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Books about Tango
Argentine Tango: a pocket ‘breviary’ for its dancers
€15.00Author: Patricia Müller
186 Pages
In this book, we discover the code of honor of the ‘porteños’ dancers of the Tango Milonguero who have remained ‘uncontaminated’ by the tourism surrounding the Tango and who are more or less 70-80 years old.
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Books about Tango
Blackness in Tango
€15.00Blackness in Tango.
A story of love hidden in the notesWriter: Mónica María Fumagalli
64 pages with colour illustrations and Photos.
Slaves took part in the founding of Buenos Aires and in the wars that shaped its destiny. One of the first bandoneón players in history was the son of slaves: it’s difficult to imagine tango as a creation indifferent to the presence of Blacks.
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Embracing Tango
€18.00Embracing Tango. Techniques and Metaphores between Tango and Life
Writer: Gustavo Benzecry Sabá
160 pages with illustrations and photos
Aesthetics, respect and discipline are some of the concepts Benzecry Sabá has analyzed in depth in this book. In its pages dance is understood as a unity that not only plunges us into pleasure, but also raises our spirits.
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Books about Tango
I Am Tango
€20.00I Am Tango. Biography of Maria Nieves
Writer: María Oliva
134 pages illustrated with photos.
“Tango dance has something very special: it’s the communication within the couple. That is why when we dance it we feel an endless number of emotions, such as love…and hate. I was born to dance tango and I will die for my tango.”
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Books about Tango
I wanted to dance
€15.00I wanted to dance. Carlos Gavito: Life, passion and tango
Writer: Ricardo Plazaola
120 pages with 35 photos.
CARLOS EDUARDO GAVITO (4/27/1943 – 7/1/2005) was born in La Plata, Argentina. He spent his youth in the barrio of Avellaneda (to the south of Greater Buenos Aires) and the rest of his life circling the globe.
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Books about Tango
Inside the show Tango Argentino
€20.00Writer: Antón Gazenbeek
248 Pages, 97 Photos
During the dark years of military dictatorship, Tango had fallen into oblivion all over the world, even in Argentina. The “Tango Argentino” tango show was the show that led to the worldwide revival of interest in Tango. He made his debut in Paris, then conquered Broadway and, later, the whole world…
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Books about Tango
New Glossary of Tango Dance
€20.00New Glossary of Tango Dance. Key Tango Argentino dance terms.
Writter: Gustavo Benzecry Sabá
96 pages illustrated with photos.
The New Glossary of Tango Dance comes is the result of a 10 year long thoughtful research. Its first edition, published in 2004 was an outstanding success. It´s demand all over the world made it be re-printed several times.
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Books about Tango
New Glossary of Tango Dance + DVD
€40.00New Glossary of Tango Dance. Key Tango Argentino dance terms.
Writer: Gustavo Benzecry Sabá
96 Pages with photos + 1 DVD showing 285 Tango words and movements.
The New Glossary of Tango Dance comes is the result of a 10 year long thoughtful research. Its first edition, published in 2004 was an outstanding success. It´s demand all over the world made it be re-printed several times.
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Argentine Literature
Stories for brave children
€15.00Illustrated book for children with refugee or other distressing experiences. For their parents or professionals in the fields of education, social work, and therapy, available in six languages: German / Arabic / Kurdish / Persian / English / Ukrainian.
Author: Romina Tumini 168 color pages printed on 115 gramms paper, fully illustrated by the author’s son.
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Books about Tango
Tango Awareness
€27.00Writer: Mauricio Castro
128 pages.
Learning to dance tango. Looking and feeling great is only the beginning. Find out how some dancers learn faster and better than others. Understanding the solid principals of Tango Awareness will make your mind drift away into the comfort zone. Being yourself while you learn is easy.
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Books about Tango
Tango Passion and the Rules of the Game
€16.00Writer: Margareta Westergård
210 pages.
In this book, the strict rules, códigos, and behavioural patterns at the traditional milongas (dance halls) of Buenos Aires are described. They constitute a frame around the tango, which in its unique embrace, el abrazo, is danced here with more devotion and passion than in any other tango environment in the world.
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Books about Tango
Tango Queer Buenos Aires
€16.00Writer: Mariana Docampo
130 pages
All dance spaces (with their traditions, their physical requirements, their gendered performances) can be thought of as political devices for the body and its practices. They are cultural zones where possible forms of life are rehearsed—often in an unconscious way. They set in motion new probable and improbable relationships among bodies.
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Books about Tango
TANGO Vol. 1
€25.00TANGO. The Structure of the Dance 1. The key to its secrets revealed.
Writer: Mauricio Castro
130 pages with illustrations.
Mauricio Castro´s book offers a new system to help tha dancer creatively develop his/her tango using solidly established technical foundations.
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Books about Tango
TANGO Vol. 2
€35.00TANGO. The Structure of the Dance 2. The Matrix.
Writer: Mauricio Castro
144 pages with illustrations.
Mauricio Castro´s book offers a new system to help tha dancer creatively develop his/her tango using solidly established technical foundations.
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Books about Tango
TANGO. An anxious quest for freedom
€20.00Writers: Gloria and Rodolfo Dinzel
Translated by Martin Harvey, 115 pages with illustrations.
For the first time a literary work on tango dynamics attempts to dialogue about the technical and theoretical aspects of this dance, that is ¨porteña¨, and shows us to the world.
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Books about Tango
The Quest for the Embrace
€39.00The History of Tango Dance (1800-1983)
Writer: Gustavo Benzecry Sabá
240 pages with illustrations.
In 2009, UNESCO declared the Argentine tango to be part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Preceding this honor, there is a long history of men and women that created the dance, giving form to a way of life.
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The Tango Scene
€18.00The Tango Scene. Swing in
Writter: Sonia Abadi 116 pages. “El bazar de los abrazos”, written by Sonia Abadi, takes us through the world of dancing tango where men and women are the main characters of this universe of dreams and reality. Through its pages we travel to the milonga, “a permament emergency room for those who suffer the lack of tango, life and acquaintances”.
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Argentine Literature
Traces. Memories of Resistance (Argentina 1974 – 1983)
€15.00Writer: María del Carmen Sillato
240 pages.
This book brings together the unpublished works of survivors of State terrorism in Argentina. The painful past emerges on each page to be re-worked and approached from different angles; it invites reflection and is projected toward new audiences.
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Books about Tango
Women and Tango
€15.00Angels of the hearth, cabaret demons. Women and Tango
Writer: Mónica María Fumagalli
64 pages with colour illustrations and Photos.
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CDs Rom - DVDs
Tango Dance Training Vol. 3 (DVD)
€25.00More than 1 hour of exercises from Tango discovery training taught in Buenos Aires by Mauricio Castro.
75 minutes.