MsHedgehog

I love afterparties - especially when everybody's almost too tired to stand up, but they still want to dance. They just want to dance. T...

Dancing with DJs is fascinating. A few experiments over quite a few years: Dance results ..... DJing results Always on the beat, but ...

Completing the incomplete thought of my previous post , I want to explain again some of what the pleasure is, specifically, in dancing the w...

My favourite thing about this video is that the band is LIVE and both of them still dance as though they know every split second of the mus...

A tango that recently got stuck in my head for twenty-four hours - Ventarrón, Orquesta Típica Victor. I would have posted a performance but ...

The thing that really hits me, watching this again , is the ludicrous contrast between Miss Hampton and Mr. Dokes, and all the other dancers...

Playing with Jools Holland, and others: And on playing for jazz, playing rock and roll, and dance sounds. I like the way the musicians work ...

This week in Tango Silliness, Libertango . Piazzolla was really interested in tango as concert music, and didn't particularly write or p...

This week, the Flower interprets El Flete, also quite often encountered by beginners [implausible, and I think my memory of this must be ju...

In case you were taking this tango lark a bit too seriously, the Dancing Flower is here to help. Today, it interprets a track sometimes used...

Long ago (well not that long, but it seems like long) I went to a lesson on how you physically express musicality. It was pitched at recent ...

Good trailers have rhythm. I really enjoyed Zatoichi . It's violent, but in a very stylised, absurd way. (I don't like being frighte...

You can now get the English version of Joaquín's book/DVD set on "Music for Dancers" here . [Edit - priced in Euros, and it se...

Yesterday I went to the Crypt earlier than I usually would because it was Adrian and Amanda Costa, and I wanted to take the class. Unfortuna...

Here is another video, in which I think are good illustrations of not dancing to what isn't there , and making choices about what is the...

The most challenging thing in those musicality classes with Joaquín Amenábar was not dancing to what isn't there. It's the same expl...

I took a class with Adrian and Amanda Costa last weekend . It was about milonga traspié, and Adrian was teaching us to listen for the beat ...

I've written a lot about Joaquín Amenábar's workshops on tango music for dancers, so here is a housekeeping post with a list of ever...

This was a very educational class and I'm just going to summarise what I remember, because it's so interesting I can't shut up. ...

Here's a point in last week's classes that was a revelation to me, and might interest you as well. I was vaguely aware that tango m...