where people go to dance tango (see below).
- milongueros: refers to those frequenting the milongas and considered tango fanatics.
- molinete: fan. Molinetes are forward and back ochos (figure 8's) done in a circle.
- ocho: eight. Figure eights usually executed with feet together (ankles touching) instead of one foot extended.
- ocho atras: ochos backward
- pista: dance floor.
- salida: Exit, or start. It's interesting that the word for the basic step (a place to start) should be a way to get out of a figure as well.
- salida cruzada:the beginning of a pattern with a cross; i.e. side left crossing right foot behind left, or side right crossing left foot behind right.
- sandwichito: One partner's foot is sandwiched between the other partner's feet.
- sentada: a sitting action.
- sacada: see desplazamiento (don't you love glossaries that do that?).
- trabada: fastened. It is a lock step - the step that the woman takes when man steps outside with his right foot and then straight forward left, together right. At this point the woman crosses and this cross is referred to as trabada
Milonga
Milonga, according to Jose Gobelo (founder of Academia del lunfardo, considered to be an authority when it comes to Tango subjects), states that it is a word of the African Language "Quimbunda", plural of 'Mulonga'. Mulonga in that language means, "word"; Milonga means words, the words of the Payadores. In 1872 when Jose Hernandez published his most famous book "Martin Fierro" (describes in verse the life of a gaucho); the word Milonga had already acquired the meaning of gathering where one can dance. A decade later, 1883, Ventura Lynch wrote: "In the periphery of the city the Milonga is so generalized that is danced in all the gatherings, it can be heard played by guitars, accordions, comb and paper, or played by street musicians with flute, harp and violin". It is also danced in the low-class casinos around the markets of 11 de Septiembre and Constitución, other dances and funerals".Today, Milonga has several meanings: a music, a dance, the place or gathering where one dances and also the original meaning (many words, or long story), such as in "no me vengas ahora con esa milonga", (do not start now with all that jazz).
Tango
There is no agreement as to the etymology of this word. When it comes to the pre-history of tango everything is shrouded in a dense fog.
The word tango appeared much earlier than the dance. It first appeared outside Argentina, in one of the Canary Islands (Isla de Hierro) and in other parts of America with the meaning of "gathering of blacks to dance to drum music; also the name the Africans gave the drum itself". The dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy of Letters, 1899 edition, defines Tango as "Fiesta and dance of Negroes or "gente del pueblo" (those that belong to lower socio-economical class) in America"; also a second meaning: "Music for that dance". Here one has to remember that to the Spanish world, America is the whole continent - not just the USA; in this case it refers to the Spanish part of America, excluding USA and Canada.
Here the dictionary gives the doubtful etymology of Latin 'tangir' (to play instruments). Latin ergo tango = I play. It is only natural to try to find a Latin origin to the word, although this etymological line obviously is not related to the Argentinean meaning. The 1914 edition gives the etymology tangir or tangere "to play or to touch". Later editions removed that etymological reference.
The music historian Carlos Vega explains that in Mexico, a dance called tango existed in the 18th century. This dance was done individually or apart, not as a couple. Archives of the Holy Inquisition in Mexico make reference to the "ancient tango" - a mexican song - in 1803.
The Dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy, edition 1925 defines Tango as before, but without the latin etymology and added: "Dance of high society imported from America at the beginning of this century". Once more Tango traveled all the way from "low-class" to "high-class." It includes two more meaning: "music for this dance" and also "Drum of Honduras". It is only in the 1984 edition that tango is defined as an Argentinean dance.
*It seems that the African origin of the word Tango is accepted by they largest number of erudite investigators. Ricardo Rodriguez reviewed the languages spoken by the slaves brought to Argentina ... tribes from the Congo, the Gulf of Guinea and Southern Sudan. Tango means "closed space," "circle," "any private space to which one must ask permission to enter". The slave traders called Tango the places where black slaves where kept, in Africa as well as in America. The place where slaves where sold also received that name. We could discuss this in more detail but ... I am afraid to bore you with so much detail.
In summary, the most probable origin of the word tango is: closed space where negroes gather to dance; later on the dance itself.
Lunfardo
The same way as lawyers, doctors, physicists, chemists, etc. have their peculiar language and terminology, thieves needed a language that was cryptic, secretive enough to speak among themselves and at the same time was unintelligible for the police or the possible victim of their actions. A language to be used in prison that could not be understood by the guards.
This originated terms and expressions that formed a new language, that of thieves and jail inmates. The secret tongue of "lunfardos", term used by thieves to refer to themselves. In this way watch became "bobo" (dumb-stupid) due to two characteristics, it is very easy to steal and it works all day long non-stop. Lunfardo is rich in Italian dialectal terms and also French words.
The first manifestations of this language appeared in Buenos Aires around 1880 ( police and newspapers archives).
This new terminology invaded the familiar language of the conventillos dwellers and very slowly the language of men (it was not used at home or by women), finally became something characteristic of being Porteño and Argentine. It was spread by theater in its "Sainetes", a peculiar genre that depicts life in conventillos; it was used by poets; but the greatest means of diffusion was not literature but its use in Tango Lyrics.
Mi scuso se è in inglese ma cercherò di tradurre tutto al più presto, ovviamente ogni aiuto è ben accetto.
lunedì, dicembre 11, 2006
tanguEROS
Nel mio girovagare per il web a caccia di regali per portatori sani di tanghite ,ho trovato un artista che fa degli acquerelli molto belli sul tango e l'eros. Possono anche essere acquistati online.Se vi interessa clikkate qui.
TANGO NATAL
A proposito di Natale e regali. Ho letto nel post sulla tanghite che , ovviamente , anche i regali ad un vero appassionato devono essere inerenti al tango! Così ho pensato di fare una ricerca sul web per vedere cosa ci fosse in giro. Morale della favola? Se non si ha un portafoglio a bandoneon è impossibile...a meno che il tanghero in questione non si accontenti di una semplice t.shirt o tappetino del mouse con una stampa a tema ,date un'occhiata qui .
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