Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Codes of Coexistence Among Milongueros :: PROHIBIDO HABLAR AL BAILAR
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Codes of Coexistence Among Milongueros :: CIRCULACI脫N OBLIGATORIA DE LA PISTA
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DEAR FRIENDS MILONGUEROS DE ARGENTINA AND THE WORLD !!! 馃寧
馃敟HOY馃敟 We finally arrive at the last short of the milonguera and educational production of www.hoy-milonga.com "CODES OF COEXISTENCE AMONG MILONGUEROS"
馃巵 For those who could not come, I tell you that this video we premiered with all the emotion of being all together, last Friday, November 10 at the unforgettable birthday party No. 5 of our site 馃帄 Great party great jejeje馃巿
We present the last two codes ⭕ "MANDATORY CIRCULATION IN THE TRACK" & also the most important and essential code of all for THERE TO BE GENUINE AND REAL TANGO ...
❤ "OBLIGATORY DANCING WITH THE HEART" ❤
With you, the beautiful people who made this possible: (THANK YOU, THANK YOU AND MORE THANKS FOR ALL WE WANT THEM !!!)
Retorted that go backwards on the track:
Atilio Veron Mi Refugio with
Susanna Pirjo Rapo (from Hoy Milonga)
And the Nadias of Hoy Milonga, Nadia Funes & Nadia Spens
"The" Master who comes to put order on the track, our beloved dancer, director, choreographer of a lot of tango and great heart ... Olga Besioooooo Olga Besio II Olga Besio Olga Besio
Master musicians who sweetened our ears and lit our legs !!!
Duet "Salvando las Distancias" Fernando Rezk on bandoneon and Miguel Barci on guitar
Milongueros dancing with all their hearts
Adriana Argentina Frossasco
Omar Viola
Martin Chili
Suyai Serpa
Manuel Gonzalez
Majo Marini
German Ballejo
Magdalena Gutierrez
Carla Tango Tango
Maria Oliva
Federico Piperno
Karin Dhadamus
Niv Sardi
Roberto Ubaldo Soto
Daniel Ricardo Adra
Natalia Pe帽a
Tamara Valdivia Mio Tango
Susana Beia
Jorge Nelson Farias L
Noe Andino
Leonardo Salvador Guerra
Leonardo Chinchilla
*** If someone was missing, please let us know! Sometimes it can happen, we are many and there is a lot of work :)
馃挏 Thanks again everyone, everyone! For this beautiful experience, for having put the heart to all the filming, for the laughter, the jokes, for the endurance of always !!!! We hug them strong strong❤
馃挏 Thanks Doris Bennan, you were right "Los Laureles" has that thing that makes everything look spectacular !!!
Visual production: Colectivo Ladran Caravana a first class team, not only professionally but humanly, thanks Luz Bala帽a, Cristian and Jeremias Ferreri for everything, everything and for having come to premiere with us and to share a night that we will never forget 馃挏
Meet them! https://hoy-milonga.com/.../Buenos-Aires*...
THIS IS THE LAST OF THIS SERIES, BUT IT IS NOT THE END ... WE REJECT! 馃敟
馃挏 FOR MANY MORE THINGS, ALWAYS TOGETHER MILONGUEROS 馃挏
THANK YOU UNTIL PRONTITO ...
#hoymilonga #prohibidohablaralbailar #codigosdeconvivencia #tango #ilovetango # la2x4
QUERIDOS AMIGOS MILONGUEROS DE ARGENTINA Y DEL MUNDO!!!馃寧
馃敟HOY馃敟 LLegamos al fin al 煤ltimo corto de la producci贸n milonguera y educativa de www.hoy-milonga.com "C脫DIGOS DE CONVIVENCIA ENTRE MILONGUEROS"
馃巵 Para los que no pudieron venir, les cuento que este video lo estrenamos con toda la emoci贸n de estar todos juntos, el pasado Viernes 10 de Noviembre en la inolvidable fiesta de cumplea帽os N潞 5 de nuestro sitio 馃帄 Gran fiesta gran jejeje馃巿
Les presentamos los dos 煤ltimos c贸digos ⭕ "CIRCULACI脫N OBLIGATORIA EN LA PISTA" & adem谩s el c贸digo mas importante y escencial de todos para que HAYA TANGO GENUINO Y REAL...
❤ "OBLIGATORIO BAILAR CON EL CORAZ脫N" ❤
Con ustedes, la gente hermosa que hizo esto posible: ( GRACIAS, GRACIAS Y MAS GRACIAS POR TODO LOS QUEREMOS!!! )
Retobados que van al rev茅s en la pista:
Atilio Veron Mi Refugio con
Susanna Pirjo Rapo ( de Hoy Milonga )
Y las Nadias de Hoy Milonga, Nadia Funes & Nadia Spens
"La" Maestra que viene a poner orden en la pista, nuestra tan querida bailarina, directora, core贸grafa de mucho tango y gran coraz贸n...Olga Besioooooo Olga Besio II Olga Besio Olga Besio
Maestros m煤sicos que nos endulzaron los o铆dos y nos encendieron las patas!!!
D煤o "Salvando las Distancias" Fernando Rezk en bandone贸n y Miguel Barci en guitarra
Milongueros bailando con todo el coraz贸n
Adriana Argentina Frossasco
Omar Viola
Martin Chili
Suyai Serpa
Manuel Gonzalez
Majo Marini
German Ballejo
Magdalena Gutierrez
Carla Tango Tango
Maria Oliva
Federico Piperno
Karin Dhadamus
Niv Sardi
Roberto Ubaldo Soto
Daniel Ricardo Adra
Natalia Pe帽a
Tamara Valdivia Mio Tango
Susana Beia
Jorge Nelson Farias L
Noe Andino
Leonardo Salvador Guerra
Leonardo Chinchilla
***Si falt贸 nombrar a alguien por favor avisennos!!! A veces puede pasar, somos muchos y hay mucho trabajo :)
馃挏 Gracias nuevamente a todos , a todos!!! Por esta hermosa experiencia, por haberle puesto el coraz贸n a toda la filmaci贸n, por las risas, los chistes, por el aguante de siempre!!!! Los abrazamos fuerte fuerte❤
馃挏 Gracias Doris Bennan , ten铆as raz贸n "Los Laureles" tiene esa cosa que hace que todo salga espectacular!!!
