cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Nov 30, 2009, 3:47 pm
With the organizers Ruben y Marcela. Posing with Guillermo Thorpe of Diostango magazine. It was quite a while ago since Ruben and I last danced in Chiqué on Thursdays. When we returned a couple of ...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Nov 26, 2009, 9:33 pm
Alex Long wrote after my two previous posts on Learning By Looking, Hola Cheri...when I was at the 1 yr mark, I set up my camera on a tripod and set it to take about 8 frames per second (video is 30 ...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Nov 21, 2009, 9:00 pm
A republishing of my annual Thanksgiving post. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, even if this coming Thursday isn't your traditional day. We all have much to be grateful for. Each autumn when the ...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Nov 19, 2009, 12:01 pm
Because it's been several years now since ExpatWomen.com made me Mentor of the Month, and because I'm asked these same excellent questions over and over in my daily life meeting "foreigners" h...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Nov 18, 2009, 10:24 am
A new tango show opened on Corrientes this past weekend, and your tangocherie was there to scope it out for you. Tramatango is the new vehicle of Milena Plebs, formally of Tango x2 and Miguel Angel Z...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Nov 17, 2009, 7:08 am
Last Saturday Club Español had its first milonga in years! That's the good news. El Club Español (Bernardo Yrigoyen 172) is one of the most beautiful buildings in Buenos Aires, and, unlike so m...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Nov 13, 2009, 3:44 pm
Background reading for this post is The Dark Side, and Of Milongueros y Milongueras on The Tango Jungle. Tango pastel by Vera Berv When dancers contact us about planning their tango time in Buenos ...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Nov 12, 2009, 7:33 am
Let's go back to Greenwich Village in the early sixties and take a seat at a tacky empanada stand on the corner of Bleecker and MacDougal Streets. Let's eaves-drop on a bunch of kooky Argentin...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Nov 7, 2009, 7:33 am
Here are some more examples of how we can learn by looking at photos, in our goal to become self-correcting. The guy above has got that right leg far outside the "couple," making him vulnerable to lo...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Nov 3, 2009, 6:44 am
One of the goals of Ruben's and my classes is to help students become self-correcting. Once they have a basic technique and a knowledge of what to do and how to do it, then they will know when the...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 29, 2009, 7:06 am
Play your cards right and dance well this weekend! Or else... El Guazon will give you a Tarjeta Roja--Expulsion!!--from la pista! (Are you scared yet?)
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 27, 2009, 7:41 am
I've always been a fan of the surreal. (Maybe my life has seemed surreal to me, even before I knew the meaning of the word.) My earliest art memories (late 1950's) are of dreamlike paintings ...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 25, 2009, 3:10 pm
You never know what ghoul may be watching you dance!
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 20, 2009, 5:25 pm
I finally got to see this lovely little 2005 French film (I'm Not Here to be Loved) about the need for connection in one's life--and the power of tango.
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 18, 2009, 8:21 pm
Which person would you invite to dance? Girl in Red Dress painting by Roderic O'Conor Seated man photo, Emily Spencer Hayden collection The Tango Tourist High Season is now upon us. I'd li...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 18, 2009, 5:03 am
Ruben and I miss our mothers every day.
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 17, 2009, 8:27 am
Henry of KnowTango Blog asked me to write about what makes a good tango venue. I’ve been dancing tango for a long time, and in many venues around the world, and in Buenos Aires since 1997, where I ...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 15, 2009, 5:38 pm
A head's up to those folks in Buenos Aires who love flamenco, dance, or just a night of passionate and firey music-- the world-famous Soledad Barrio and her Noche Flamenca are returning to Teatro ...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 13, 2009, 8:41 am
I'm a big folklore fan, and a Chaqueño Palavecino groupie. Ruben and I always watch Argentinisima on TV and plan to one day attend the big festival in Cosquin. Meanwhile, we were lucky enough to...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 13, 2009, 5:24 am
Tanguera, the "tango Broadway show," finally opens tonight in New York--one week only! I'm not a big fan of tango shows, even though, like most of us drawn to tango, my introduction to Argentine ...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 11, 2009, 8:06 am
There's still time to be a Tango Champion in 2009! On the heels (as it were) of the Mundial and the InterMilonga, here's a week-long tango championship that anyone may enter if they are over ...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 10, 2009, 5:41 am
Here's tangocherie's first guest post, this from Best Travel Deals. Read on to the end for a couple of suggestions of my own. One of the s...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 6, 2009, 5:44 am
Two awesome tango documentaries came out recently that celebrate the old guard, la guardia vieja, of tango. More than a trend following the huge success of The Buena Vista Social Club, these movies al...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 4, 2009, 11:11 am
The festivities for tonight, Sunday, to celebrate Tango as recognized by UNESCO to be a cultural world heritage were canceled because of the official day of mourning for Mercedes Sosa. Here's a v...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 4, 2009, 10:42 am
Mercedes Sosa 1935-2009 More info La Negra is singing with the angels now. Gracias, Mercedes, for your life, art, music, presence on this earth.
