



I came across these photographs some time ago. There were two things that spoke to me upon looking at them. The first there is something very distinctly porteño about them. The second, childhood memories of spending time with my mother while she taught the Saturday afternoon gymnastics classes. To my surprise and delight, my eyes did not deceive me and were taken by the talented Katrina M. d'Autremont, who was living in Buenos Aires and taking classes at Circo Criollo.
Katrina says, "When I was living in South America, I started taking circus classes. One thing that struck me was that the teachers of the trapeze classes were often women with young children. Often their children would be at the classes like at a daycare center, except the babysitters were the students of the classes. Each day these aerial mothers would train for hours as their children grew up into the world of circus arts. To these children what their mothers did each day was normal, and in trying to be like their moms, they fly through the air and grow up with a world most of us only imagine in fiction."
In her photographic essay, Si Dios Quiere... explores the specific roles developed over time within the family. There is something about the kitchen photographs that make me feel quite homesick for Buenos Aires and the Sunday family lunches.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Katrina M. d'Autremont
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Friday, December 04, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Tango In National Geographic



Photographs by Pablo Corral Vega for National Geographic
This morning via my sitemeter I found a National Geographic link to an article on Tango published in the December 2003 issue. Sometimes when attending the milongas one can truly feel that they are participating in an episode of National Geographic with all the posturing, preening, drama and the beauty that happens in the microcosmic world of Tango. I wonder if the subjects of these photos even know that their images graced the pages of the world´s leading nature journal? I bet El Turco (middle photo) does!
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
How to....
Isa demonstrates how to take mate like a local.
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé
Have you seen this movie? Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé (Not Here to Be Loved), is probably one of the best "Tango" films I have seen so far. The Tango in the film certainly is not all about the steps, but about the embrace. As the story progresses, watch how the embrace develops between the lead characters, Jean-Claude (Patrick Chesnais) and Françoise (Anne Consigny). I will leave it at this, as not to spoil the movie for you, but enjoy the performance below of Geraldine Rojas and Javier Rodriguez.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Pugliese
Tangri-lá wrote a sweet post today Introducing Pugliese. I can not think of any other orchestra who can make an entire milonga gasp collectively in excitement, as I once experienced at the magical milonga formerly held in Club Español.
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