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First milonga: Le Latina, in Paris
Second year abroad in France while in graduate school, this time in Lyon. For the past several years, I have a vague notion that I want...
Tango Shoes and Objects of Desire
First obligatory trip to Comme il faut, Recoleta, Buenos Aires, 2008 Everyone is talking about these shoes and my desire needs to be...
Milonga Architecture
Over the years I will be drawn to many other dance halls and milongas, where the spaces are never quite the same: a grand dance hall from...
La Milonga: Una Puerta de escape
Eight years after I start dancing, when as a tango dancer I finally make my first trip down to Buenos Aires, I already know some of the...
Discovering Tango and Finding a Home
Fall 2001: I discovered tango almost by accident, in Lyon, France, in the midst of a welcome second year of studies abroad after spending...
Asi es la milonga!
Argentine tango is, what I like to call, a narrative dance: it moves forward, counterclockwise, in the line of dance, moving around an...
Dancing with Descartes
For several years, I had been working on the semiotics of tango, something I thought of calling, in reference to Roland Barthes, Tango...
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