Category Archive: tango

DesperTango – ‘Awakening within Tango’

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Sarah Morgan offers the opportunity to join Biologist, Psychologist and Tango Coach Ennio Fioramonti in an interview where he shares inspiring insights into the therapeutic powers of dance.

Argentina on a London stage

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German Cornejo’s Wild Tango at The Peacock Theatre in London: Same sex couples dancing a modern take on tango on stage.

Delphine Dartus in “Amor” in Norwich. She holds a guitar like a true rock star. Her right leg is lifted and she bends backwards to the music. The guitar emits a firework. In the background is a sofa and a lamp that set the scene in a living room.

Bilbobasso: Amor at the Norwich Light Festival 2020

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Explosive and fire-loaded satirical view of marriage, at the Norwich Love Light Festival 2020 by the French Compagnie Bilbobasso.

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Tango Face

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Another in my series of tango faces, this shot from the Fire and Flame Ball is of the guest performers, Graciela Gamba and Diego Converti. I chose it mostly because it shows that,… Continue reading →

Alan Mitchell and Katrin Vaga at the Fire and Flame Ball, 2013

tango face

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I’ve often heard the phrase ‘tango face’ and believe it to be one of those phrases that mean different things to different people. If a regular European social tango dancer was to use… Continue reading →

Graciela Gamba and Diego Converti at the Fire and Flame Ball, (c) Carole Edrich 2013

Fire and Flame Audience watch Graciela and Diego

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It’s taking ages to upload the processed images from the Paris Tango Fire and Flame Ball, so while I’m waiting I thought I’d post a couple of images taken from a different perspective… Continue reading →

Electro tango performers at Gaucho Picadilly, (c) Carole Edrich 2013

Electrotango lift and turn

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Neither of these images are of a style I’d normally go for since they’re less likely to sell to magazines, but I was looking for very different effects when I took them. In… Continue reading →

Electric tango at the Gaucho Grill, (c) Carole Edrich 2013

Intensity in Performance

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Last night we were treated to an absolutely delicious Gaucho meal to promote their ‘underground dance night’ – an electro tango performance on the top floor with special cocktails as well as the… Continue reading →

Couple at rest at the Fire and Flame Tango Ball, (c) Carole Edrich 2013

Loud messages, still bodies

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What most fascinated me on Saturday evening’s Fire and Flame Ball was how people behaved while waiting to dance. It didn’t matter whether they were waiting for the end of a tanda, for… Continue reading →

Tango Al Fresco, June 2008. In the front the dancers are giving

Dance Sensitivity Communication

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For any social dance to work pleasantly there must be consensus as to how to interact. In a milonga, tango dancers will move into the flow which is always anticlockwise. Even when a… Continue reading →