Producci贸n visual: Colectivo Ladran Caravana un equipo de primera, no solo a nivel profesional sino humano, gracias Luz Bala帽a, Cristian y Jeremias Ferreri por todo, todo y por haber venido a estrenar con nosotros y a compartir una noche que nunca olvidaremos 馃挏
Conoc茅los!! https://hoy-milonga.com/…/Buenos-Aires*…
馃敟ESTE ES EL 脷LTIMO DE ESTA SERIE PERO NO ES EL FINAL...RECI脡N ARRANCAMOS!!!! 馃敟
馃挏 POR MUCHAS COSAS MAS, SIEMPRE JUNTOS MILONGUEROS 馃挏
GRACIAS HASTA PRONTITO...
#hoymilonga #prohibidohablaralbailar #codigosdeconvivencia #tango #ilovetango #la2x4
Hoy Milonga Buenos Aires Milonga Guide
For those of you planning a trip to Buenos Aires....and apparently there's a mobile app...also for Paris and Berlin...
https://www.hoy-milonga.com/buenos-aires/en
Brought to you by Hector Villar of Hoy-Milonga.com
Hoy Milonga Facebook Page
Hoy-Milonga Mobile Apps here.
https://www.hoy-milonga.com/buenos-aires/en
Brought to you by Hector Villar of Hoy-Milonga.com
Hoy Milonga Facebook Page
Hoy-Milonga Mobile Apps here.
Juan Lencina Bailarin Natural :: Los Milongueros Interviews
From Juan Tango's YouTube channel:
Click on CC for English subtitles. Argentine tango dancer tells what it feels like to dance the tango. Juan Lencina is a very charismatic tango dancer and storyteller who promotes milongas in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Monday and Thursday nights Juan Lencina and Daniel Rezk are the organizers of the milongas Derecho Viejo and La Cachila at Club Gricel. The reason that Juan's story is important is because the older dancers that experienced firsthand the tango craze of the 40s and early 50s are disappearing and their presence in the milongas cannot be replaced or underestimated.
Juancito began to dance for the natural reason, to meet girls. The milongas of the 40s and 50s didn't have older dancers like the milongas today, they only had young dancers. His neighbor Finito became a very famous dancer and has been called the best dancer of his generation. Juan enjoys seeing dancers from other countries come to Buenos Aires to dance each year and to watch them improve as a result of their contact with the Argentine dancers.
Juan became a tango maestro as a logical consequence from his experience learning and teaching in the practicas with his friends. He had a long career as a tango professor and taught in all of the best places in Buenos Aires. When he began to organize milongas in the 1990s he began to meet young dancer that were also interested in becoming tango maestros and it occurred to him that like everything in life you have to help the next generation become successful, so Juan gave these young professors the opportunity to teach in his milongas. He was invited to go to France and teach in 2008 and really enjoyed the experience.
Juan never had a desire to compete in contests. He feels that competitive dancing lacks the heart and soul of tango. He feels that every dancer should incorporate their own personality and uniqueness into their personal dance style. He appears to be singing the lyrics to the songs he dances to, but he doesn't actually use his voice. He feels that you shouldn't talk or whistle or sing while you dance. Juan definitely has his own personal style and you will never see anyone dance like he does.
To learn more about Tango in Buenos Aires go to: http://lamilongadel126.blogspot.com.ar/
Tango Marathon Man :: Los Milongueros Interviews
Roberto Segarra 96 Year Old Tango Dancer
From Juan Tango's YouTube channel:
96 year old Argentine Tango dancer tells his story. Click CC for English Subtitles. Roberto Segarra was playing cards with a group of friends prior to the interview which took place in May of 2011 at Club Liber Piemont. Most of the video footage was shot in Marta Fama's Wednesday night milonga El Rodriguez https://www.hoy-milonga.com/buenos-aires/en
Roberto's 96 th birthday dance footage was shot on September 16, 2016 at Obelisco Tango in the Friday night Milonga de Buenos Aires. The final performance and the pictures of Roberto with his family and friends were shot at Club Fulgor in May 2011. Roberto was being honored for his lifelong contribution to tango.
Bonus material
The first dance that I went to was held in a dance hall that no longer exists and I am not sure there is anyone who knows it but it was called the “Lido de Palermo” (Lido of Palermo) and was located over there in the “Palermo Chico” area, as it's called over here, you know, “Palermo Chico”. I think it was on Juez Estrada Street, with the Osvaldo Fresedo Orchestra and the “Santa Paula Serenaders”.
There was a tango academy where there is now the Bachin Restaurant … er, no, Pippo … where Pippo is now. You know Pippo? … There, on Montevideo, between Corrientes and Sarmiento, a restaurant, Pippo. Well, there used to be a big hall … named “Academia Pedro” but they did not really teach there. They had female employees who would all dance very well, they were all tango teachers, and guys would go there to dance since they knew they would be dancing well. Because at that time, when you were starting to learn to dance, those who already knew would tell you “you need to go to the dance and ask out women who know how to dance well because that way you are going to learn faster. Don't ask ... as the tango says “no saqu茅s paquetes que dan pisotones” (Don't ask out a “paquete” that will step on you. – Paquete is argentinian lunfardo for “a clumsy, heavy or overweight person.” ) … [unintelligible] … (Laughing) That's the way it is. They would teach you to ask out women who were good dancers … even it was only for a single song … even if she did not want to dance with you again … but at least you danced with a partner that danced well. That's what your elders taught you, and that's what we did … those of us that could. Of course, when you already knew how to dance well, you did not mind the feet as much, you started caring more about the woman who you asked out than her feet or footwork.
(Talking about during the 1970s and 1980s ) Even though the tango had not reached the stage where it is now, but there were places (to dance). There were definitely some places. There were just a few places but then it began to grow thanks to Piazzolla. Because Piazzolla was the one that started taking the tango abroad, in its classic form but he … Here's what I think: there are two people to whom we owe what tango is now. One of them was D'Arienzo in 1935 and Piazzolla in the Seventies or Eighties. Those were the two that raised the tango and tango is what it is now thanks to them. We have to be thankful to them. To learn more about Tango in Buenos Aires go to:
http://lamilongadel126.blogspot.com.ar/
From Juan Tango's YouTube channel:
96 year old Argentine Tango dancer tells his story. Click CC for English Subtitles. Roberto Segarra was playing cards with a group of friends prior to the interview which took place in May of 2011 at Club Liber Piemont. Most of the video footage was shot in Marta Fama's Wednesday night milonga El Rodriguez https://www.hoy-milonga.com/buenos-aires/en
Roberto's 96 th birthday dance footage was shot on September 16, 2016 at Obelisco Tango in the Friday night Milonga de Buenos Aires. The final performance and the pictures of Roberto with his family and friends were shot at Club Fulgor in May 2011. Roberto was being honored for his lifelong contribution to tango.
