Tango Mix

I love listening to tango while studying. I have made a mix on 8tracks, which I am showing you right below. Normally, the site won't let you download the music directly, so I think it may be a good idea to find another way to share music with you.

Yes, I own these tracks, and if anybody gets offended by my non-benefit sharing here, please let me know so I can remove the download link. Remember, my blog doesn't host the music files, and I am totally broke so don't sue me, thank you very much.

I really love the music, and so will you.  You can thank me by keeping me in your thoughts and sending me some positive energy so I can study well. Oh, you can also check out another related post about tango right here.


Track List:

It's the Tango, yo!

1. A Media Luz - Trio Pantango
2. Peliculas - Demoliendo Tangos
3. Malena - Sexteto Mayor
4. L'ete Indien - Quadro Nuevo
5. Fruta Amarga - Lidia Borda
6. La Comparsita - Villurca
7. El Choclo - Maria Grana
8. Oblivion - Astor Piazzolla

Alright then, Peace, love, and sexy rhythm.

Pas de Deux

Giselle - Pas De Deux

Normally I wouldn't have time to watch TV because of the college workload or otherwise crying over failed romances. These days, I find myself watching the Food Network at 3AM in the morning, dreaming about being the next Food Network Star with my own gastronomic traveling show à la Anthony Bourdain. To switch the focus abruptly from food to arts, I also watch this obscure channel called the Classic Arts Showcase that is only broadcast after 10PM every night. They present various clips of classic movies, operas, ballets, dances, and other artsy stuffs. They are great for my late night mood, which is sadly incomplete without a glass of wine and someone equally pretentious to cuddle with and exchange comments.

Anyway, this channel seems to plant in my mind an ever-growing sapling of appreciation for dances. Yes, another not-so-available art form to my newly graduated, unemployed self. On the channel, I haven't actually seen the Legend of Love clip shown immediately below, yet it is irrefutable that the ballet clips I have seen there inspire me to look for similar ones online.



The channel also introduced me to the Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer Alicia Alonso. Her passion and persistence are legendary, consider that she is partially blind. Her talent and beauty perpetuates over decades as seen through her remarkable performance of Giselle in her 60s. I intend to show her Black Swan Pas de Deux with Azari Plisetsky. Well, of course, the clip is not embeddable by request. So just follow this link, if not, you are missing out. These clips originate from the Vaimusic people and they are actually my favorites by the way. If you don't feel like leaving my page, then check out her Gisele below:



The upcoming clip possesses extraordinary beauty. I hold my breaths every time Ekateria Maksimova flies high up in the air, light as a feather. Another version performed on stage lacks the fleeting fragility that I find enchanting in the clip. Therefore, grasp the person closest to you like now, confess your love to each other then watch the clip together!



Magical, Isn't it? And yeah, it's hard to be a snob when you are poor. Did I tell you I was so cheap today, I didn't want to give my sister $4.00 for a pizza we ordered? I'm not entirely sure if I have seen better day, but I'm certain that better days are ahead. They are there for me to see. Or I'm just gonna put my scantily clad pic on Craigslist looking for a silver sugar-daddy. But then I'm gonna be a slutty boy-toy, not a snob wannabe anymore, so no. And who would want to be a snob anyway? So leave me and Britney alone, wait did I mention that Chris Crocker is dropping his panties to do porn? Ugh, I have no idea why I go from food to this. Anyway, forget about my digressive rant, focus on beauty. I'm so considerate, putting all this crap at the end. Remember, this is just another verbal dingbat, after all.

Tango

You know what is really hot? That's right, it's the tango. You know what is even hotter? Let me tell you, it's when two men dancing the tango together. In Argentina, it's called Queer Tango. The videos I am about to show you do not focus on the romantic same-sex relationship between the dancers; more likely, I intend to applaud the freedom from the hetero-normative codes in ballroom dances.

Men Tango

My dancer friends at Goucher are probably more knowledgeable than me about the aestheticism of ball room dances. I like ballet, ballroom dancing and dance composition and all, but the whole mechanistic minimalist modern dance sometimes performed at Goucher just didn't claim its place in my heart. I don't want to have a fixed prejudice against any art form. If I did, I would be in perpetual lamentation whenever an aria is sung and I wouldn't be risking my life taking the ghetto bus to go see old opera shown on a screen at the local movie theater. Anyway, There is a ball room dance class at Goucher, which is always in dire need of dancing guys. I decided to take the Jujitsu class instead, and I regretted my decision till this day.

Excuse my digression, the men in the clip below don't execute the common tango moves I see in the ballroom, yet I love the music very much. It's La Cumparsita, authentically tango, interpreted through modern dance - the good kind.



As you can see, the more the merrier. I like the staging here, you can play around with the Yin-Yang ideas, good vs. evil and the whole cornucopia.



And finally, when you decide to bring the dance out of the stage onto the street, and it's New York city. They are brothers, by the way. What a sumptuous visual experience.



Totally hot, I know.