Riccardo in A'dam: Argentine Tango

First of all a link to my favourite tango sites:

My all time favourite tango clip! LIENTANGO.
Lientango manages to catch the essence of Argentine tango, the milonga, the social dance, the dancers, the joy of hugging together and letting the music take you somewhere else, in a beautiful place. Tango can be everything, all you want it to be, like life.

http://www.joegrohens.com/tango/index.html (My first teachers)
http://www.milonguero.nl/ (Personal page - a couple of my teachers)
http://www.torito.nl/ (Everything about tango in the Netherlands/Belgium)
http://www.tangomuse.com/ (Personal page. Yale)
http://www.sharnafabiano.com/ (Personal page. DC)
http://www.muraterdemsel.com/ (Personal page. NYC)
http://www.gustavoygiselle.com/ (Great dancers!!)
http://www.tejastango.com/ (Personal page of Stephen and Susan Brown's. Very interesting)
http://home.earthlink.net/~rmcgarreysprint014/ (Personal page with photos of old milongueros dancing)
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~tango/about.htm (The tango club I directed during my PhD years together with webmaster/dancer/teacher/ex-girlfriend Melanie)
http://www.todotango.com/ (The bible for a tango aficionado "Sitio declarado de interes nacional" by the Country of Argentina)
http://www.tangostore.com/home.php?lang=e (Music store from Argentina)
http://pythia.uoregon.edu/~llynch/Tango-L/ (Mailing list. Interesting at first, a little boring after a while)
http://www.tangonoticias.com/ (Monthly magazine from Chicago)
http://www.lacadena.nl/ (Monthly magazine from The Netherlands)

Milongas in Buenos Aires

My first tango workshop (Indianapolis, summer 2001)

Left to right: Me, Alberto (Colombia), Deniz Ushrev (Turky), Ricardo Bartosik (Argentina), Edie Cassell (Indy), Rafael Gomez (Colombia), Ascen (Spain), Isaac Portilla (Spain)

Sunday morning workshop with Fred and Yermen Romero (Nov 2003, West Lafayette, IN)

Fred and Yermen demonstrating one of the steps in one of the rooms on campus.
I think this was the first workshop organized by me at Purdue.

Group picture after the workshop. I am the one behind the camera.

My very last lesson as instructor for the beginners/intermediate at Purdue (Spring 2004, West Lafayette)

The atmosphere of joy that I used to breath in our tango group at Purdue is something I'll always carry with me. It was a real pleasure to teach and share what others had taught me. This picture was taken for my very last lesson. It was quite late in the semester and we were already in the finals week and so the majority of people was at home studying. What you see here is the real hard core of our dancers.

Forever Tango show on Broadway with Mark and Kausar (NYC, August 2004)
I was so excited to go and watch Forever Tango!
It was totally unexpected finding it there during my visit and getting the discounted tickets after only 1/2 hr queueing under the rain :)
Fred and Yermen learnt from Gavito and Marcela during their stay in Chicago with the first production of Forever Tango, so this show has a special meaning for me.

Milonga along the "quais sur la Senne" (Summer 2005)

Milonga "El Cielo" in Amsterdam (venue: dancestreet)

Here is the milonga "El Cielo", the only milonga in Amsterdam dedicated to Milonguero style tango.
I'm on the dance floor too.. can you spot me? ;)

Then some of my tango friends in Amsterdam...
Eugene and Jonne...

Ariane and Marcos

Natasha

Milonga at "Tango Colon" in Koeln, Germany (Nov 26th 2005)

"Tango Colon" is a great place, with many good local dancers and attracting a number of dancers from all over Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and also Switzerland.
The venue is an old factory and has really a great feeling of young, tango-squatter community. Old furniture, comfy old couches, pictures of the dancers, heavy chandeliers...
The upstairs is converted in a communial sleeping room where the dancers can retire at any point of the night/morning and drop dead on their matresses. In the morning/early afternoon, the guests will find a good frustuck and a boiling hot shower waiting for them before heading home with good memories of the night before.

Here are a few pics I took of the place. It's usually very crowded and I took these pics a bit early in the evening.

Moira and Cous

The owner of the place (together with her companion, Stefan) dancing with a local dancer.

Milonga de los jovenes with Laura

Tango pajama party with "los jovenes" (Amsterdam Jan 20 2007)

From left: Natasha, Ariane and me on Natasha's sleeping-bag

Me and Ariane and some of the local beauties frm Academia :)

Two of "our own" beauties, Bregje (left) and Natasha getting the prize for best costumes

Pilar (left) and Natasha on the sleeping-bag

Bregje and Natasha in full costume and Teddy "bears"

Natasha's "teddy duck"... I know...

Some of my favourite Tangos

Astor Piazzolla
Escualo
Zum

Osvaldo Fresedo
El Mareo
Niebla Del Riachuelo
Mariposita
La Clavada
Sollozos
Vida Mia

Edgardo Donato
La Melodia Del Corazon

Rodolfo Biagi
Yuyo verde
Union Civica
Lagrimas Y Sonrisas
Loca De Amor
Dichas Que Vivi
Trenzas

Buenos Aires and its Milongas

Milonga "La Trastienda" (Balcare 460)

Confiteria Ideal. You may have seen it in the movies "The Tango Lesson" or "Tango" by Carlos Saura. (Suipacha 384, 1º piso)

Tango videos from the internet

Tete y silvia (Tango)