<p>ⓒ Richard Levitte</p>
http://journal.richard.levitte.org/tags/archive-tango/Richard Levitte's journalikiwiki2011-05-11T00:30:56ZTango... and collections of linkshttp://journal.richard.levitte.org/entries/tango-collections/2011-05-11T00:30:28Z2011-05-11T00:30:28Z
<p>Just a short note to present a part of this blog, the <a href=
"http://journal.richard.levitte.org/static/">static pages</a>, which I currently will mostly use for
collections of clips I want to have constantly present instead of
getting lost in the history of this blog.</p>
<p>I'm starting off with a few <a href="http://journal.richard.levitte.org/static/tango/">tango video
clips</a>.</p>
<p>We'll see where this leads, I might add other static stuff as
well.</p>
Tango and release partyhttp://journal.richard.levitte.org/entries/tango-release-party/2011-05-11T00:30:56Z2010-11-21T07:46:57Z
<p>Last summer, Sweden's tango community was in shock, the Tango
Portal on the net was gone, all there was was a note from the owner
saying that it is no more. I won't go into detail about it...
however, quite a number of people scrambled to their feet, a couple
creating their own site as quick replacement.</p>
<p>There's also this group of people who realised that a site with
such popularity couldn't rest on the shoulders of one single person
who might get tired of it some day and no longer care about it...
so, a few of us got together and created an association that would
stand behind a new Tango Portal (dansatango.nu, meaning "dance
tango, now"), truly owned by community, making it possible for
people to come and to leave as they get inspired or tired of it all
without risking the future of the site.</p>
<p>In mid septembre, the association itself was started, and
<a href="http://dansatango.nu">the site</a> got started on not long
after.</p>
<p>About 2 months later, the site was ready enough to get a
following and be useful, and it was time to have a release party.
Yesterday was the day, and it became a lovely evening with red
wine, <a href=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empanadas">Empanadas</a> and of
course, lots of tango.</p>
<p>Mmmm, to tango, and to feel free to actually do it, daring to
ask someone out on the floor, feeling that I can handle this, that
I can lead a beautiful dance with quite a number of different
dancers, or that I can follow easily, sensing quite a lot of the
signals I get and do something nice with them. I recall a year ago,
when I fel very new at this, you'd hardly catch me going to a tango
evening like this. I did less than a year ago, but still, you
wouldn't catch me inviting someone to dance. The difference between
then and now amazes me sometimes.</p>