Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Seoul tango festival - some Facts and opinions!










You find all the information about this festival on their home page! 
http://www.seoultangofestival.com/2014/11/2015-seoul-tango-festival-april-30-may-1.html

The videos posted by the organizer at El Bulin channel!
https://www.youtube.com/user/florenciatango/videos

Here you find the opinions of some other Finish visitors on their blog! (2011)
https://movementinvitesmovement.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/we-heart-the-seoul-tango-festival/

My postings can be found by a search with a lable KOREA on this blog and videos in Youtube!
https://www.youtube.com/user/LeenaTango/videos


Thursday, April 16, 2015

Tango for the brave - Saxtas


I like the sound here!  And the dancing!

       






Tango and Parkinson's desease

Here you have the conclusions for the study how Argentine tango effects on persons with Parkinson's disease:

Conclusion
Argentine tango can improve balance, and functional mobility, and may have modest benefits upon cognition and fatigue in Parkinson’s disease. These findings must be confirmed in longer-term trials explicitly powered for cognition and fatigue.

“Tango for treatment of motor and non-motor manifestations in Parkinson’s disease: A randomized control study” by Silvia Rios Romenets, Julius Anang, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Amelie Pelletier, and Ronald Postuma in Complementary Therapies in Medicine. Published online February 9 2015 doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2015.01.015

The following link gives you a some lengthier text:  http://neurosciencenews.com/parkinsons-tango-dancing-neurology-1948/

[In the end of this URL they have numbers 1948. I assume it is not the year when this study was done. . . . . ]

Sunday, April 5, 2015

Tango took me to the stage!

One of my long time tango friends produced a play for a private theater in town. I was asked to join the team to produce and run the visuals for this play and my wild mind said Thank You and I will fix that!

It was ok to produce the videos and prepare the existing for better quality but I did not have a clue how to show them professionally! I got a phone number to a person who is working with media production and the hard message was that he had not been able to find any reliable tool for a PC. He was using Mac.

His advice was to use VLC player and extended screen on computer. This advice did put me on a reasonable track and after some training at home with a smal Pico projector I completed my part of the production.

The team was wonderful and the performance was great so we are now preparing an extra perfomance within some weeks!


                                    The story of the couple dance!     



(PS.  I was dancing too!  A part of an candombe and then later some bad steps :)  )


Thursday, April 2, 2015

Heads on top, please

No we are not ballroom dancers and the Throwaway Oversway is not on our training list! Maybe some quebradas. Men anyhow we also bend the head forward and so we are rocking the same boat! Risky for our neck!










The whole story you find by cklicking here, this very line!


http://www.delta.dance/2015/03/the-biggest-mistake-dancers-make/

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Happy birthday!

A new trend is growing - this is not the first invitation!  :)

Saturday, January 16, 2016 is my birthday.
I will have a small event of some sort, wil arrange it after xx and I has arrived to Buenos Aires on Monday 11/1

So ... you're invited to come and celebrate with me




A tango film about why we dance

  https://youtu.be/QFs1VGbTnls