Bonus material
The first dance that I went to was held in a dance hall that no longer exists and I am not sure there is anyone who knows it but it was called the “Lido de Palermo” (Lido of Palermo) and was located over there in the “Palermo Chico” area, as it's called over here, you know, “Palermo Chico”. I think it was on Juez Estrada Street, with the Osvaldo Fresedo Orchestra and the “Santa Paula Serenaders”.
There was a tango academy where there is now the Bachin Restaurant … er, no, Pippo … where Pippo is now. You know Pippo? … There, on Montevideo, between Corrientes and Sarmiento, a restaurant, Pippo. Well, there used to be a big hall … named “Academia Pedro” but they did not really teach there. They had female employees who would all dance very well, they were all tango teachers, and guys would go there to dance since they knew they would be dancing well. Because at that time, when you were starting to learn to dance, those who already knew would tell you “you need to go to the dance and ask out women who know how to dance well because that way you are going to learn faster. Don't ask ... as the tango says “no saqu茅s paquetes que dan pisotones” (Don't ask out a “paquete” that will step on you. – Paquete is argentinian lunfardo for “a clumsy, heavy or overweight person.” ) … [unintelligible] … (Laughing) That's the way it is. They would teach you to ask out women who were good dancers … even it was only for a single song … even if she did not want to dance with you again … but at least you danced with a partner that danced well. That's what your elders taught you, and that's what we did … those of us that could. Of course, when you already knew how to dance well, you did not mind the feet as much, you started caring more about the woman who you asked out than her feet or footwork.
(Talking about during the 1970s and 1980s ) Even though the tango had not reached the stage where it is now, but there were places (to dance). There were definitely some places. There were just a few places but then it began to grow thanks to Piazzolla. Because Piazzolla was the one that started taking the tango abroad, in its classic form but he … Here's what I think: there are two people to whom we owe what tango is now. One of them was D'Arienzo in 1935 and Piazzolla in the Seventies or Eighties. Those were the two that raised the tango and tango is what it is now thanks to them. We have to be thankful to them. To learn more about Tango in Buenos Aires go to:
http://lamilongadel126.blogspot.com.ar/
Monday, February 19, 2018
Vania's most excellent efficacious quintessential foundational core small space tango rudiments for tango ruminants
ef·fi·ca·cious
藢ef蓹藞k膩SH蓹s
adjectiveformal
(typically of something inanimate or abstract) successful in producing a desired or intended result; effective.
I'm taking a small space workshop with Vania, here in Austin. Or small space sequences. Small space technique fundamentals. A perfect and on-purpose choice of topic leading right up to the Austin Spring Tango Festival, and on the heels of a...uh, how shall I say it?...a milonga with less-than-optimal floorcraft several weeks ago. Apparently some boleos were thrown that made contact. No bueno. Otherwise generally chaotic. However, I wasn't there - assumptions based on what I've heard.
Just to get this out of the way, I think we can all agree that "small space sequences" are key to manifesting a milonga with good floorcraft, and further, manifesting good floorcraft within a community, and finally, manifesting good floorcraft within oneself, in one's own dancing. If you ain't dancin' tango with good floorcraft, you ain't dancin' tango. Bub. Bubba. Tango Bubba. I think I've just coined some new tango terminology!
So, that said, this morning I was going to share the next event - Week 3 - in a Facebook post, and I wanted to say something about how much I like these classes, the subject matter, her teaching style and teaching knowledge. Being the man of few words that I am, what popped into the primordial soup first was "amazing". Then "stupendous". Stupid, weak words. So as I was hunting for my big, thick, dog-eared thesaurus on my bookshelves, other words like "important", "of vital importance", "fundamentals", "core" all popped into my head.
Y'all who know me know I'm not one to gush. Especially about tango teachers or tango teaching or classes and workshops. Truth be told, I haven't taken many classes for the past several years. Mostly "a la carte" stuff at the ASTF - favored topics, wanting to add a thing or two to my "tango roll-o-dex of moves". Baring my soul, I feel like my repertoire is limited. Not that there's not a lot of tango shit, "happy horseshit" as one of my oldest teachers used to say, in there, in my primordial soup, it just doesn't come out. I've forgotten the vast majority of my "learnings" from my first four or five years of pretty profoundly intensive study of tango. Lots of teachers, lots of local classes from my maestra local teacher, lots of festival classes & weekend workshops, lots of privates, and a handful of intensive intensivos, and a shitload of money and time. Almost too much information. But I figgered I would let it percolate and steep and soak into my bones. So much information that I didn't care to or dare to take a class. For a long time. Until now. Until Ms. Vania.
The more I dance, the more stuff bubbles up to the surface. The more I remember "stuff" that I forgot to remember not to forget. "Tango stuff". I'm dancing more now, and practicing at home, but for about five or six years there I was in a dry spell. A Tango Drought. When you're thirsty a little bit of tango can go a long way. I was only dancing a few times a year. For the past almost three years, Sugar G and I are dancing 3-4 times a month, if not more, now.
So I've focused on my few things. The old standbys. My embrace. My walk. My ocho cortado. Some cross-footed happy horseshit. My molinete and some fairly extensive variations. My cross footed anti-clockwise rotating rock step. An occasional 1/2 back ocho. An occasional 1/2 front ocho. My never ever sandwichito. An enganche/leg wrap thingy. Really only one of those that I can think of. No real sacadas, except for a tiny one in this milonguero double clockwise giro that I do. A standard issue volcada. Sometimes a double volcada. Obviously la cruzada, which surprisingly I tend to forget about, or not think about - I guess because it just happens "absent conscious thought". Which is a good thing I suppose. I think I'm pretty good with my musicality. I walk when the music tells me to walk, and I do stuff when the music tells me to do stuff. (I'm being humble and modest.) (In my humility after Sugar G and I finished a vals at practica yesterday I said "well I pretty much nailed the shit out of that one". She laughed. Cuz she knows me. Truly madly deeply.) And pretty good with tying it all together into a cohesive mass. One song at a time, one tanda at a time. (Sidenote: it frustrates the hell out of me that no one else (or rarely) hears it when the music says "WALK, FUCKING WALK. NOW. DUDE.")