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Oct 2, 2009, 9:30 am
As most of my readers know, I am a two-time survivor of breast cancer. You can read my brief story in previous posts here and here. I'm also the widow of a man who died way too young of prostrate...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Sep 29, 2009, 3:19 pm
La Reina de Primavera and her Princesses, with Sylvia and the organizer Myriam Rosich. Spring is huge here, as I wrote last week. I know some might say, enough already, but we take our fun where we f...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Sep 25, 2009, 7:01 am
... when dancers return to their home country they lose some of what they've learned in Buenos Aires and regress into old bad habits. Sometimes the influence at home is just too strong for them t...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Sep 24, 2009, 10:23 am
Argentina is far, far from home for most expats who live here and the tango tourists who visit. Some of us are able to travel a bit and experience more of Argentina than Buenos Aires. And some folks c...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Sep 21, 2009, 9:55 pm
Glorias Argentinas, in Mataderos on the edge of the city, was the first milonga I ever went to in Argentina, way back in '97. I remember that the hostess gave all the women in our tango tour group...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Sep 20, 2009, 10:54 pm
FELIZ PRIMAVERA! HAPPY SPRING! I took this shot during lunch at our favorite parrilla down by the river. The first day of spring is an occasion for much rejoicing here in Argentina; ladies are give...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Sep 20, 2009, 1:11 pm

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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Sep 20, 2009, 8:05 am
Last night the qualifying round in one of the three milongas participating in the Campeonato InterMilonga was held at "our" milonga, Los Consagrados. (See previous post for more information on the con...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Sep 14, 2009, 5:23 am
The Mundial's over but you're now in Buenos Aires and you still want to compete in tango? You can do it this week! Here's the info: Organiza: Círculo Apolo "Milonga Entre Amigos" Colabo...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Sep 12, 2009, 8:08 am
Our friends, Helena y Carlos, inaugurated a new afternoon milonga last night at La Salsera in Almagro. The last time I was there was years ago when it was home to the gay milonga, La Marshall which si...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Sep 11, 2009, 7:33 am
I went to see The Ugly Truth the other day, (or La Cruda Verdad, as it's called in Argentina.) It's a cute and bland date movie and the only reason I went to see it was because it was filmed a...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Sep 9, 2009, 7:58 am
Ever since I started to dance tango way back when in Los Angeles, I had heard about tango in Rosario--mostly I suppose because at that time Rosario's Orlando Paiva was the tango teacher in L.A. S...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Aug 29, 2009, 10:17 pm
We just saw this on television from Luna Park and the winners are a Japanese couple, Hiroyi Yamao & Kyoko Yamao (photo by Daniel Carreira.) This couple placed third in the Tango Escenario competition ...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Aug 29, 2009, 9:47 am
The Teatro Konex (a recycled old warehouse on Sarmiento in Abasto) is a great venue! Maybe not exactly for tango but we enjoyed seeing it and a few friends who also attended this Garage Tango event of...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Aug 28, 2009, 7:42 am
I'm a Charles Aznavour groupie, it's true. I went to every concert he made in Los Angeles, starting in 1965, and until I moved to Mexico in 2001. I was very disappointed to have missed his Fa...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Aug 25, 2009, 10:15 am
In honor of the 200th issue of his tango magazine, Tito Palumbo invited us and tout Buenos Aires tango to a cocktail reception in Almagro at the Casa de Tango. I would like to have included here high...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Aug 22, 2009, 8:00 am
No matter how well someone does a "step," if it's not with the music, it's bad. My idea of hell is to dance with someone who hasn't a clue that he is way outside of the music and is off th...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Aug 20, 2009, 7:57 pm
This is my 500th post! I can't believe it. I wanted to write something "pivotal," but I also want to let you know about this deal while it lasts. Here is a music promotion that begins tonight (Th...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Aug 16, 2009, 12:30 pm
They just keep on coming! There must be something about tango that makes people desperate to understand the phenomenon--the why and wherefores of its aficionados. The tango mystique is huge in terms ...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Aug 14, 2009, 7:36 am
Today begins the Buenos Aires Tango Festival, with free classes and shows around the city and in the old Harrod's building downtown on Calle Florida. There will also be lots of vendors so you can ...
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cherie m. posted an article on tangocherie - Aug 12, 2009, 10:21 am
Capif (Chamber Producers’ Argentina of Phonograms and Videogramas) announced the winners of the Gardel Awards 2009 on July 22. (Thanks to Burak Ozkosem for posting on Tango-A.) Celeste Carballo wit...
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