A New Abode.

Hello Tango-ers! The official EUTS website is now up and running, so if you're looking for the lesson times, locations, and latest news about EUTS, why don't you do a quick one two and get yourself to:

tango.eusa.ed.ac.uk

Lots of love and happy dancing,

the EUTS Committee.

Edinburgh International Tango Festival!

Who would want to miss out on the inaugural International Tango festival in our beloved festive city?

If you're around during 23 - 26 May 2008, make sure to join in the workshops, milongas and live music hubub of the festival.

It's bound to be an amazing event, and it will feature renowned tango teachers from Buenos Aires, Paris, and Edinburgh itself:

Nancy Louzan & Damian Esell
Celine Ruiz & Damian Rosenthal
Jenny Francis & Ricardo Oria

The finale, the Summer Ball featuring Orquesta Típica Fervor de Buenos Aires will be another unforgettable night, as all previous balls and events thrown by ETS has proven to be.

With over 20 workshops, they are welcome to beginners and advanced levels, so there's something for everyone. And dancing will ensue with multiple milongas sustained by the tunes of DJ Michiel Lombaers.

For more information: www.eitf.org.uk

Plenty of dancing and socialising with your favourite people, I doubt you'll need much persuasion.

Tango Envy.

Wasn't there at Firbush? Wish you were there? But it's alright. Here's a snippet of Jenny and Ricardo's performance at the saturday night milonga. Yes. They're as good as we said they are.



Next year, folks.

La Otra: Be White, Be Fun.

La Otra, on this saturday the 19th of January! A wonderful night of atmospheric dancing to great wonderful neo-tango music, great company, and fantastic food as usual.

9pm-1am, Marchmont St Giles Church, Kilgraston Road, £5 includes food and Mulled Wine (£4 without)



You'll see the church clock glowing in the midst of the dark, and don't worry, you'll see the signs too. Or keep an ear out for the tango music....

Email me if you have any other questions! stina.is.irked@gmail.com

Have a great night!

We Own the Night.

So these may be late, but so what? We Tangueros and Tangueras are well-acquainted with the fashionably late. So here it is, photographs from our first EUTS milonga of the year, very, very fashionably late to give you a nostalgic kickstart to the goodies in store for this semester. It's going to be a good one.















Much thanks, appreciation, and applause to the skillful Janek Mann for these photos.

Stay on the lookout for big and better tango things to come, and I'll try to update more. Sigh.

Lots of love.

Christina.

This is what. TangoHell. Looks like.

This is actually nauseating. DO NOT WANT, children. DO NOT WANT. It is satisfying though, that after a period of tango blitzkrieging, one actually can discern between a video of good or bad tango. Watching someone dance live always allows for a better form of judgment, but getting to a point where one can actually understand what is going on in a video of tango is a real sign of skill improvement.

But evidently not in this case.

I am most most MOST certain that you all, realise that this is bad bad bad tango. Pat on the back. Sit back, and bask in the fact that none of us, even in the first lesson, have ever danced this poorly.

Thank you Toby.

And thanks to Ricardo Peixoto and his lovely tango blog for this gem.

Firbush!

It's the time of year to start saving up your pennies, begging mommy over Christmas and New Year to let you go to Firbush again. It's our annual Tango weekend away trip to the Highlands. Firbush is a sports centre owned by the University that has variant sorts of sports facilities located on the stunning location of Loch Tay. Sound like I'm from a promoting this commercially? I kind of am. I wouldn't promote something unfantastic though.

The weekend's going to feature Edinburgh's two professional resident Tango teachers : Jenny and Ricardo. They've been teaching professionally at DanceBase, featured on BBC, and have been involved in the UK tango scene for many years, and are, quite frankly, brilliant brilliant teachers. This will be a great opportunity to have a weekend chock full of workshops that are guaranteed to bring your tango skills to the next level.

But aside from that, to give you a good breather, you'll have plenty of opportunities to be one with nature, zen out on a kayaking trip, canoeing trip, or a good hearty hike. All equipment will be included in the price, and all the food will be too! There's always delicious food up there, and comfortable accommodation, so no worries about that.

The nights generally feature milongas (social dances), so you can practice your Tango rebellion and refuse sleep for the greater graces of dance.

But moreover, it's also a tremendous amount of fun with a great great bunch of friendly people from the Tango Society, and something you won't easily forget.

Here are our pictures from last year....


We had a 'TanGothic' themed milonga last year... SO MUCH FUN.


Live Music!