This is the first in a series of posts about how tango provides metaphors for our lives on and off the dance floor, especially as it relates to being single and/or in a relationship.
Among the 11 selections are early songs and the picturesque "Bastille Musik" from the incidental score for Strindberg's "Gustav III" (1927) as well as works from Weill's post-Berlin years: the tangos from "Marie Galante" (1934) and a couple of songs from "Johnny Johnson" (1936).
In a company blog post, Setton acknowledged that Tango needs to be "nimble" to take on its much larger rivals, and with the messaging industry now dominated by a handful of powerful players, he has his work cut out re-establishing Tango and its service, which enjoyed a meteoric rise when it burst on the scene as one of the first cross-platform video calling apps.
It's the post-punk version of "Last Tango in Paris" -- except this time, it's the woman's inflamed libido that propels the doomed affair.
When my wife, Maja, saw my post last week about seeing "Last Tango in Paris" with my parents, she reminded me of our friend Sukhdev Sandhu's terrific piece, in the London Review of Books, about his experience watching "My Beautiful Laundrette" with his family, which begins: Hanif Kureishi got me beaten up.
The SEA then took offence at a caricature of the Syrian president accompanying a report of the Tango hack story posted on The Daily Dot website.
Its Urban Dictionary entry characterises its participants as "British white girls on Twitter that post about hangovers, boys, food, Tango Ice Blasts, and generic life advice that for some reason gets thousands of retweets, usually adding an 'x' on the end for some sort of comedic value that is lost on the rest of the population/world".
In this post, he explores Kathy Davis' account of tango as a transnational practice.
27 GOTAN PROJECTLa Revancha del Tango XL, 2001 The Paris-based pair's delicious debut combined tango with laid-back post-acid house beats, evoking a more widely travelled Massive Attack.
In a message posted on Twitter on Monday, LulzSec said: "Tango down – soca.gov.uk – in the name of #AntiSec".
Next year she stars in the film Whiskey Tango Foxtrot as a journalist posted to Afghanistan, the trailer for which suggests Private Benjamin with a political conscience.
