The Walking One

We have been running the Monday practica at O Nada for a few weeks now. 우리는 요즘 월요일마다 오나다에서 쁘락띠까를 열고 있다. In the practica sometimes women ask me to dance. 쁘락띠까에서 가끔 여자분들이 나에게 춤을 청하곤 한다. Often the way they ask is this: they put up their index finger and say, "Can you dance one song with me?" 그들은 자..

I have been curious about the Tango music scene in Japan for quite a while. Finally this past weekend I got the chance to go to Tokyo to see 2 orchestras play. The occasion was the 2009 Asian Tango Championship in Tokyo. For the final gala event, they invited 2 tango orchestras to perform. The first one was the Orquesta Tango Waseda, which is the tango orchestra of Waseda University. If I remem..

Friends have asked me about the Tango scene in South Korea often, so I have decided to write down a few of my impressions here. For your information, I have lived in Seoul for two and half years and I plan to continue to live there for the foreseeable future. I work full-time as a Tango teacher and organizer, and I visit the local milongas often. Tango in Korea started around 2000 and it has gro..