MAY 2012, from Buenos Aires comes Chan Park, a Tango author (books in 4 languages); a film-maker and a fine Porteño milonguero Tango dancer. He is also a superb tango teacher!  He created the "TangoZen" concept, which he will introduce during 3 days of workshops, 2 milongas, & 1 Tango film night, including a premier of his new film, “Tango Your Life”. Meet Chan Park in May  and enjoy the natural beauty of Tango & Triora.

Per saperne di piu'  (maggiori info, prezzi ecc)  clicca  su: TANGO - TRIORA   For more info,  timetables, hotel, tariff, etc. please click:   TANGO - TRIORA ---------------------------------- In May, in Nice, France  during the week before Tango Triora  ...  en France, Nice,  Mai 17-20 ...  : Association 1901 Sensual Inspiracion Latino Sonia ROMEO Organisation événementielle 04 93 21 63 19 06 13 89 62 57 sil.association@gmail.com ----------------------------------   local milongas & tango calendars, in no particular order . . . See  FaiTango  for all Italian milongas. See:  http://www.faitango.it click on "Agenda Eventi", then "Lista Eventi", then choose "LIGURIA" from the top list and you'll see what's on Tango Liguria? We highly recommend Maura & Gigi's Tuesday milonga, in Borghetto Santo Spirito for this & their other great tango events, classees, workshops, etc. see :  http://www.vivitango.com For Tango in Nice & the Cote d'Azur, we recommend Annie Saint Ramond . . . Meet Annie & André every 3rd Friday of the month in Cagnes-sur-mer, Nice : https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=annie.tango@gmail.com&ctz=Europe/Paris&gsessionid=eDG_2rAqLopyi590pehQGw and also see Annie's fab pages in France's on-line Tango magazine, for Cote d'Azur tango events: http://www.toutango.com/tango06/   we highly recommend Maurizio ("Hugo") & MariaTeresa's excellent "Cafe Victoria" milongas at Caffe Vittoria;  & their fab'n'groovy outdoor summer milongas, (TBA).  Maria Teresa, like all woman DJ's is superb at the console, playing the very best & most dancable romantic and sentimental tangos. Milongas take place in or near Porto Maurizio, Imperia.  See FaiTango above for more details, or visit IMPERIA TANGO's page on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/groups/119078448338/   For a grand milonga in Nice, France, do try the milonga that happens every third or fourth Saturday of the month, where well over 100 dancers regularly attend. For info on Milonga Comunidad Nice see Annie St. Ramond's excellent tango blog & diary: http://www.toutango.com/tango06/ https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=annie.tango@gmail.com&ctz=Europe/Paris&gsessionid=eDG_2rAqLopyi590pehQGw   We highly recommend Antonello ("Zorro") & Michela and their excellent milongas : usually on Thursdays & Sundays at "S.O.M.S.", Via Carducci (near the 'Duomo', Porto Maurizio, Imperia); and on Fridays, 'Milonga del Carril', at beach-side dancing club, 'Saitta', in Loano;  & their occasional spectacular milonga at a de-consecrated church in the medieval old town at Ventimiglia. Contact Zorro for details about his milongas at https://www.facebook.com/antonello.teti     You will enjoy yourself at Diego's "El Gringo" milongas, if you prefer a chance for a bit of salsa and neo-tango on the side. Every 2nd Sunday Diego Pavia runs an evening milonga at seaside restaurant CAPO NERO, on the border between San Remo and Ospedaletti, just off the major seaside road the Via Aurelia SS1. For details see his Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1029790397&sk=wall   we also recommend Andrea & Giovanna (Gioki Tango) & their excellent "Yaguaron" milonga, Saturdays, in Varazze, http://www.giokitango.it  or see calendar below for more details on GiokiTango and their milongas . . . Antoinette and Céline are two fabulous tango divas from Antibes and Grasse, near Nice. They run a popular Tuesday milonga near to Nice airport, in Cagnes-sur-mer, see below. Highly recommended!  You can find Céline Deveze, a well-known European-wide TangoDJ on Facebook or call her on +33  6.15.51.41.16   More to come, including EVERYONE we have still to mention ... & more ! ---------------------------------- See  FaiTango  for all Italian milongas. See:  http://www.faitango.it click on "Agenda Eventi", then "Lista Eventi", then choose "LIGURIA" from the top list and you'll see what's on   For more tango in France, see Annie Saint Ramond's page on this all-France tango magazine: http://www.toutango.com/tango06/ ---------------------------------- TANGO:TRIORA 2011   thanks to all ... Thanks to one and all who attended the 3 days of Tango:Triora 2011. We had over 80 fine dancers at the Friday milonga, over 100 on Saturday & 78 on Sunday! We also had over 70 attendees between 10 workshops  &  private tuition lessons.
Carlos Gavito: " ... a close embrace looks personal but what we are actually embracing is the music."   Tango-Triora supports Maura & Gigi, of Vivitango, two of the friendliest people in tango, who run excellent tango courses & milongas in Borghetto Santo Spirito & Andora.   * * * Tango-Triora supports Andrea and Giovanna at Gioki Tango in Savona & Varazze * * * Carlos Gavito : "If it is not elegant it is not tango! Sacrifice the [fancy] step rather than the position."   Tango-Triora supports Simona Ferrando,  teacher with a good base, who emphasises getting things right & taking things slowly.     * * *	Tango-Triora supports Stefania Bertini, our Queen of Tango, for without her the hugely successful San Remo festival would not exist. Viva Stefania! * * * "Nothing is as difficult as that which seems easy ... doing nothing, or appearing to do nothing, is one of the hardest things to do in tango."   Carlos Gavito" * * *   .Tango-Triora wholeheartedly supports Dario Moffa & Monica Bozzano, who run excellent courses of tango tuition in Albissola & Torino.   "Nothing is new in tango;  nothing is owned."   Carlos Gavito   * * *	"A good dancer is one who listens to the music."     Carlos Gavito: Tango-Triora supports Zorro & Michela, two of the gentlest people in tango, who run milongas in Loano and Imperia. * * * Carlos Gavito :  "No one can teach you the feeling." Tango-Triora supports Hugo y Mati, two of the hardest-working organizers in tango, who run milongas in Porto Maurizio and San Remo. * * *   Carlos Gavito said, " we are painters, we paint the music with our feet." Tango-Triora also supports Marie et Jacques, Rose Gervasi, Annie St.Ramond, Magali & Daniel, Sarina & Felix, Antoinette,  Mercedes, Celine and the all other local organizers of tango events in South-East France.   * * *
ARCHIVE of past tango events in and near Triora   "CLICCA" SULLA FOTO DI TRIORA, SOTTO, PER MAGGIORI INFO DELL'HOTEL ------------- San Remo Tango Festivals 2009 2010 2011 Tango-Triora was very happy to support the inaugural San Remo tango festival and its hugely successful follow-up! At last, one of the most beautiful seaside towns in Italy, the capital of Italian song, has a festival that befits its glamour and chic. Look out in 2011 for more.
Tango-Breaks now offers holidays in a Belle Époque French Palais in stunning Menton, Cote d'Azur, near to the Italian border. For Sea-view stateliness:  www.italiandream.info/menton.html	WINNERS! In 2010 Tango-Breaks hosted the winners of the 1st UK Tango Competition.  The winning couples stayed in a Middle Ages palace, in olde Triora, a medieval mountain-top citadel.	We take the strain out of your holiday dance evenings by taking you to and from milongas. Also, airport transfers for very low prices are available: www.italiandream.info/tangostay.html

