Hello, everyone,
I love the Tango. I particularly love the Argentine Tango. So difficult to learn, so beautiful, so captivating and challenging. There is nothing quite like it, for me anyway. This is an unusual Tango movie, done to the song Skyscrapers.
Part dance, part film, part music, part fashion show, part theatre.
All movement, elegance, ritual, male/female mating dance, pure poetry…
Something to lighten the mood…and inspire…and end the day on a lovely note.
Giselle
April 3, 2012 at 1:12 am
Giselle Minoli Absolutely. “Part dance, part film, part music, part fashion, part theatre.” May I just add ‘passion’ and ‘romance’ please? Not to forget a really good workout.
April 3, 2012 at 1:13 am
Yes you may Colin Lucas-Mudd add anything you want. How light as a feather on her feet is she? The reach…the step. I love it.
April 3, 2012 at 1:19 am
I share the same sentiments as you, Giselle Minoli, as soon as I saw this new release from OK Go. And let’s not forget, Trish & Moti are moving with such grace, not across the floating tiles of a ballroom dancefloor but the very-real streets of un-even surfaces.
Yet they tango on!!
April 3, 2012 at 1:36 am
I love that Eddie K. Tango On has just become my new mantra. I tell you, oddly, it’s easier in 3.5″ heels, but honestly I’ve never tried it on the sidewalk. Light as a feather! (Thought you’d like it!)
April 3, 2012 at 1:39 am
The costume and color transitions combined with the streetscape has a favela feel. Giselle, do you remember your game of picking songs for different people last fall? I chose a scene from “The Tango Lesson” for you before I learned you were into ballroom. What was the line from “Avita”? The tango is life!
April 3, 2012 at 1:48 am
Gary S Hart if I could go back and learn to dance all over again, I would have started learning Flamenco and the Argentine Tango when I was a girl. I’d never even heard of the Tango and had no opportunity where I lived to study Flamenco. They are indeed life! Gorgeous. Glorious. Magnificent. I do remember…
April 3, 2012 at 2:23 am
There are 6-8 week classes of tango and Spanish in Buenos Aires on a regular basis. marcia litt did such a program… summer before last i think it was.
April 3, 2012 at 2:40 am
That was real cool, so sultry and seductive. I like the tune too, OK-go’s sound has evolved. I also love how OK-go align themselves with dance, probably more so than other dance-pop acts, I mean, who could ever forget the treadmill dance? http://youtu.be/oXsPtMvkwOk
April 3, 2012 at 2:43 am
Ha! I’m glad you liked it Gary Stockton. You are right. Sultry and seductive the Tango is. The ultimate seduction if you ask me… OK Go is completely whacked. Love them. But this might be a fave…
April 3, 2012 at 3:04 am
That was absolutely awesome. Loved it. The colour changes both background and clothing really made it. Have you got anymore of that sort of thing. To dance like that.
April 3, 2012 at 3:39 am
Very true, I have to say I love Dancing and all different styles. They give me a great challenge just knowing I tried. So I have to say I have leaned a lot.
April 3, 2012 at 4:17 am
Yes but it sure makes for some intimate fun.
April 3, 2012 at 4:34 am
Yes I agree I have danced the tango, I will say it is a very passionate soul to soul dance.
April 3, 2012 at 6:36 am
See your post,I want’t to say something!
April 3, 2012 at 9:36 am
I love the Tango, too 😀
April 3, 2012 at 11:38 am
Very funny Siamak Manzarpour…just the imagery of the drive home after a couple has Tango’ed together is another kind of Tango. That’s the thing about the Tango…it defines relationships quite well I think. Push/pull, slow/fast, complex/simple, sometimes angry/sometimes gentle. Ah, Yes…like life!
April 3, 2012 at 11:43 am
Walter H Groth You are absolutely right. Tango is an art. It is a philosophy. One that takes a long time to learn, a long time to understand, a long time to make one’s own and get the nuance of. Thus my wishing I’d learned it long ago. But…better late than never I always say….
April 3, 2012 at 11:44 am
Anna Baty I think everyone should learn to dance. The form has a lot to teach everyone. Morning Ayoub Khote.
April 3, 2012 at 3:37 pm
There was a video some time back shot the same way. Clothes and dance in East London
I liked this very much Giselle Minoli
April 3, 2012 at 3:47 pm
Good morning Friends.
April 4, 2012 at 1:44 am
That’s also my favorite type of Tango… no question about it. Still trying to master it. Some day I shall.
April 4, 2012 at 2:47 am
I remember that video Jack C Crawford I think it was a fashion video, no, but with dance in it??? I might even have posted it but can’t go back that far.
