Thursday, December 27, 2007

Tango Libre Paotango

Paola Bordon tango dancer and teacher will be
in NYC Dec 28 - Jan 1.
You can contact her for technique of women or
milonga with traspie or chacarera
and zamba (Argentinian folklore).
1312- 498 0556
paotango@yahoo.fr

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

What time is it in Tango Mecca?

As of 12/30, Argentina has just announced it will reintroduce daylight savings time.

Therefore…

BsAs

NOON

New York

9 AM

[3 hours earlier]

Los Angeles

6AM

[6 hours earlier]

Thanks Loreen for this important info!

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Tiger's Tango Lessons

After reading the article below, you faggots and dykes know you'd better get your booties into my tango class and educate yourselves in preparation for your next holiday in Gay Buenos Aires!

Thursday nights
7pm Beginner
8pm Adv Beginner
9-9:30pm practica
$20 a lesson
9 Great Jones (3rd st)
between Broadway & Lafayette
Bell #1
NYC

Learn from the queer milonguero and third place winner of the 2007 US tango salon championship.
All classes are heterosexual friendly.
No partner necessary.
Tango shoes - A MUST!!!

GayWired.com - Don’t Cry for Gay Argentina

Don’t Cry for Gay Argentina

Latin America’s most gay friendly new destination
Article Date: 12/07/2007

By Duane Wells
Five years ago, Buenos Aires became the first major Latin American city to approve legalized same-sex unions. This past summer, the Argentinian capital hosted a gay football World Cup. Meanwhile, just last month, the city welcomed The Axel Hotel, Latin America’s first luxury hotel designed specifically for a gay male audience. And this week, Argentina's House of Representatives is expected to vote on a new national law to extend health benefits to gay couples. All of this means there is a little need these days to cry for gay Argentina.

With travel industry experts estimating that about 20 percent of the tourists that visit Buenos Aires are gay (which amounts to about 300,000 visitors a year who spend $600 million annually in the city) it’s no wonder that there are gay tango bars and wine shops sprouting up all over town, and that a new "friendly card" guides travelers and locals to discounts at gay-friendly shops and restaurants.

There is now even, a "Gay Map" that lists gay-friendly nightspots and more.

This is all a far cry from the not so distant past, where the country’s military dictatorship decreed that being openly gay was an offense punishable by jail time.

According to an International Herald Tribune report, Argentine social mores began loosening in the 1990s, when the pegging of the peso to the dollar gave Argentines more spending power, allowing many to travel abroad for the first time.

Thereafter when Argentina plunged into economic chaos in late 2001, devaluing the currency and turning Buenos Aires into a relative bargain for Western tourists (many of whom were gay) discrimination based on sexual orientation became a petty concern, the report continues.

Against this backdrop, it is not hard to see why Juan Juliá, the savvy 37-year-old entrepreneur from Barcelona, chose Buenos Aires as the site for the second ‘hetero-friendly’ gay targeted Axel Hotel over other destinations like Rio de Janeiro; Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; and a slew of European capitals.

Suffice it to say that it is the dawn of a new day in Argentina. Si!

"the dance which united all ethnic groups and peoples"

FOCUS Information Agency

New show by Neshka Robeva

9 December 2007 | 18:41 | FOCUS News Agency

Sofia. The premiere of the new performance of Neshka Robeva Refugees would be on December 12 in the National Palace of Culture. It would be telling the story in its own way about the fates of different Balkan groups going to Argentine in the 20th century. These were refugees who left their mother country for different reasons – everyday life, political or love reasons, Neshla Robeva, long years eurhythmics coach and author of the most successful musical performances in Bulgaria said for FOCUS News Agency.
The fates of people from different ethnic groups would be presented in the performance – Armenians, Jews, Turks, Macedonians, Serbs, Bulgarians.
‘All of these will be entangles with Argentinean tango – the dance which united all ethnic groups and peoples,’ Neshka Robeva said. ‘In the same time we tell the story of the fate of the refugees by the means of dance, music and songs,’ the choreographer added.