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A Tale of Voluntary Servitude
Let's play Follow the Leader. I have had this Tale of Voluntary of Servitude available in various versions for a while. Maybe in this age of leaders and influencers its time has come. Follow the Leader is an imitation game for children : everyone lines up behind a leader and imitates whatever the leader does ; if you can't do what the leader does, you're out ; when there's only one person left, that person becomes the leader and the game starts again. Want to be a leader or a follower?
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A story to give you the shivers
I’m a weatherman. I work for the television as a matter of fact. Here's a story of something that happened to me. A story to give you the shivers. Last night's forecast said : "After today's glorious sunshine and record-breaking temperatures, the National Weather Centre announces extreme cold for tomorrow with heavy snowfalls all over the country." Hard to believe? Well, just take a look at the story.
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France Paraguay – Golden Goal 1998
This Saturday, July 4th at 11 pm, following a series of impressive victories in the group stages, France plays Paraguay for a place in the last 8 of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. It is not the first time that the two teams have met at this stage of the competition. It also happened 28 years ago during the 1998 World Cup which would make les Bleus world champions for the first time. I can still remember the winning goal very clearly. Laurent Blanc, who wasn't necessarily a player who scored goals, hit home the winner when nothing else had worked. I still carry the sense of the perfect timing…
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Come on baby, do the Locomotion
Doesn't everybody want to do the locomotion? Little Eva pointed us towards something essential when she sang The Locomotion, that classic song by Goffin & King from 1962. And she was right. Whether you're a driver or a passenger, we all love to feel that movement from where we are to where we want to be, as long as we do it nice and easy and don't lose control, with a little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul. But sometimes we do lose control. Fortunately, the driver is there to help with a reassuring announcement.
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Duo SEDA at the 2026 Roulotte Tango Festival
Here are some impressions of the encounter between music and dance at the concert given on Thursday May 14th by the duo Daniel Godfrid & Sebastián Espósito, performing under the stage-name of SEDA. The concert took place in the auditorium of the Maison de la Culture at Green Firminy designed by the architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known by the stage-name of Le Corbusier.
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Danzarin and the Search for the Perfect Partner
Her name was Danzarin, a tango dancer. She was looking for the perfect partner in her own special way. She had seen Julián before.
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Tango singer Alberto Castillo mentioned with Thievery Corporation by Gotan Project
Two more artists named together in a song by Gotan Project. At first hearing, tango singer Alberto Castillo from Buenos Aires and the electro duo Thievery Corporation from Washington DC would seem to be worlds apart. Both are products of the life and musical cultures in the capital cities of their respective home-countries. Beneath the surface of smooth performance there lies a rebellious spirit. Want to know more? Take a closer look at this final post in a series of five exploring the stories behind the famous names mentioned in the lyrics to Chunga's Revenge by Gotan Project on their debut album La Revancha del Tango. Fun facts and some…
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Roots laid bare on the limestone plateau of Leucate
Since 2025, the trees in the Aude region of France have paid a high price for extreme weather and climate events. The other day, we followed an unexplored track on the plateau of Leucate in order to leave the main road where everyone else was walking. The path was easy to follow until we came upon an obstacle in the form of an uprooted tree lying stretched out on its side as if it had fallen into a deep sleep, thrown down by Storm Nils on 12 February 2026. More than two months later, none had dared awaken the sleeping giant.
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Dipi Kvitko, tango guitar concert in Toulouse
The guitar has special status in Argentina, and the standard of playing there continues to impress. Diego "Dipi" Kvitko, who lives and works in Buenos Aires, figures currently as one the most respected guitarists in tango. His knowledge of the repertoire and his musicianship speak for themselves. In late March 2026 he came to Toulouse to play two concerts as part of his famous duo with the singer Walter "Chino" Laborde. The evening before these public events in the town centre he also played a solo house concert for an invited audience where he shared the inventiveness and musical sense which have made his reputation. I was lucky enough to…
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Communicating in a foreign language means constantly inventing
Speaking is a creative process, but language learners sometimes need encouragement to let it happen. Here is the story of 3 lessons which made a curiously quiet class of 17-18 year-olds talkative. This is the last of 6 articles based on learning activities to give confidence when speaking developed in direct response to things people say about what makes speaking so hard.