So. I have my YouTube playlist "Tango Stuff to Work On" that I've been tucking videos into cubby holes for future reference. Future study/practice/work. I have my G&G videos from their four day intensivo in Atlanta way back when. I'm delving into all that (and more) a little more. A lot more I suppose. I'm missing a milonguero dip. Haven't been able to learn that one, although I haven't really tried. I feel myself wanting to add a thing or two or three. My happy horseshit type stuff. More "fun" stuff? I can't believe I'm even saying that. Sometimes, I get bored with my own lead. I beat myself up that I'm being repetitive, and that surely the followers much feel it, and that they too must be bored. I know I'm wrong about this, at least that's what I tell myself. I can't shake the self-downing stuff though. Maybe it's normal nature of the beast type shit. Or maybe it's just me. Who knows.
So. Festival coming up. Gotta work on smaller more interesting stuff, more variety in small sequences. Maybe I won't get so pissed about all the bad floorcraft if I have more to focus on in my own little space. Bad floorcraft pisses me off. Probably too much. I need to be more tolerant and compassionate. Sometimes to the point that I just leave. The milonga. I suppose I'm known for my disappearing act. Less now with Sugar G. Less disappearing. (Stay tuned for another post on floorcraft, the good, the bad, and the ugly. The elephant in the room no one wants to talk about.)
Not just for the festival, but for everywhere all the time. Small Is Beautiful. I have the book on my bookshelves. Not about tango, but you get my drift. Smaller more interesting stuff and a few happy horseshit items.
That would make me a happy dancer. Not that I'm an unhappy dancer. I don't think.
So. Lo and behold, Vania decides to make this the topic of her current four week workshop. Sweet. The tango stars align.
Back to the gushing part. And the Thesaurus part. Searching for words to adequately describe what I'm thinking and feeling after two of Ms. Vania's most excellent classes. So amazing and stupendous are out. 4th grade words. I look up "fundamental". Noun. essence 5.2 foundation 216.6 important point 676.6
essence 5.2: intrinsically quintessence elixir core heart soul spirit - those all pretty much nail it.
foundation 216.6: base basis groundwork fundamental principle rudiment terra firma - yes to all those, too. Grounded. Grounding. Ground. Earth.
important point (importance) 672.6: essential, fundamental, gist, heart, meat, core, crux
And then this one popped out somewhere - I saw it, but then I couldn't find it again...efficacious. A word I know but rarely/never use.
efficacious (adj): capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.:
intrinsic stands out: 1480-90; < Medieval Latin intrinsecus inward (adj.), Latin (adv.), equivalent to intrin- (int(e)r-, as in interior + -im adv. suffix) + secus beside, derivative of sequ墨 to follow
synonyms: 1. native, innate, natural, true, real. See essential.
Vania's most excellent efficacious quintessential foundational core small space tango rudiments for tango ruminants
Vania's Tango Elixir
Vania's Quintessential Tango Elixir
Okay, now I fear I'm sound like some obsessive compulsive sick fuck type stalker.
Let's just say her classes are "really good", and she's a "really good" tango teacher.
I always love it when my posts ramble around over hill and dale and always come back to the core. The crux.
It's hard to describe how and why her classes are "really good".
Good foundational core crux posture suspension type stuff. I'm falling short here.
Nuances of stuff related to where your thoracic vertebrae stop and where your lumbar vertebrae start and the kinesthesiology of how to properly engage that in the dynamic embrace. Subtleties of where/how/why the leader needs to have his (or her) weight on his forefoot and stand on his leg and originate the pivot in the torso/frame and not with the trailing leg.
Without being all scientific or medical or didactic, but all flowy and natural-like.
Concise and clear.
She's a really good teacher.
World class.
Right here in Austin.
And at the upcoming Tucson Tango Festival.
If you get a chance to study with her, do.
Your tango will be the better for it.
And your tango will thank you.
Your tango partners will thank you.
Avail thyself.
And she also covered nuances and subtleties of cabeceo - as a side-topic.
And she spent a good amount of the class on #goodfloorcraft.
"She's a really good teacher."
File under #floorcraft #deeptangothought #deeptangotechnique #deeptangoteaching
(Stay tuned for another post on floorcraft, the good, the bad, and the ugly. The elephant in the room no one wants to talk about.)
藢ef蓹藞k膩SH蓹s
adjectiveformal
(typically of something inanimate or abstract) successful in producing a desired or intended result; effective.
I'm taking a small space workshop with Vania, here in Austin. Or small space sequences. Small space technique fundamentals. A perfect and on-purpose choice of topic leading right up to the Austin Spring Tango Festival, and on the heels of a...uh, how shall I say it?...a milonga with less-than-optimal floorcraft several weeks ago. Apparently some boleos were thrown that made contact. No bueno. Otherwise generally chaotic. However, I wasn't there - assumptions based on what I've heard.
Just to get this out of the way, I think we can all agree that "small space sequences" are key to manifesting a milonga with good floorcraft, and further, manifesting good floorcraft within a community, and finally, manifesting good floorcraft within oneself, in one's own dancing. If you ain't dancin' tango with good floorcraft, you ain't dancin' tango. Bub. Bubba. Tango Bubba. I think I've just coined some new tango terminology!
So, that said, this morning I was going to share the next event - Week 3 - in a Facebook post, and I wanted to say something about how much I like these classes, the subject matter, her teaching style and teaching knowledge. Being the man of few words that I am, what popped into the primordial soup first was "amazing". Then "stupendous". Stupid, weak words. So as I was hunting for my big, thick, dog-eared thesaurus on my bookshelves, other words like "important", "of vital importance", "fundamentals", "core" all popped into my head.
Y'all who know me know I'm not one to gush. Especially about tango teachers or tango teaching or classes and workshops. Truth be told, I haven't taken many classes for the past several years. Mostly "a la carte" stuff at the ASTF - favored topics, wanting to add a thing or two to my "tango roll-o-dex of moves". Baring my soul, I feel like my repertoire is limited. Not that there's not a lot of tango shit, "happy horseshit" as one of my oldest teachers used to say, in there, in my primordial soup, it just doesn't come out. I've forgotten the vast majority of my "learnings" from my first four or five years of pretty profoundly intensive study of tango. Lots of teachers, lots of local classes from my maestra local teacher, lots of festival classes & weekend workshops, lots of privates, and a handful of intensive intensivos, and a shitload of money and time. Almost too much information. But I figgered I would let it percolate and steep and soak into my bones. So much information that I didn't care to or dare to take a class. For a long time. Until now. Until Ms. Vania.
