{"id":715,"date":"2010-06-27T02:14:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T06:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laylamah.com\/blog\/?p=715"},"modified":"2010-06-27T02:27:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T06:27:09","slug":"7th-annual-boston-tango-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laylamah.com\/blog\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"7th Annual Boston Tango Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dancer friend of mine had an extra ticket available to the 7th Annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostontangofestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Tango Festival<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Celebrate Tango&#8221; show tonight, and I&#8217;m very glad I went! All together, there were five of us, four dancers, and one <em>hopefully <\/em>soon-to-be-convert! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The annual festival celebrates <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Argentine_tango\" target=\"_blank\">Argentine Tango<\/a>, which, for the uninitiated, is very different from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tango_(ballroom)\" target=\"_blank\">International Standard Ballroom Tango<\/a> (the form of tango that I compete in and perform). Argentine Tango is a very beautiful and magnificent form, with deep cultural underpinnings, and a strong connection to musicality and improvisation. I have had lots of fun dancing little bits of it at social dances in the past, and while I haven&#8217;t yet invested the time to learn it, it is something I foresee myself enjoying more and more in the future!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Guillermo Merlo &amp; Fernanda Ghi\" src=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/File?id=dg9v9cbs_104kvsjzgd_b\" alt=\"Guillermo Merlo &amp; Fernanda Ghi\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" \/>The show was really quite something to watch! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fernandaguillermo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guillermo &amp; Fernanda<\/a>&#8216;s first performance nearly brought me to tears &#8211; it was like watching a terribly sad movie, only they didn&#8217;t need to speak any words &#8211; their dancing, their emotions, their facial expressions, their body language &#8211; <em>sent tingles down my spine and through my fingertips<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It is always marvelous to be moved in such a way when sitting in an audience watching beautiful, emotional dancing. And tonight, it felt particularly special, because just last night, I myself was on a dance floor, in front of an audience, dancing and hoping to make a few people feel something special inside.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something magical about the cycle of performing and watching other people perform&#8230; it&#8217;s so inspirational! 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All together, there were five of us, four dancers, and one hopefully soon-to-be-convert! \ud83d\ude42 The annual festival celebrates Argentine Tango, which, for the uninitiated, is very different from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[122,8,28],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-argentine-tango","tag-dance","tag-tango"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/laylamah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/laylamah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/laylamah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laylamah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laylamah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/laylamah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"http:\/\/laylamah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/laylamah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laylamah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/laylamah.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}