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New Jersey beckons...
Image by Ed Yourdon
Note: this photo was published in a Nov 10, 2010 blog titled "'Choose New Jersey’ is new business campaign."
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In case you had't noticed, summer is over. Fall has arrived. The air is cooler, especially in the early morning -- but also in the evening, when only a few weeks ago people would wander all over the city in shorts and tank tops. Sunset is well before 7 PM, and the sun has moved noticeably north along the New Jersey skyline.
But the tango dancers are still here - in Riverside Park, in Central Park, at the South Street Seaport, and out at the end of Pier 45, where Christopher Street runs into the Hudson River in the West Village. I was here only two weeks ago, but when I got a particular kind of photography assignment in an ICP "street photography" class ("take a series of photos in which each photo is somehow "derived" from the previous one"), I decided that the tango dancers on Pier 45 might well provide the images I needed ...
As I've pointed out in Flickr albums (here, for example), I do not dance the tango (or any other civilized form of dance), and I know little or nothing about the history, the folklore, or even the steps and rhythms of the tango. But after accidentally stumbling upon a local gathering of tango aficionados on a business trip to Washington in the summer of 2009 (see my Flickr set Last tango in Washington), I subsequently learned that there were similar informal events throughout New York City. When I got home, I searched on the Internet and found a schedule of upcoming tango events at several different NYC locations -- including Pier 45, where I made my first visit in mid-April, which led to this set of photos.
I returned in mid-July of 2010, even though I knew it would be much hotter ... and indeed, it was so hot that the music did not even begin until 6 PM. But then the dancers began to appear, one after another, until there were a couple dozen pairs of dancers filling a large space under a sheltering canopy, as the sun went down. And since it was the end of a hot summer evening, tango wasn't the only thing going on: there were people sunbathing, watching the boats on the river, playing frisbee, or simply enjoying themselves. I photographed a little of everything; you can see it in this Flickr set.
So now I've come back once again ... but with my upcoming travel schedule, including trips to places as diverse as Rochester, Camden (where these notes are being written), Rome, and Miami, I doubt that I'll have a chance return this fall. It may well be next spring before I see the dancers once again twirling and gliding across the wooden deck of Pier 45.
If you'd like to watch NYC tango dancing on your own, check out Richard Lipkin's Guide to Argentine Tango in New York City.
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