The more I dance, the more stuff bubbles up to the surface. The more I remember "stuff" that I forgot to remember not to forget. "Tango stuff". I'm dancing more now, and practicing at home, but for about five or six years there I was in a dry spell. A Tango Drought. When you're thirsty a little bit of tango can go a long way. I was only dancing a few times a year. For the past almost three years, Sugar G and I are dancing 3-4 times a month, if not more, now.
So I've focused on my few things. The old standbys. My embrace. My walk. My ocho cortado. Some cross-footed happy horseshit. My molinete and some fairly extensive variations. My cross footed anti-clockwise rotating rock step. An occasional 1/2 back ocho. An occasional 1/2 front ocho. My never ever sandwichito. An enganche/leg wrap thingy. Really only one of those that I can think of. No real sacadas, except for a tiny one in this milonguero double clockwise giro that I do. A standard issue volcada. Sometimes a double volcada. Obviously la cruzada, which surprisingly I tend to forget about, or not think about - I guess because it just happens "absent conscious thought". Which is a good thing I suppose. I think I'm pretty good with my musicality. I walk when the music tells me to walk, and I do stuff when the music tells me to do stuff. (I'm being humble and modest.) (In my humility after Sugar G and I finished a vals at practica yesterday I said "well I pretty much nailed the shit out of that one". She laughed. Cuz she knows me. Truly madly deeply.) And pretty good with tying it all together into a cohesive mass. One song at a time, one tanda at a time. (Sidenote: it frustrates the hell out of me that no one else (or rarely) hears it when the music says "WALK, FUCKING WALK. NOW. DUDE.")
So. I have my YouTube playlist "Tango Stuff to Work On" that I've been tucking videos into cubby holes for future reference. Future study/practice/work. I have my G&G videos from their four day intensivo in Atlanta way back when. I'm delving into all that (and more) a little more. A lot more I suppose. I'm missing a milonguero dip. Haven't been able to learn that one, although I haven't really tried. I feel myself wanting to add a thing or two or three. My happy horseshit type stuff. More "fun" stuff? I can't believe I'm even saying that. Sometimes, I get bored with my own lead. I beat myself up that I'm being repetitive, and that surely the followers much feel it, and that they too must be bored. I know I'm wrong about this, at least that's what I tell myself. I can't shake the self-downing stuff though. Maybe it's normal nature of the beast type shit. Or maybe it's just me. Who knows.
So. Festival coming up. Gotta work on smaller more interesting stuff, more variety in small sequences. Maybe I won't get so pissed about all the bad floorcraft if I have more to focus on in my own little space. Bad floorcraft pisses me off. Probably too much. I need to be more tolerant and compassionate. Sometimes to the point that I just leave. The milonga. I suppose I'm known for my disappearing act. Less now with Sugar G. Less disappearing. (Stay tuned for another post on floorcraft, the good, the bad, and the ugly. The elephant in the room no one wants to talk about.)
Not just for the festival, but for everywhere all the time. Small Is Beautiful. I have the book on my bookshelves. Not about tango, but you get my drift. Smaller more interesting stuff and a few happy horseshit items.
That would make me a happy dancer. Not that I'm an unhappy dancer. I don't think.
So. Lo and behold, Vania decides to make this the topic of her current four week workshop. Sweet. The tango stars align.
Back to the gushing part. And the Thesaurus part. Searching for words to adequately describe what I'm thinking and feeling after two of Ms. Vania's most excellent classes. So amazing and stupendous are out. 4th grade words. I look up "fundamental". Noun. essence 5.2 foundation 216.6 important point 676.6
essence 5.2: intrinsically quintessence elixir core heart soul spirit - those all pretty much nail it.
foundation 216.6: base basis groundwork fundamental principle rudiment terra firma - yes to all those, too. Grounded. Grounding. Ground. Earth.
important point (importance) 672.6: essential, fundamental, gist, heart, meat, core, crux
And then this one popped out somewhere - I saw it, but then I couldn't find it again...efficacious. A word I know but rarely/never use.
efficacious (adj): capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.:
intrinsic stands out: 1480-90; < Medieval Latin intrinsecus inward (adj.), Latin (adv.), equivalent to intrin- (int(e)r-, as in interior + -im adv. suffix) + secus beside, derivative of sequ墨 to follow
synonyms: 1. native, innate, natural, true, real. See essential.
Vania's most excellent efficacious quintessential foundational core small space tango rudiments for tango ruminants
Vania's Tango Elixir
Vania's Quintessential Tango Elixir
Okay, now I fear I'm sound like some obsessive compulsive sick fuck type stalker.
Let's just say her classes are "really good", and she's a "really good" tango teacher.
I always love it when my posts ramble around over hill and dale and always come back to the core. The crux.
It's hard to describe how and why her classes are "really good".
Good foundational core crux posture suspension type stuff. I'm falling short here.
Nuances of stuff related to where your thoracic vertebrae stop and where your lumbar vertebrae start and the kinesthesiology of how to properly engage that in the dynamic embrace. Subtleties of where/how/why the leader needs to have his (or her) weight on his forefoot and stand on his leg and originate the pivot in the torso/frame and not with the trailing leg.
Without being all scientific or medical or didactic, but all flowy and natural-like.
Concise and clear.
She's a really good teacher.
World class.
Right here in Austin.
And at the upcoming Tucson Tango Festival.
If you get a chance to study with her, do.
Your tango will be the better for it.
And your tango will thank you.
Your tango partners will thank you.
Avail thyself.
And she also covered nuances and subtleties of cabeceo - as a side-topic.
And she spent a good amount of the class on #goodfloorcraft.
"She's a really good teacher."
File under #floorcraft #deeptangothought #deeptangotechnique #deeptangoteaching
(Stay tuned for another post on floorcraft, the good, the bad, and the ugly. The elephant in the room no one wants to talk about.)