Matthew Graybosch once again you made me laugh. I can see you dancing the Tango….and I can hear your instructor begging you to stop! Priceless.
April 4, 2012 at 2:57 am
I’m with you on the “still trying to master it” part Doriano Paisano Carta. My preference is to watch older dancers, those who have been at it for so many years, like Flamenco dancers, there is so much feeling there, so much life lived and so many loves loved…that it all goes into the dance. One of my instructors turned me on to a man named Juan Carlos Copes…very few videos of him around because he was doing it before the video age, but if you YouTube him you can find them…the elegance there is extraordinary. Very classical. Not milonga style. Here’s a link: Juan Carlos Copes y Johana Copes – La Cumparsita
April 4, 2012 at 3:03 am
Jack C Crawford Giselle Minoli
It was 100 years of London fashion…
100 YEARS / STYLE / EAST LONDON
April 4, 2012 at 3:05 am
“… so much feeling there”
I have heard that expression, about dance [ and other artistic expression ] that at some point, it’s less about “thinking” about what to do from the mind and more to do about “feeling” the spirit.
April 4, 2012 at 3:05 am
That was it, Eddie K. Thank you! Same director????
April 4, 2012 at 3:09 am
I just got home from my Tuesday night private instruction Eddie K. I do an hour with my partner, and then we work with his wife together (they used to compete). We are working on a bolero and several times she instructed me to close my eyes and just “feel.” Works like magic. You do have to know the steps…but sometimes they come more easily if you get “out of your head” and “into your body.” I really believe that inside we are all dancers, all singers, all poets…inside our hearts where the emotion lies…we are all artists…
April 4, 2012 at 3:09 am
I don’t think so Giselle Minoli. The London fashion bit was from Jake Lunt, and I think the choreographer extraordinaire was also the hand behind the lens, Trish Sie for OK Go?
April 4, 2012 at 3:16 am
Eddie K Ah…so that’s the tie-in that Jack C Crawford recognized…the style. Six Degrees of Separation in the artistic world…
April 4, 2012 at 3:45 am
You must send me the video of the Red Rogue doing the Tango Siamak Manzarpour. In fact, I want the bootleg copy!
April 4, 2012 at 9:54 am
Siamak Manzarpour The 3D version was downloaded automatically to the Nintendo 3DS if the video app is loaded. By the way, there is a free weekly tango night at the MIT with free lessons… I think its a student organized event.
April 5, 2012 at 2:14 am
I am so happy you all like this video that I’m going to do this the old-fashioned way and thank each of you who +1’d it: Rehan Ahmad Colin Lucas-Mudd Kena Herod Jack C Crawford Ayoub Khote Eddie K Doriano Paisano Carta Bob Lai Honor Lai Gnotic Pasta Walter H Groth Angela Lacy Satu-Marja Salmi Bill Abrams Anna Baty séain Gutridge +Seiichi KASAMA Gary Stockton Murat Dicle TwiggyNM Mahanjana Mina Haroun +Mira Abu-Salem Samuel Dumas +Roderick Lazaro +Jimmy Lux +Imre Samu +Santos Sagar Stephen Gomez Philip Huff simon o Paul Nahas Kent Goertzen Esther Schindler Bryce Hernsdorf Eric Ziegler Azita Rassi Donna Smith and Misha Belle. Whew. Why do I think I forgot someone?
April 5, 2012 at 2:27 am
And let me not forgot those who shared it: dawn ahukanna Honor Lai Angela Lacy Sue Butler Brett Zane-Ulman Murat Dicle Vivek JV angelo meneghini +Darrel Sadanand Samuel Dumas +Mina Haroun Misha Belle Fred Robel Em Wells +Frederick Reich Erika Elena Rodriguez and Ekaterine Tsokilauri and I know I am leaving someone out here too…apologies. Thank you all very much for bringing a smile to my face these past two days…
April 11, 2012 at 2:00 pm
I am a dancer. There is nothing quite like Argentine Tango for sweeping you away into sensual, beautiful soulful connection with another human. I miss it.
April 11, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Ah… Jennifer Tackman a woman after my own heart. There is nothing like the Argentine Tango in all of dance. It is hard to describe to someone who has not known it! I have to travel a great distance to dance with the person who taught me (and I am a novice…believe me!)…but it’s worth it.
April 14, 2012 at 11:37 pm
marcia litt, this is the video and conversation i told you about on the phone today.
June 27, 2014 at 6:11 am
You’re hot.
September 7, 2015 at 12:00 am
Giselle Minoli
I love you.