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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...

First obligatory trip to Comme il faut, Recoleta, Buenos Aires, 2008 Everyone is talking about these shoes and my desire needs to be...

After many years of working on this paper on and off, I'm thrilled to soon see it published in Mosaic, an interdisciplinary journal of...

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...

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...

Fall 2001: I discovered tango almost by accident, in Lyon, France, in the midst of a welcome second year of studies abroad after spending...

Argentine tango is, what I like to call, a narrative dance: it moves forward, counterclockwise, in the line of dance, moving around an...

He stands there still After all these years, With aches and pains, His tears, sapped out, Old weathered limbs, Mossy yearnings ...

Et le Soleil, éreinté par le vacarme de la cité disparu soudainement derrière l’ombre d’un ortolan. Et le Soleil tellement...

For several years, I had been working on the semiotics of tango, something I thought of calling, in reference to Roland Barthes, Tango...