Monday, February 12, 2018
Steadicam Tango Cultural Appropriation
Y'all know how I feel about products stealing the name "Tango"...fuckers...although this one kinda makes more sense...a body mounted crane-cam stabilizer...
Oh wait...the motherfucker has trademarked TANGO™ ...that dog ain't gonna hunt...https://www.garrettcam.com/steadicam-tango/...not that he's going to start suing anyone over the use of the word...still it just rubs me the wrong way...
Oh wait...the motherfucker has trademarked TANGO™ ...that dog ain't gonna hunt...https://www.garrettcam.com/steadicam-tango/...not that he's going to start suing anyone over the use of the word...still it just rubs me the wrong way...
Cinefilia Tanguera 2018 Itinerant Tango Short Film Festival :: Deadline April 15, 2018
So there's a Tango Film Festival...!!! Even if it is for shorts/docs...pretty cool! Actually very cool...
https://cinefiliatanguera.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/open-submissions/
CINEFILIA TANGUERA 2018
DESCRIPTION
Cinefilia Tanguera is an Itinerant & International Short Film Festival linked to TANGO, not competitive.
Our primary objective is promote the tango and cinema, from an original perspective without dissemination and promotion anywhere in the world, as are the works of short films and documentaries about the identity of the tango in all sense.
Cinefilia Tanguera was already shown at Cagliari (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016), Barcelona (2009, 2016, 2017), Moscow, London (2009, 2013, 2016), Madrid (2009, 2016), 脕msterdam, Brussels, Catania, Hamburg, Jordan, Buenos Aires (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), Athens, Valladolid, Zurich, Bergen (Norway), Mil谩n, Eindhoven, Sassari (2012, 2016), Berlin, Paris, Crete (2016, 2017), Budapest, Tenerife, Formentera, Ibiza, Istanbul, Tokyo, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Bali, Bilbao, Montecarlo, Arles, Georgetown (Guyana) & Toronto.
OPEN SUBMISSSIONS
Cinefilia Tanguera opens the reception of material to complete the Official Selection, we are receiving the works of students of cinema’s studies, professional film makers, amateurs and dancers that are interested in exhibit their audiovisual works.
The 2018 tour will be global again, including at least 10 countries and 3 continents, Europe, Asia and America as destinations confirmed, and several more to confirm, thereby forming a new concept and dynamics.
The works should be short films (documentary, fiction, video-creation, video-clip, animation, making of etc), but we are also open to receive and display feature films. The films should have any type of connection with Tango, may it be musical, visual or conceptual.
Those interested in participating (participation not competitive nor financially rewarded) should send the work/s in a format that can be shown from a computer (DVD, mpg, mp4, mov, etc.) by official Registration, directly to info@cinefiliatanguera.com, or by the alternative of Cinema Platforms that we are part of.
Feel free to contact us for any question that you may have.
Deadline: APRIL 15, 2018.
Leonel Mitre
Executive Director
https://cinefiliatanguera.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/open-submissions/
https://cinefiliatanguera.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/open-submissions/
CINEFILIA TANGUERA 2018
DESCRIPTION
Cinefilia Tanguera is an Itinerant & International Short Film Festival linked to TANGO, not competitive.
Our primary objective is promote the tango and cinema, from an original perspective without dissemination and promotion anywhere in the world, as are the works of short films and documentaries about the identity of the tango in all sense.
Cinefilia Tanguera was already shown at Cagliari (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016), Barcelona (2009, 2016, 2017), Moscow, London (2009, 2013, 2016), Madrid (2009, 2016), 脕msterdam, Brussels, Catania, Hamburg, Jordan, Buenos Aires (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), Athens, Valladolid, Zurich, Bergen (Norway), Mil谩n, Eindhoven, Sassari (2012, 2016), Berlin, Paris, Crete (2016, 2017), Budapest, Tenerife, Formentera, Ibiza, Istanbul, Tokyo, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Bali, Bilbao, Montecarlo, Arles, Georgetown (Guyana) & Toronto.
OPEN SUBMISSSIONS
Cinefilia Tanguera opens the reception of material to complete the Official Selection, we are receiving the works of students of cinema’s studies, professional film makers, amateurs and dancers that are interested in exhibit their audiovisual works.
The 2018 tour will be global again, including at least 10 countries and 3 continents, Europe, Asia and America as destinations confirmed, and several more to confirm, thereby forming a new concept and dynamics.
The works should be short films (documentary, fiction, video-creation, video-clip, animation, making of etc), but we are also open to receive and display feature films. The films should have any type of connection with Tango, may it be musical, visual or conceptual.
Those interested in participating (participation not competitive nor financially rewarded) should send the work/s in a format that can be shown from a computer (DVD, mpg, mp4, mov, etc.) by official Registration, directly to info@cinefiliatanguera.com, or by the alternative of Cinema Platforms that we are part of.
Feel free to contact us for any question that you may have.
Deadline: APRIL 15, 2018.
Leonel Mitre
Executive Director
https://cinefiliatanguera.wordpress.com/2018/01/15/open-submissions/
Friday, February 9, 2018
Genetic Throwbacks, Miscreants, Dickweeds, and Freebooters
Draft from 03/11/11...I think maybe I published it, thought better of it, then drafted it back into hiding...
This started out as a Facebook comment on someone's post about this article, and it kinda got away from me.
Note that I didn't, and haven't (yet) read the article. I just went off on my own rant. So I'm not sure if it's even germane.
I don't think this is an issue of extreme-high-net-worth folks "earning" their wealth.
Whether it's the Facebook dickweed, or Bill Gates making software, or Warren Buffet making smart investments and helping other companies grow, or a family in Florida with thousands of acres of orange groves, or a family in New Mexico with several hundred thousand pecan trees, or a single mom benefiting from her family ties back to sugar cane in Louisiana, or a little old couple who made theirs in the grocery store business or another family in the business of selling us all our toilet paper - even if they do stoop so low in their commercials as to using animated bears with dingle-berries to do it. People who make things people want/need to consume, at a fair profit (mind you, not a windfall), I have no problem with.
Where I have a problem is the crooks, charlatans, carpetbaggers and snake-oil salesmen who manipulate the system to their advantage and don’t actually contribute anything with any redeeming social value to the planet. Investment bankers who make millions betting against a stock. Currency traders. The Enron folks. The new energy "traders"/manipulators. The crooked mortgage bankers and securities mofos. The credit default swappers. The payday check cashers and pawn finance world low-lifes. Reverse mortgage opportunists. The obvious Ponzi schemers like Bernie and the others.
