I also recently posted a status update on Facebook that read something like this: ".uh, I dunno.something like "looking forward to the day when I can NOT think about tango". I'm still trying to wrap my head around what's going on in my head. I suppose I'm maturing in my tango - or focusing on higher priorities in life - or a combination of the two. I've even pondered the possibility that my tango fix may take the form of a trip to Buenos Aires every four or five years. Lamenting to myself or convincing myself. I've been lamenting to myself that if I am able to dance a few times locally each year once or twice a year at a festival, or every two years - that will be enough. Delving into the why's and science and psychology of it.another time. Aspen is, or was, a close embrace community, much like Denver. My teacher in Aspen taught us close embrace almost from the get-go.
I can see the former very clearly, and I am hopeful the latter does hold to be true over time.įor me, I have absolutely no use for open embrace tango. I needed to hear that there is no close without open, and no open without close. Susana's essay came along at just the right time for me. I was telling my close friend Rigoberto the other day that "I think about tango every day, but I rarely dance anymore.". Not so much distinct phases of development, but the continuous evolution of a person and the tango in their life and soul. close, and her lucid brevity in verbalizing the various growth phases of tango. But that's not what really resonated with me in reading this. So, I'll freely admit that I machete'd her words to draw in a few more readers. If tango entrenches itself in one style we’ll end up alone, dancing a virtual tango, seated in front of our computer, and we’ll lose its essence: the risk of both enjoying and suffering with someone else in your arms. I was reading Susana Miller's essay "Tango Abierto y Tango Milonguero" and the last line plucked me like a guitar string.
Please accept my apologies for the sensationalist headline. Seith and CONiKA’s “Introspections” premieres at the 2021 Fringe North International Theatre Festival alongside Eleanor Drury Children’s Theatre’s production of “On The Great Wind’s Back”, Avery McMillan and Lindrena Newbery’s one-act detective comedy “The Vinyl Problem”, PointeTango’s film “Tango in the Dark”, and much more.Here's an unpublished draft from July 3, 2010.no not that suffering.not suffering like it's a really bad dance suffering.but suffering suffering.human condition type shit.at least that's how I'm choosing to interpret it.Ġ2/28/18 note.I'm dancing a whole helluvalot more tango abierto with The Divine Miss Sugar G.and having a helluvalot'o fun.hell, I might even end up buying some white tango shoes.(grin). We’ve been in hibernate mode for a minute now, but if you do so oblige, maybe clap your hands and sway to it. Seith: “Regardless who attends, we are still doin’ our thing. With plenty of time in recent years to experience big changes, let alone a pandemic, I am demonstrating a portion of the new perspective gained with this track.” As I often find, this concept, at this precise time, with this precise DJ, divinely aligned with life experience that needed to be released into music. We got together and she wrote the second verse as I was figuring out my patterns for the music, and then we just hit record and let it flow.”ĬONiKA: “When Seith reached out to propose the idea, it was an instant sense of joy, and relief followed by that delicious spark of creativity.
I just called CONiKA up, floated the concept by her, and a couple days later she had most of the words down and out. Seith: “The performance of “Introspection” is an on-the-fly style recording, with a fly-on-the-wall approach to the presentation. Since then, CONiKA has been working on new material and live performance, while Seith has been creating and releasing music on cassette tape, such as his instrumental hip-hop album “Action Figures” and his current project Seith’s Tape Club. This marks the first time the duo has performed live since 2017’s 10-year anniversary celebration of The Soo York City Urban Arts Collective. The performance of a brand new song titled “Introspection” will debut at the 2021 Fringe North International Theatre Festival, happening August 19th to the 22nd. After a few years off to work on solo projects, DJ Seith and emcee-vocalist CONiKA are back with a new musical routine.