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Grazie tutti / thank you for supporting la 1º milonga di Triora, Domenica 6 Luglio 2008

Especialmente Dario Moffa, Monica Bozzano, Zorro & Michela, Simona & Ino, & Laura Bellini.

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Un grande benvenuto a tutti al secondo milonga di Triora. Per coloro che è nuovo a Tango Argentino, questa introduzione alle differenze fra esso e cosiddetto ‘tango’ (tango di ballo liscio) potrebbe essere utile / A big welcome to one and all to the second Tango-Triora milonga! For those who are new to Argentine Tango, this introduction to the differences between it and so-called tango (ballroom tango) might be useful:

In Europe and North America, what has often been called ‘tango’ is actually not really Tango at all. It is a ballroom dance that poorly reflects the real thing. It is a ballroom dance that refracts and distorts Argentine Tango. Ballroom tango is a mere shadow of the passionate dance that is Argentine Tango. Ballroom tango is a weak distillation of something far stronger, far superior; it is a mal-extraction of something integral to the cultures of Uruguay and Argentina (brought from Italy, mostly); it is a dance reduced from an intimate and unique experience to an often boring series of similar steps or fanciful actions played out to awful music. No matter how many times one dances a Argentine Tango, even if it’s with the same partner and the same music (of which there are some 40,000 mostly wonderful pieces of music written), it should never be quite the same experience twice. Ballroom tango reduced Argentine Tango to a sterile set of figures and perverse body positions. Argentine Tango should be danced in a closed embrace or at least facing each other, not bending away from each other! Ballroom turned Tango upside-down and ripped its heart out; it introduced strict rules; it borrowed some imagery from Tomb of Tutankamun-inspired Art Deco stylization, from which it derived its ‘square’ or ‘jagged’ postures and holds – in so-doing it reduced a social dance of endless possibilities to a tight and quite silly spectacle - for performers and for dancers. Argentine Tango is for all and it has the emotion, the creativity, the playfulness & the intensity that is missing in ballroom dancing. It can be simple or complex but it is not dull. It can be slow or fast. It should always be beautiful. It is immensely pleasing to watch and to dance. It is the art of improvisation. It is a way of life.

ITALIANO: In Europa e Nord America molto spesso il ballo chiamato tango non è poi il Tango Argentino, in quanto le influenze del classico ballo da sala hanno avuto la meglio. Il tango da sala (ballo liscio), il tango Europeo, altri non è che una derivazione dell’appassionata danza di Argentina.

Possiamo dire che il tango da sala è il distillato, in brutta copia, di un qualcosa di nettamente superiore, un estratto di di quello che il tango di Buenos Aires, racchiude, cioè le culture Argentina,in special modo della zona ‘Rio-Platense’, Uruguaiana e Italiana.Purtroppo nel tango da sala, il Tango Argentino viene ridotto da quella che è un’esperienza unica, intima, a una sterile serie di movimenti simili e programmati in sequenza, spesso ballati con basi musicali orrende. Nel tango di Buenos Aires, non importa anche se si balla più volte con lo stesso/stessa patner lo stesso brano (di cui ne esistono almeno 40000), non è mai uguale, stereotipato alla volta precedente. Il tango da sala riduce il Tango Argentino ad una serie di movimenti che sono l’esatto contrario del Tango di Buenos Aires: l’abbraccio, la frontalità che richiede questa sensuale danza, viene stravolta in una posizione innaturale, dove le teste, i cuori invece di unirsi, si allontanano. Il tango da sala è una specialità da esibizione, creata per essere mostrata in tutta la sua perfezione. Il Tango di Buenos Aires è per tutti, è una danza ricca di emozioni, creatività,di corposità,di intensità, che niente hanno a che fare con il tango da sala. Il Tango Argentino può essere ballato in maniera più semplice, o più complicata, ma mai noiosa.Lenta o veloce...ma sempre meravigliosa, bellissima da guardare, e l’arte dell’improvvisazione... è uno stile di vita.