But the lowest form of "serpentine-insect-life-lowest-of-the-low-most-worthless-pieces-of-shit-who-I-will-personally-break-their-fucking-pencil-necks-and-twist-their-heads-off-with-my-bare-hands-when-I-encounter-them” life are the pieces of shit who see the taxpayer, and the tax base, and future taxpayers generations into the future, and future tax dollars generations hence, who see all that cash flow (and not even the cash flow - start counting up the debt and interest flow as well) as their personal pile of cash to roll around and get a hard-on in.
Medicare and Medicaid (fraud), Social Security (basically trying to figure out how to siphon it off), the Military-Industrial complex, subsidies like a bad case of dysentery out the wazoo, all the fraud and graft and earmarks and sweetheart deals and special interests (and I could go on and on but I won’t), Americans with their (siphon) hose in the foreign aid pool whether it be the IMF, or USAID, or pallets of cash bricks being flown to our foreign “friends”, no-bid contract awards both at home and abroad. Lobbyists. Crooked politicians (Republicans and Democrats and Tea Baggers alike), public officials and public administrators at all levels. Bad teachers and police officers who don’t want to be there and don’t deserve a job but can’t be fired because they’re “union”. Warmongers. Planet rapists. Ecosystem destroyers. “For Profit” water/aquifer foulers/wasters.
These are the fuckers we need to be seeking out and going after as if they were the worst terrorists/anti-Christs/black holes/dark bits of matter/princes of darkness/profiteers/pirates/freebooters/plunderers/malignant maligners/we need a new word to describe them/ to ever walk the face of the planet for the last 10,000 years.
These are the fuckers we need to go after. With pitchforks and torches and broadaxes and tar and feathers in the streets. Miscreants. Genetic-throwbacks with aberrant genetics who seek to do financial harm to others to line their own pockets with the greenbacks, hard-earned by those others, with healthy genetics and blood, sweat and tears.
I remain convinced that in the old days the tribe would deal with these types with a single swift blow to the base of the skull with a stone club.
I remain convinced.
It’s gonna be a beautiful day out there folks! Enjoy! I know I will. And have a great weekend! Thanks for the opportunity for some vituperation on the subject!
This started out as a Facebook comment on someone's post about this article, and it kinda got away from me.
Note that I didn't, and haven't (yet) read the article. I just went off on my own rant. So I'm not sure if it's even germane.
I don't think this is an issue of extreme-high-net-worth folks "earning" their wealth.
Whether it's the Facebook dickweed, or Bill Gates making software, or Warren Buffet making smart investments and helping other companies grow, or a family in Florida with thousands of acres of orange groves, or a family in New Mexico with several hundred thousand pecan trees, or a single mom benefiting from her family ties back to sugar cane in Louisiana, or a little old couple who made theirs in the grocery store business or another family in the business of selling us all our toilet paper - even if they do stoop so low in their commercials as to using animated bears with dingle-berries to do it. People who make things people want/need to consume, at a fair profit (mind you, not a windfall), I have no problem with.
Where I have a problem is the crooks, charlatans, carpetbaggers and snake-oil salesmen who manipulate the system to their advantage and don’t actually contribute anything with any redeeming social value to the planet. Investment bankers who make millions betting against a stock. Currency traders. The Enron folks. The new energy "traders"/manipulators. The crooked mortgage bankers and securities mofos. The credit default swappers. The payday check cashers and pawn finance world low-lifes. Reverse mortgage opportunists. The obvious Ponzi schemers like Bernie and the others.
But the lowest form of "serpentine-insect-life-lowest-of-the-low-most-worthless-pieces-of-shit-who-I-will-personally-break-their-fucking-pencil-necks-and-twist-their-heads-off-with-my-bare-hands-when-I-encounter-them” life are the pieces of shit who see the taxpayer, and the tax base, and future taxpayers generations into the future, and future tax dollars generations hence, who see all that cash flow (and not even the cash flow - start counting up the debt and interest flow as well) as their personal pile of cash to roll around and get a hard-on in.
Medicare and Medicaid (fraud), Social Security (basically trying to figure out how to siphon it off), the Military-Industrial complex, subsidies like a bad case of dysentery out the wazoo, all the fraud and graft and earmarks and sweetheart deals and special interests (and I could go on and on but I won’t), Americans with their (siphon) hose in the foreign aid pool whether it be the IMF, or USAID, or pallets of cash bricks being flown to our foreign “friends”, no-bid contract awards both at home and abroad. Lobbyists. Crooked politicians (Republicans and Democrats and Tea Baggers alike), public officials and public administrators at all levels. Bad teachers and police officers who don’t want to be there and don’t deserve a job but can’t be fired because they’re “union”. Warmongers. Planet rapists. Ecosystem destroyers. “For Profit” water/aquifer foulers/wasters.
These are the fuckers we need to be seeking out and going after as if they were the worst terrorists/anti-Christs/black holes/dark bits of matter/princes of darkness/profiteers/pirates/freebooters/plunderers/malignant maligners/we need a new word to describe them/ to ever walk the face of the planet for the last 10,000 years.
These are the fuckers we need to go after. With pitchforks and torches and broadaxes and tar and feathers in the streets. Miscreants. Genetic-throwbacks with aberrant genetics who seek to do financial harm to others to line their own pockets with the greenbacks, hard-earned by those others, with healthy genetics and blood, sweat and tears.
I remain convinced that in the old days the tribe would deal with these types with a single swift blow to the base of the skull with a stone club.
I remain convinced.
It’s gonna be a beautiful day out there folks! Enjoy! I know I will. And have a great weekend! Thanks for the opportunity for some vituperation on the subject!
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Roberto SZ Productions - Milonga Scene in Barcelona
Draft from 10/06/16
Sent from my iPad
We call y'all "non-tango people" - everyone who has not (yet) experienced or really even seen social Argentine tango being danced. This is one of the most accurate portrayals of the scene/s at a milonga, or social tango dance, that I have ever seen.
Although this shows only one song, we dance with the same partner for three or four songs, what we call a tanda. Everyone leaves the dance floor during the cortina, then via cabaceo/mirada, a completely non-verbal eye contact only process of invitation and acceptance, everyone mixes it up with new dance partners and the process begins anew.
