Chicago mini tango festival part 2

April 16th
First workshop was basic milonga choreography with Maria Plazaola. Basically we learned a pattern. Although we are not supposed to dance in patterns, but for me it is still a necessary way to enlarge one's dancing vocabulary.

From Tango

And, Anna, the lady who helped Maria's teaching, wore a black and red dancing shoe combination in the milonga the night before. It was awesome!

Chicago mini tango festival April 14-17

Chicago mini tango festival. I have been to maybe one dozen of milonga by now, but for tango festival this is still my first one.


April 14th
Qian and I left Bloomington with my little green mustang later afternoon. We got there late and only caught the night milonga. To our surprise Robert and Lisa were also at the festival! Also we found that the dancing floor was quite crazy. Not it was super crowded, but basically nobody respect the line of dance... Anyway still really excited.

April 15th
Running around Chicago downtown the whole morning to sort out passport issue. Then we went to Chicago Dancing Supply to check out the tango shoes (NeoTango looks great!). It was located in a lovely neighborhood with kind of B-town's hippie feeling.
We were late for the afternoon workshop. The first one was taught by María Plazaola about turning in milonguero style.
And I just spend more than 2 hour to make this diagram...

From Tango

Hint: 后半圈其实是一个很平易实用的sacada动作。出腿时记得跟上转圈。

维护更新中……

总是以喜欢看电影的人自居，在我的无数爱好里是持续最久的了。万恶的ms移植blog消除了我近几年三四百部的电影list，虽说并没有什么信息量，但好歹也是water under the bridge啊：（不过原来也就觉得自己的评分标准总是不齐，现在正好从头开始，一部一部的重头认真积累。纯粹是为自己怀旧用，省得日后记忆都淡忘了。
解释一下电影评分系统，主要是给自己提醒。
1：按主观感受给1~5stars。1<星数<5。
2：1星=0分。每加1星加基本分20。
3：如果有娱乐/可看/消磨时间性的，加10分。
4：根据电影的出彩加分（<10）。

每次看时间总是过得很快，似乎应该随大流的感伤一下。不过想想过去的一年里却也做了很多事情，在各个方面上都觉得自己在往自己想走的方向走。一年前的这个时候，我正在去Canada的小小冒险路上。一年之后，我把名牌刻到了crazy horse的墙上，开始爬5.11的墙，在milonga上装淡定，工作和跑步也缓慢而艰难的进行。大概看来，it is a year that I won't regret for.

For myself:
To grow up is an attitude. Keep challenging yourself, and don't forget what you want to be and not to be.

Max in tango!

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