Editorial
This is has been a challenging and exciting few months. As many of you know, I have
been on a tour of milongas in Europe and North America. I expect to continue to the
West Coast of the USA and Canada, this year, before returning to Europe. While on
this tour many people have suggested that I should organize trips for others to visit
the milongas that I have been to.
Well, we we tried.
Together with co-host, Anne Marie Desser, we tried to organize a fiv-day tango tour
of Manhattan. It turns out that tours are very different from milongas, festivals, mara-
thon or encuentroa. They have their own unique character and economics.
The concept is to immerse the guests into the local tango scene and environment, by
introducing the to the milongas, schools and instructors in the area. Pur intention is
to customize the tour to the needs of the attendees, by finding them classes and.or in-
structors that are suited to their needs. This is in addition to attending seven milongas
in five days, as well as an outdoor morning practica to get you going. And, all of this
will be happening in Manhattan. We will try again, some day when we can find a less
expensive way to do it.
We have long wanted to produce a special edition of MTW dedicated to tango in Mos-
cow. Polina Yegurnova has offered to edit this edition. She has been living in Moscow
since 2011. Educated in advertising and graphic design, she has worked as a fashion
illustrator, journalist and editor.
She began studying tango in 2012, and dances both as a leader and as a follower. In
2015, she made her first visit to Buenos Aires, and found boundless world of tango —
the literature, the music, the rhythm of tango have their meaning in the tango culture,
not just dance. In Moscow, they had lost this most important side of tango, its sense
and spirit, Muscovites had been concentrating on how to step, how to hold the back
and how to dress.
So, she studied the history of tango in Russia and in Argentina. She found the great
world of historical studies in this sphere – monographs, essays, memoirs of the famous
researchers of tango — Carlos Vega, Horacio Ferrer, and Pavel Pichoogin. In 2016,
she and Andrey Klimovich, compiled this information and created a website, Tango
Moskva, that contains this history of tango music and tango creators It is located at:
http://www.tangomoskva.com
We hope that you enjoy reading this issue, and thank you for your ongoing support.
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Cover photo by Nicolás Fernández
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