Milongas occur every night of the week, in cities large and small, all over the world. Most go from 10 until 1 or 2 am, however, some last until the wee hours of the morning, or even day break.
It's a beautiful dance and art form, a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage, and as I am oft to say, it's not "just" a dance.
Sent from my iPad
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
Draft from 07/23/13 - I have 112 draft posts that never got posted for some reason...all the way back to March of 2008...
Originally written by Carole King & Gerry Goffin...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_You_Love_Me_Tomorrow
Ran across this on Facebook today...from "The Other Side of Amy Winehouse"...no longer available...
Originally by The Shirelles...
Originally written by Carole King & Gerry Goffin...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_You_Love_Me_Tomorrow
Ran across this on Facebook today...from "The Other Side of Amy Winehouse"...no longer available...
Originally by The Shirelles...
How the U.S. Exports Global Warming - Rolling Stone Magazine
Draft from 02/04/2014
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I'm all for happiness and hope and positivity and tango and football and elephants and cute kitty cats and lions and dachshunds who are BFF's. But at some point we're going to have to wake up, get off our collective asses, stand up, walk or drive or bike or mass-transit our collective asses somewhere, and actually start to DO SOMETHING about the raft of really pretty major fucking issues that face humanity across the board and across the planet. We will have to put our cushy-ass comfortable lives at risk, or at least our "way" of life.
I suggest en-masse demonstrations as a first step. Non-violent of course. Millions upon millions of unhappy folk in the streets, day after day, week after week have a way of getting the attention of the onion-eyed miscreant politicians and puppet-masters. An added benefit of this action is that we'll be able to finally determine if all the "conspiracy theory" stories about the militarization of the U.S. police forces, FEMA detention camps, millions of stockpiled black plastic coffins, indefinite detention of U.S. citizens, etc.
Of course, I'm only joking and dreaming, because we all know this will never happen. We will continue to look the other way and to fuck it all up until it's too late. It will be ugly and painful and extremely uncomfortable at that point.
No, I take that back. The first step is to dream a new dream. The American Bad Dream ain't cuttin' it anymore, y'all. Something viable in the long term aka sustainable, something healthy and good and just and right. Something that doesn't commodify human beings and the human experience/life. Something that doesn't rape our Mother Earth, despoil the very source of our sustenance/life force. Something difficult and uncomfortable to figure out how the fuck to do it and how the fuck to do it right. Do the right thing and do the thing right as I always like to say.
Have a good day, y'all. Be careful out there. It's raining again.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-u-s-exports-global-warming-20140203
[url=http://flic.kr/p/jKj4yG][img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7326/12304555156_2880ba8846_c.jpg[/img][/url]
I'm all for happiness and hope and positivity and tango and football and elephants and cute kitty cats and lions and dachshunds who are BFF's. But at some point we're going to have to wake up, get off our collective asses, stand up, walk or drive or bike or mass-transit our collective asses somewhere, and actually start to DO SOMETHING about the raft of really pretty major fucking issues that face humanity across the board and across the planet. We will have to put our cushy-ass comfortable lives at risk, or at least our "way" of life.
I suggest en-masse demonstrations as a first step. Non-violent of course. Millions upon millions of unhappy folk in the streets, day after day, week after week have a way of getting the attention of the onion-eyed miscreant politicians and puppet-masters. An added benefit of this action is that we'll be able to finally determine if all the "conspiracy theory" stories about the militarization of the U.S. police forces, FEMA detention camps, millions of stockpiled black plastic coffins, indefinite detention of U.S. citizens, etc.
Of course, I'm only joking and dreaming, because we all know this will never happen. We will continue to look the other way and to fuck it all up until it's too late. It will be ugly and painful and extremely uncomfortable at that point.
No, I take that back. The first step is to dream a new dream. The American Bad Dream ain't cuttin' it anymore, y'all. Something viable in the long term aka sustainable, something healthy and good and just and right. Something that doesn't commodify human beings and the human experience/life. Something that doesn't rape our Mother Earth, despoil the very source of our sustenance/life force. Something difficult and uncomfortable to figure out how the fuck to do it and how the fuck to do it right. Do the right thing and do the thing right as I always like to say.
Have a good day, y'all. Be careful out there. It's raining again.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-u-s-exports-global-warming-20140203
Last night I dreamt...
Actually from way back in 2014...saved as a draft for some reason...
Last night I dreamt that I found $141 in my pocket. Two twenty's, a hundred dollar bill, and a one. I was at a quaint little shop of some sort, somewhere, not in America, buying something. I reached into my pocket and pulled out a fold/wad of bills and as I unfolded them, was surprised at the completely unexpected windfall.
The next scene was on a beach. It was a very narrow beach with very steep, almost cliff-like dunes about twelve to fourteen feet high. It would have been fruitless to even try to climb up them. The surf was building very fast. Eight to ten foot high breakers pounding the sand, but somehow, not us. I could see a spot further down the beach, a break in the dunes where they were lower - six to eight feet - where we could climb up and escape the certain death. "We" being "she and I". A faceless and nameless woman. Familiar, and deeply known, but blank and dark and distant to my dreaming consciousness.
We clambered up, the sand caving in and cascading down under our pumping legs.
We made it, just as the waves came crashing in behind us, and we walked away into the moonlit darkness.
I rarely remember my dreams. Hell, I don't even remember if I dream these days.
Lots of shit going on in there.
Lots of shit.
Last night I dreamt that I found $141 in my pocket. Two twenty's, a hundred dollar bill, and a one. I was at a quaint little shop of some sort, somewhere, not in America, buying something. I reached into my pocket and pulled out a fold/wad of bills and as I unfolded them, was surprised at the completely unexpected windfall.
The next scene was on a beach. It was a very narrow beach with very steep, almost cliff-like dunes about twelve to fourteen feet high. It would have been fruitless to even try to climb up them. The surf was building very fast. Eight to ten foot high breakers pounding the sand, but somehow, not us. I could see a spot further down the beach, a break in the dunes where they were lower - six to eight feet - where we could climb up and escape the certain death. "We" being "she and I". A faceless and nameless woman. Familiar, and deeply known, but blank and dark and distant to my dreaming consciousness.
We clambered up, the sand caving in and cascading down under our pumping legs.
We made it, just as the waves came crashing in behind us, and we walked away into the moonlit darkness.
I rarely remember my dreams. Hell, I don't even remember if I dream these days.
Lots of shit going on in there.
Lots of shit.
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