Pampa and Circumstance by Marco Castellani
Once in a while, we commit the honour of the opening article to our less distinguished contributor who, as usual, ventures upon a feat greater than him: the Tango guitar story. A Robert Fripp's faithful imitator in his childhood, a Derek Bailey's follower in his adolescence, an accidental entertainer with non-fireproof instruments in several bonfires at adriatic riviera, Marco Castellani restores the handcrafted univers of Rio de la Plata guitarists, always in the balance between the telluric Pampa of Folklore and the metropolitan Circumstance of Tango, in a study which was published, and inexplicably repayed, by the prestigious music magazine Amadeus.

A Gardel hay que escucharlo en la vitrola by Julio Cortazar
At last, The day's tour in eighty worlds, our favourite Julio Cortazar's book, has been translated in Italy too. From this hilarious almanac, we report a short article about Carlos Gardel, which was originally published in 1953 on the "Sur" magazine. Founded by Victoria Ocampo, the magazine was directed at that time by Jorge Luis Borges, who was the first one to notice the great Julio.

Hoy bandoneòn hoy by César Stroscio
This is the last part of the bandoneòn's story according to César Stroscio, one of those who made it and keep making it. The relationship between tango and poetry, between tango and reality and between tango and technique in the great bandoneonist/poet's reflections.

Pasolini is not the poetry by Franco Fortini
We would like to commemorate Pier Paolo Pasolini, in the thirtieth anniversary of his tragic death and while so many intellectuals elbow their way to ecroach on his words, with an article by the major and most competent among his critics: Franco Fortini. We don't have, comrades, to put in poets the trust we must put in poetry.

Desequilibrados by Juan Sasturain
Another "lost case" for the very fallible porteño detective Robledo, who here grapples with a small circus which is as stale as a poorhouse cake. Will Robledo be able to get El Gran Whipper, lion-tamer and manager, out of trouble?

Notes on the gesture by Giorgio Agamben
Two consecutive essays that take their cues from the Honoré de Balzac's Theory of walking, a burning issue for all tango dancers. The first one, by pholosopher Giorgio Agamben, considers the gesture as a communication of a communicability. If dance is also gesture, it is it as endurance and exhibition of mediality, it shows the movement as such. How right he is: by dancing i show the dance, a movement which has, as such, nothing else to say. Too bad that anybody who's nothing to say, say it on a stage. This essay is also of some merit because it lets us know the tourettism, or the syndrome affecting many dancers we are acquainted with.

More or less literary steps by Felice Accame
Second study on walking. Professor Accame takes up one of the several professional biases that affect the dancers inside and outside the ballrooms. He establishes a connection among Flaubert, Proust, doctor Scholl and the unforgettable as much as inefective Dr. Ciccarell's corn-plaster.